Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ben (26 Lists)



Behind the Crisis by Guglielmo CarchediAlasdair MacIntyre's Engagement with Marxism by Paul BlackledgeA Marxist Philosophy of Language by Jean-Jacques LecercleAlthusser by Gregory ElliottBetween Equal Rights by China Miéville
Historical Materialism Book Series Titles
67 books — 12 voters
Stoner by John Williams
New York Review Books - Classics
632 books — 914 voters

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discred... by Jeff Vandermeer
Weirdest Books Ever
1,186 books — 1,199 voters
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Rising Up and Rising Down
81 books — 27 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoLolita by Vladimir NabokovFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best Anti-heroes in Books
603 books — 430 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Middle Ages Books
1,324 books — 1,935 voters

The Eye of the World by Robert JordanThe Gunslinger by Stephen KingInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Series
3,855 books — 10,247 voters
The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Eye of the World by Robert JordanA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Most Interesting Magic System
2,736 books — 9,018 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingThe Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Books for a Pandemic
713 books — 593 voters
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 632 voters

Twilight by Stephenie MeyerNeuromancer by William GibsonLoser by Jerry Spinelli
If Books Were Food, This Would Be A Fruitcake
54 books — 21 voters
Miles to Go by Miley CyrusThe O'Reilly Factor for Kids by Bill O'Reilly
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,609 books — 5,998 voters

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Superhero Fiction
852 books — 1,267 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldInkspell by Cornelia FunkeThe Book of Lost Things by John ConnollyMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtWicked by Gregory Maguire
Best Book Cover Art
12,496 books — 7,154 voters

I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Books About Ancient Rome
762 books — 1,162 voters
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Victorian Mysteries
165 books — 213 voters

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonI Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Best Book Titles
12,496 books — 9,002 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyLife of Pi by Yann MartelGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,747 books — 13,317 voters

The Eye of the World by Robert JordanThe Gunslinger by Stephen KingThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,897 books — 27,139 voters
Dandelion Wine by Ray BradburyFrom the Dust Returned by Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Best of Ray Bradbury
102 books — 246 voters

The Waste Lands by Stephen KingThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Best of Stephen King
198 books — 3,929 voters
Son of a Witch by Gregory MaguireTwilight by Stephenie MeyerPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
Biggest Disappointment
60 books — 94 voters

Water for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Best for Book Clubs
15,757 books — 20,608 voters
Santa's Twin by Dean Koontz
Best Dean Koontz Books
92 books — 910 voters

1984 by George OrwellDune by Frank HerbertFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Important Science Fiction
40 books — 14 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerEast of Eden by John SteinbeckAnimal Farm by George OrwellInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,896 voters