Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by James (14 Lists)



Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyUlysses by James JoyceShantaram by Gregory David RobertsIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,490 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Best Historical Fiction
7,316 books — 25,514 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books About Loving Books
374 books — 514 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir NabokovNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyDoctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,277 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.1984 by George Orwell
Sword and Laser Science Fiction list
1,102 books — 1,773 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Road by Cormac McCarthyCloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,192 books — 8,923 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckSiddhartha by Hermann HesseLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 566 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,392 books — 119,640 voters

1984 by George Orwell
Books that leave you disturbed
555 books — 514 voters
The Notebook by Nicholas SparksA Walk to Remember by Nicholas SparksTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumDarkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,132 books — 10,101 voters

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
Most anticipated books of 2014
2,183 books — 9,127 voters
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 818 voters

Siddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Best Books Ever
75,727 books — 281,563 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,589 books — 13,119 voters