Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ryan Jay (8 Lists)



Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
601 books — 2,065 voters
Cosmopolis by Don DeLilloLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,657 books — 18,680 voters

The Box Man by Kōbō AbeSecret Rendezvous by Kōbō Abe
Best Japanese Books
720 books — 3,271 voters
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesSeven Nights by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Best New Directions Books
260 books — 179 voters

Dead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
501 books — 2,311 voters
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
Deferred Gratification: 2011's Most Eagerly Awaited New Books
126 books — 374 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,257 books — 126,231 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Best Books Ever
80,174 books — 298,960 voters