Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Joe-Lin Kohn (19 Lists)



The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Best Books of 2017
1,734 books — 3,081 voters
Becoming by Michelle ObamaThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Best Books of 2018
1,649 books — 2,957 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe 5 Love Languages by Gary ChapmanPacking for Mars by Mary Roach
Recommended Nonfiction Books
3,942 books — 1,848 voters
The Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketThe Reptile Room by Lemony SnicketDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
Best Books of 1999
518 books — 262 voters

The Martian by Andy WeirReady Player One by Ernest ClineMaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Science Fiction - 2010-2019
548 books — 781 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Road by Cormac McCarthyCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Apocalyptic or Post-Apocalyptic YA Fiction
347 books — 757 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Best Books Ever
75,777 books — 281,602 voters
Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnRoom by Emma DonoghueEleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,635 books — 14,139 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferAtonement by Ian McEwan
Best Historical Fiction
7,317 books — 25,516 voters
Deception Point by Dan BrownAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Conspiracy Fiction
1,275 books — 1,316 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Help by Kathryn StockettExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Books that scored a five by me
9,427 books — 2,344 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Road by Cormac McCarthyLord of the Flies by William GoldingExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,355 books — 14,503 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownDeception Point by Dan Brown
Thrillers
4,578 books — 5,573 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingAbout a Boy by Nick HornbyBridget Jones by Helen Fielding
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,676 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Everyone's Read It But Me
800 books — 4,329 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Books You Must Read!
11,309 books — 7,189 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Help by Kathryn StockettMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,374 voters
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,771 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,394 books — 119,646 voters