Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Julie (95 Lists)



Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Best Southern Books
842 books — 750 voters
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Honourable Schoolboy by John le CarréAdvise and Consent by Allen Drury
Political Thrillers
574 books — 772 voters

Time to Be in Earnest by P.D. James
Best Books of 1999
525 books — 271 voters
Poisonville by Massimo Carlotto
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
787 books — 1,064 voters

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaSeize the Day by Saul BellowThe Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,166 books — 1,525 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelStory of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
Best historical fiction novels
1,306 books — 1,409 voters

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Books I Became So Obsessed With I Stopped Everything Else in My Life to Finish.
13,174 books — 10,871 voters
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
When the cable is out and Summer is about; Maribeth's Summer of 52 books
34 books — 13 voters

The Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukThe Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Nautical Novels
442 books — 356 voters
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italy
1,048 books — 555 voters

Saturday by Ian McEwan84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Books Set in London
790 books — 321 voters
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Best Lesser-Known Books
1,722 books — 1,116 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyUlysses by James JoyceThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Size Doesn't Matter - The Long and Large Classics of Literature
306 books — 399 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantShōgun by James Clavell
Best Historical Fiction
8,407 books — 27,582 voters

Miles to Go by Miley CyrusThe Secret by Rhonda ByrneGoing Rogue by Sarah PalinDianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,609 books — 5,998 voters
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddSpecial Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha PesslWhite Noise by Don DeLilloFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Disappointing Books
2,779 books — 4,670 voters

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Light but not (too) dumb
858 books — 846 voters
Snow by Orhan PamukGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Abandoned Books
1,477 books — 1,469 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryShōgun by James ClavellKing Rat by James ClavellMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Books on Asia
1,007 books — 840 voters
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliThe Hot Zone by Richard PrestonThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouzأولاد حارتنا by Naguib Mahfouz
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,920 books — 1,817 voters

Smiley's People by John le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Kill Artist by Daniel SilvaTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Espionage
1,049 books — 1,131 voters
Earthly Powers by Anthony BurgessIn This House of Brede by Rumer GoddenYear of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Vicars, Priests, Abbots, Fathers, Abbesses, Pastors, Nuns
827 books — 305 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantUlysses by James JoyceAnimal Farm by George OrwellTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
books that should not be on the worst books of all time list
55 books — 77 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieStaying On by Paul ScottInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
India: Fiction
323 books — 332 voters

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Umbrellas
497 books — 201 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukKing Rat by James Clavell
World War II Fiction
1,519 books — 2,321 voters

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Books 1954
120 books — 59 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessKing Rat by James ClavellThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Best Books 1962
146 books — 94 voters

The Honourable Schoolboy by John le CarréThe Women's Room by Marilyn French
Best Books 1977
200 books — 63 voters
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayPat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
Best of 1940
48 books — 30 voters


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