Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

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



This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarI Am Legend by Richard MathesonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Audiobooks Under 8 Hours
104 books — 12 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodWool Omnibus by Hugh HoweyStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelThe Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,318 books — 3,623 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Books Set in Scotland
1,115 books — 703 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Boxall's 1001 overlap with Guardian's 1000
150 books — 4 voters

Murphy by Samuel BeckettReveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques RousseauSummer in Baden-Baden by Leonid TsypkinBlack Box by Amos OzThe Last World by Christoph Ransmayr
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,322 books — 5,916 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyLolita by Vladimir NabokovFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe World According to Garp by John Irving
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
16,313 books — 19,446 voters

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Black History Month
568 books — 504 voters
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Knock-out Novelettes - Novellas
383 books — 303 voters

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The Complete Shakespeare
53 books — 32 voters
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonIndependent People by Halldór Laxness
Best Underrated/Overlooked Classics
186 books — 96 voters

1984 by George OrwellA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareHomegoing by Yaa GyasiLord of the Flies by William Golding
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
632 books — 2,779 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Most Overrated Books
714 books — 666 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Huh? I Thought That Book Would Be Better Than It Was
878 books — 748 voters
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingFifty Shades Darker by E.L. JamesFifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
Popular Books that Annoy You
994 books — 2,007 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodYol by Cormac McCarthyWool Omnibus by Hugh HoweyOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,146 books — 27,052 voters
Beowulf by Seamus HeaneyThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen CraneThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
469 books — 1,601 voters

Independent People by Halldór LaxnessLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky1984 by George Orwell
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,707 voters