Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lisa (31 Lists)



Mahabharata by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaRamayana by VālmīkiThe Mahabharata by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaThe Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Best Indian Fiction Books
941 books — 2,465 voters
The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenWolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Goodreads 21st Century Literature Group - Most Important Books of the 21st Century
203 books — 233 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Road by Cormac McCarthyWellness by Nathan Hill
Best Literary Fiction of 21st Century
674 books — 317 voters
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
601 books — 2,064 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Red and the Black by Stendhal
Hemingway's List
16 books — 3 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyFinnegans Wake by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleUlysses by James JoyceThe Nibelungenlied by Unknown
Pompous Books to Read in Public
270 books — 161 voters

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Literary thrillers
157 books — 97 voters
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Boxall's 1001 overlap with Guardian's 1000
150 books — 4 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
1,023 books — 610 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisBattle Royale by Koushun Takami
Quality Dark Fiction
2,794 books — 4,198 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Adult Dystopian Books
149 books — 257 voters
Meneer Beerta by J.J. VoskuilDe morgenster by Karl Ove KnausgårdVuile handen by J.J. Voskuil
2022: What People Born in the 1980's are reading in 2022
1,150 books — 69 voters

Ik ben er niet by Lize SpitThe Mahabharata by Ramesh MenonDe pest by Albert CamusDucks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannHet smelt by Lize Spit
2021: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2021
1,316 books — 134 voters
Ik ben er niet by Lize SpitThe Mahabharata by Ramesh MenonDe pest by Albert CamusDucks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannHet smelt by Lize Spit
2021: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,537 books — 165 voters

Meneer Beerta by J.J. VoskuilVuile handen by J.J. VoskuilDe morgenster by Karl Ove Knausgård
2022: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,331 books — 138 voters
Het achtste leven by Nino HaratischwiliWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëMeneer Beerta by J.J. VoskuilDe uitvreter, Titaantjes, Dichtertje by NescioHet verhaal van de dienstmaagd by Margaret Atwood
Best of FNL 2021
328 books — 65 voters

1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
One Million Ratings!
257 books — 1,103 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,816 books — 22,876 voters

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
What We've Read So Far in 2018
6,547 books — 772 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Huffington Post: 12 Books You NEED On Your Bookshelf
12 books — 36 voters

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Indian Books - Fiction
1,145 books — 2,487 voters
Ulysses by James Joyce
Thickest Books Ever
896 books — 2,496 voters

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
What Women Born in the 80s are Reading in 2016
764 books — 90 voters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodWatchmen by Alan Moore
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,320 books — 2,450 voters

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,132 books — 3,697 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëBrave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,258 books — 126,259 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerWater for Elephants by Sara GruenDune by Frank HerbertDucks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Huh? I Thought That Book Would Be Better Than It Was
878 books — 748 voters
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Bad / overrated Hipster Literature
30 books — 11 voters


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