Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Craig (37 Lists)



1984 by George OrwellCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyHamlet by William ShakespeareAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,711 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThank You, Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseDecline and Fall by Evelyn WaughCandide by Voltaire
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,406 books — 2,255 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnimal Farm by George Orwell
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,321 books — 5,835 voters
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
James Joyce Reading List
51 books — 38 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Larry McCaffery: The 20th Century's Greatest Hits (English Language)
106 books — 51 voters
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Best Books You've Never Heard Of
1,266 books — 791 voters

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Now That's REALLY Freakin' Weird...
714 books — 554 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Boat Books
772 books — 501 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassThe Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay GouldCows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches by Marvin Harris
Essential Non-Fiction Reading Re: Human Rights
624 books — 418 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 363 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov1984 by George Orwell
Most Disturbing Books
252 books — 239 voters
Night by Elie WieselA Light in the Attic by Shel SilversteinBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,616 books — 11,179 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George Orwell
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,286 books — 10,015 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë1984 by George OrwellMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Beginning of a Novel
148 books — 171 voters

The Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John ClelandClarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel RichardsonJacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,008 voters
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri by Dante AlighieriDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 890 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyDead Souls by Nikolai GogolNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 498 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Size Doesn't Matter - The Long and Large Classics of Literature
304 books — 399 voters

The Outsiders by S.E. HintonNicholas Nickleby by Charles DickensTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Characters We Wish Existed
1,036 books — 776 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Good Books for Men
31 books — 21 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,392 books — 119,636 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Dystopia!
1,220 books — 2,755 voters

1984 by George OrwellLolita by Vladimir NabokovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 991 voters
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareComplete Poems by Edgar Allan PoeLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan ThomasThe Complete Poems by William Blake
Goodreads Top 100 Poems of All Time
258 books — 231 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeOthello by William ShakespeareA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
415 books — 435 voters
Blink by Malcolm GladwellWalden Two by B.F. SkinnerThe Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay GouldThe Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Greatest Psychology Books
793 books — 1,333 voters

The Outsiders by S.E. HintonA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Young Adult Books
13,098 books — 80,148 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton TrumboThe 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de SadeBlindness by José Saramago
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,186 books — 11,243 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftBleak House by Charles DickensBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best British and Irish Literature
1,167 books — 1,111 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyClarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel RichardsonAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,490 voters


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