Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Susan E (19 Lists)



A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithTales of the City by Armistead MaupinLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
PBS’s The Great American Read: List of America’s Top 100 Books
100 books — 2,372 voters
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix SweeneyEvicted by Matthew Desmond
Best Books of 2016
1,822 books — 2,784 voters

Point of Honour by Madeleine E. Robins
Best Historical Mystery
2,372 books — 5,191 voters
Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna LandvikThe Secret Keeper by Kate MortonThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerP.S. I Love You by Cecelia AhernDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Best Women's Fiction Novels
2,180 books — 1,830 voters

The Gilded Hour by Sara DonatiAll the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana TrigianiA God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Historical Fiction 2015
440 books — 2,143 voters
An Assembly Such as This by Pamela AidanDuty and Desire by Pamela AidanThese Three Remain by Pamela AidanMr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda BerdollDarcy & Elizabeth by Linda Berdoll
Best Jane Austen FanFiction
715 books — 1,010 voters

Villette by Charlotte BrontëThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxWicked by Gregory Maguire
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,746 books — 13,316 voters
Wideacre by Philippa GregoryThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Worst Books of All Time
8,129 books — 19,915 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,103 books — 5,931 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Best for Book Clubs
15,757 books — 20,595 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Road to Avalon by Joan WolfGuinevere by Sharan NewmanGuenevere, Queen of the Summer Country by Rosalind MilesChild of the Northern Spring by Persia Woolley
Best Arthurian Fiction
484 books — 1,464 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerWater for Elephants by Sara GruenAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Books You Would Recommend to Strangers
13,402 books — 8,894 voters

Son of the Shadows by Juliet MarillierThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Best Female Lead Characters
4,949 books — 6,406 voters
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlancFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,539 books — 8,281 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,399 books — 4,740 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,258 books — 126,243 voters

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Best Time-Travel Romance Novels
1,073 books — 4,320 voters
Into the Wilderness by Sara DonatiDragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Best Historical Fiction
8,407 books — 27,584 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,687 books — 12,618 voters