Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Daniel (17 Lists)



Blankets by Craig ThompsonWatchmen by Alan MooreThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiGhost World by Daniel ClowesDeath Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba
Best Graphic Novels
3,534 books — 6,888 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,756 voters

Crow by Ted HughesCollected Poems by Philip LarkinLove is a dog from Hell by Charles BukowskiNo me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo by José Emilio PachecoCollected Poems by W.H. Auden
Best Poetry Books
3,131 books — 2,868 voters
1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBlindness by José SaramagoBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyYol by Cormac McCarthy
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,160 books — 27,052 voters

Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters
Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoEl llano en llamas by Juan RulfoLos pasos de López by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Mexican Literature
394 books — 233 voters

The Double by José Saramago
Doppelgängers
176 books — 121 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Writers who committed suicide
539 books — 291 voters

Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesDead Souls by Nikolai GogolBlindness by José SaramagoCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,707 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyAtonement by Ian McEwanNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,816 books — 22,876 voters

Ways of Dying by Zakes MdaThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeWaiting for the Barbarians by J.M. CoetzeeThe Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,921 books — 1,818 voters
Ways of Dying by Zakes MdaWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinBeauty and Sadness by Yasunari KawabataThe Toy Collector by James Gunn
Great Underrated and Obscure Books
777 books — 233 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleBlindness by José SaramagoInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 983 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Darkest Books of All Time
1,313 books — 1,687 voters

Pan by Knut HamsunA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
551 books — 1,918 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,879 books — 7,005 voters

Paradise Lost by John MiltonThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,747 books — 13,317 voters