Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Brian (20 Lists)



Child of God by Cormac McCarthyInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
891 books — 970 voters
Going Rogue by Sarah Palin
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,263 books — 11,775 voters

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Set in Appalachia
806 books — 856 voters
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest HemingwayCollected Stories of William Faulkner by William FaulknerFull Dark, No Stars by Stephen KingThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Short Stories
1,803 books — 1,132 voters

Child of God by Cormac McCarthyLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistNight of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David AndersonFull Dark, No Stars by Stephen KingJohannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
I Had No Idea This Book Would Be So Good
8,424 books — 3,185 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreV for Vendetta by Alan MooreBatman by Frank MillerBatman by Frank MillerBatman by Alan Moore
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,244 books — 2,031 voters

Going Rogue by Sarah Palin
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,236 books — 4,033 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukWatchmen by Alan MooreI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Twists
8,992 books — 10,290 voters

10 a Boot Stomping 20 a Human Face 30 Goto 10 by Jess Gulbranson
Urban Fantasy With Male Lead Characters
1,027 books — 1,429 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceBeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
267 books — 373 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganIn Search of Schrödinger's Cat by John Gribbin
Best General Science Books
599 books — 556 voters
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen W. HawkingSix Easy Pieces by Richard P. FeynmanThe Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
2,036 books — 3,739 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Books I Regret Reading
2,313 books — 3,219 voters
Loath Letters by Christy Leigh StewartHaunted by Chuck PalahniukGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterOuter Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Different Perspective Books
268 books — 210 voters

Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
SCARIEST BOOK I EVER READ
253 books — 261 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
I'm glad someone made me read this book
11,622 books — 11,313 voters

Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckChild of God by Cormac McCarthy
Banned Books 2007-2008
85 books — 201 voters
Haunted by Chuck PalahniukThe Raw Shark Texts by Steven HallAss Goblins of Auschwitz by Cameron PierceGeek Love by Katherine Dunn
lists of the unusual and extreme
116 books — 62 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Road by Cormac McCarthyFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
15,480 books — 16,152 voters
Child of God by Cormac McCarthyLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Darkest Books of All Time
1,313 books — 1,687 voters