Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by apursansar (8 Lists)



Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettEndgame by Samuel BeckettHappy Days by Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel BeckettRhinoceros and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco
Theatre of the Absurd
16 books — 4 voters
Snow Country by Yasunari KawabataThe Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō TanizakiThe Wild Geese by Ōgai MoriLight and Darkness by Natsume SōsekiRashomon by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Asian Literature
64 books — 9 voters

Snow Country by Yasunari KawabataKokoro by Natsume SōsekiThe Silent Cry by Kenzaburō ŌeThe Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari KawabataRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese authors
236 books — 173 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesGrande Sertão by João Guimarães RosaSobre héroes y tumbas by Ernesto SabatoLa vida breve by Juan Carlos Onetti
Latin American Fiction
863 books — 1,155 voters

The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilSelected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich HölderlinThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 954 voters
The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilUlysses by James JoyceSwann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,771 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Historical Fiction
7,316 books — 25,514 voters
The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Best Books Ever
75,727 books — 281,563 voters