Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Iamthesword (18 Lists)



The Investigation by Peter WeissThe Visit by Friedrich DürrenmattThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Zoo Story by Edward AlbeeA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Best Plays Ever
853 books — 1,127 voters
The Empusium by Olga TokarczukAfterlives by Abdulrazak GurnahCheri by Jo Ann BeardLichtspiel by Daniel KehlmannBannmeilen. Ein Roman in Streifzügen by Anne Weber
Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
2,909 books — 5,285 voters

Ansichten eines Clowns by Heinrich BöllDie Physiker by Friedrich DürrenmattDie Blechtrommel by Günter GrassDie Klavierspielerin by Elfriede JelinekTauben im Gras by Wolfgang Koeppen
All Georg Büchner Prize winners
71 books — 3 voters
Echtzeitalter by Tonio Schachinger
Preisträger Deutscher Buchpreis
20 books — 6 voters

The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas RijneveldKairos by Jenny ErpenbeckThe Vegetarian by Han Kang
International Booker Prize Winners (since 2016)
9 books — 5 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroWolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters

Chanson douce by Leïla SlimaniLa Plus secrète mémoire des hommes by Mohamed Mbougar SarrL'Ordre du jour by Éric VuillardThe Lover by Marguerite Duras
Prix Goncourt Laureates
64 books — 41 voters
Der Prozess by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaFaust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Judenbuche by Annette von Droste-HülshoffHomo Faber by Max Frisch
Books we read in a German Gymnasium
151 books — 80 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Plague by Albert CamusLandlocked by Doris LessingChronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 566 voters
L'Indicible by Manu LarcenetL'Autre by Manu LarcenetGrasse Carcasse by Manu LarcenetL'Apocalypse selon Saint Jacky by Manu LarcenetLa Tête la première by Manu Larcenet
Best Graphic Novels
3,456 books — 6,764 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald1984 by George OrwellThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
625 books — 2,756 voters
The Trial by Franz KafkaThe Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century
17 books — 26 voters

Tyll by Daniel KehlmannImperium by Christian KrachtLichtspiel by Daniel Kehlmannpech und blende by Lutz SeilerThe Dead by Christian Kracht
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature of the 21st Century
197 books — 113 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Radetzky March by Joseph RothThe Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 954 voters

The Trial by Franz KafkaRadetzkymarsch by Joseph RothDer Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Dürrenmattعقاید یک دلقک by Heinrich BöllDer Untertan by Heinrich Mann
German Classics
226 books — 149 voters
Der Proceß by Franz KafkaRadetzkymarsch by Joseph RothMan of Straw by Heinrich MannThe Clown by Heinrich BöllDer Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Best German Authors
606 books — 703 voters

The Trial by Franz Kafka1984 by George OrwellThe Radetzky March by Joseph RothBeerholms Vorstellung by Daniel KehlmannDer Untertan by Heinrich Mann
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,771 voters
The Trial by Franz Kafka1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Visit by Friedrich DürrenmattThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,392 books — 119,637 voters