Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dave Russell (17 Lists)



Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
The Jewish American Experience
78 books — 46 voters
Mercy of a Rude Stream by Henry Roth
What should be my first book of 2016
17 books — 42 voters

Middlemarch by George EliotMy Ántonia by Willa CatherTurn, Magic Wheel by Dawn PowellTwo Serious Ladies by Jane BowlesMachinal by Sophie Treadwell
Best Books by Female Authors
1,362 books — 464 voters
The Eden Express by Mark VonnegutSpeak, Memory by Vladimir NabokovUlysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. GrantYou Can't Win by Jack BlackWest with the Night by Beryl Markham
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,087 books — 1,938 voters

Hard Rain Falling by Don CarpenterThe Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 890 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
ONE DAY Best Summer Reads
1,666 books — 5,993 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Required Reading in High School
813 books — 1,284 voters
The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonPick-Up by Charles WillefordShoot the Piano Player by David GoodisThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,305 books — 15,550 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Cherry Orchard by Anton ChekhovThe Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,277 voters
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay GouldThe Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two by Karl PopperHomage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,064 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCall It Sleep by Henry RothLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Books Ever
75,727 books — 281,558 voters
Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. GrantSpeak, Memory by Vladimir NabokovWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamSomething Like an Autobiography by Akira KurosawaBlack Boy by Richard Wright
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,788 books — 6,321 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,730 books — 25,951 voters
A Shropshire Lad by A.E. HousmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareOdes and Epodes by Horatius
Best Poetry Books
2,976 books — 2,417 voters

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede JelinekAnthem by Ayn RandA Bend in the River by V.S. NaipaulAn Imaginative Experience by Mary Wesley
The Worst Books of All Time
8,100 books — 19,874 voters
What Mad Universe by Fredric BrownThe Space Merchants by Frederik PohlThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickChildhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeMore Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,324 books — 24,565 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldCall It Sleep by Henry RothLolita by Vladimir NabokovBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyTender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,771 voters