Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Joe (24 Lists)



Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 7,003 voters
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Pastures of Steinbeck
40 books — 19 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
252 books — 568 voters
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Gothic Literature
337 books — 498 voters

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
World's Greatest Novellas
712 books — 1,441 voters
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
HBO's True Detective
123 books — 114 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,089 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Larry McCaffery: The 20th Century's Greatest Hits (English Language)
106 books — 51 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
BURGESS' 99 BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NOVELS
99 books — 39 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
100 best novels - modern library
165 books — 109 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A Journey Through Literary America
153 books — 220 voters
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
"Which are some of the most thought provoking books you've ever read?" A post from Reddit.com
14 books — 14 voters

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Reddit Awe Inducing Books
74 books — 11 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Reddit Recommendations
577 books — 762 voters

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
(Not) Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
100 books — 159 voters
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Best of William Faulkner
85 books — 64 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,711 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 991 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Postmodern Genius
506 books — 583 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 632 voters

Ubik by Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best of Philip K. Dick
88 books — 407 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Cormac McCarthy Books
17 books — 182 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovPnin by Vladimir NabokovDespair by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Nabokov Novel
19 books — 26 voters
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
9 books — 261 voters