Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by marie (27 Lists)



The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
Best Canadian Literature
2,369 books — 1,180 voters
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
166 books — 696 voters

The Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenLes Misérables by Victor Hugo
Best Books Ever
80,169 books — 298,975 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,399 books — 4,740 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe End of October by Lawrence Wright
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,160 books — 27,054 voters
11/22/63 by Stephen KingDoomsday Book by Connie WillisBlackout by Connie WillisAll Clear by Connie WillisThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,273 books — 5,582 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Books I Read for School and Ended Up Loving
238 books — 322 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Best South Asian Fiction
772 books — 1,965 voters

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleRebecca by Daphne du MaurierA Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Required Reading in High School
826 books — 1,324 voters
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Pacific Northwest Books
963 books — 713 voters

The Heart of the Matter by Graham GreeneKing Henry IV, Part 1 by William ShakespeareSilas Marner by George EliotHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
469 books — 1,600 voters
River of the Wolves by Stephen W. MeaderAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
What Book Got You Hooked?
4,465 books — 11,080 voters

The Prince of Tides by Pat ConroyThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Books that evoke the South
483 books — 158 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best French Literature
832 books — 1,583 voters

A Painted House by John GrishamThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
books with compelling young narrators
221 books — 176 voters
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonaldAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Canadian Fiction
1,042 books — 610 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,816 books — 22,875 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceCatch-22 by Joseph HellerLolita by Vladimir NabokovOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,746 books — 13,316 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,895 books — 27,133 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,745 books — 6,939 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingWhere the Heart Is by Billie LettsThe Firm by Robin Waterfield
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,657 books — 18,680 voters
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. SeussWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Voices & Sounds - Best Read Alouds for Young Children
999 books — 920 voters

The Sunfood Diet Success System by David Wolfe
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,270 books — 1,715 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Best Historical Fiction
8,407 books — 27,584 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,207 books — 28,379 voters
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,894 voters

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Worst Books of All Time
8,129 books — 19,915 voters