Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lori (16 Lists)



A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodToo Much Happiness by Alice MunroThe Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Belli
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,207 books — 28,379 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,896 voters

The Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Fencing fiction
157 books — 237 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAnimal Farm by George OrwellRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books Ever
80,175 books — 299,027 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLa casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García LorcaThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,103 books — 646 voters
The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2011
612 books — 1,708 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,247 books — 2,095 voters
La mujer habitada by Gioconda BelliEl beso de la mujer araña by Manuel PuigLa casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García LorcaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCuentos de amor de locura y de muerte by Horacio Quiroga
Libros en Español
754 books — 658 voters

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Latin American Fiction
904 books — 1,228 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Best Humorous Books
4,514 books — 8,396 voters

The Shack by William Paul Young
The Worst Books of All Time
8,129 books — 19,915 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Historical Fiction
8,406 books — 27,600 voters

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniWhy Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel TatumThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood"They Take Our Jobs!" by Aviva Chomsky
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,280 books — 1,805 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Pearl by John SteinbeckOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,261 books — 126,277 voters