Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

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



The Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneThe Honorary Consul by Graham GreeneThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
Best Graham Greene novels
25 books — 205 voters
Bleak House by Charles DickensAnathem by Neal StephensonA Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,584 books — 13,113 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussThe Odyssey by Homer
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,383 books — 119,613 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensIslands in the Stream by Ernest HemingwayFar Tortuga by Peter MatthiessenAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueGorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,616 books — 11,177 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
Best French Literature
870 books — 1,552 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraGallipoli by Alan Moorehead
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,386 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,490 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Highbrow Fantasy Books
418 books — 623 voters

Stalingrad by Antony BeevorGallipoli by Alan Moorehead
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,110 books — 2,343 voters
The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.Blackfeet and Buffalo by James Willard SchultzYoung Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
Best Montana Books
409 books — 232 voters

Battlefield Earth by L. Ron HubbardLife of Pi by Yann Martel
The Worst Books of All Time
8,100 books — 19,874 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynStories and Prose Poems by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Russian Social History
291 books — 86 voters

The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueFar Tortuga by Peter MatthiessenGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,768 voters
Angel in the Whirlwind by Benson BobrickMayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best American History Books
2,110 books — 2,478 voters