Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Chris Stanley (11 Lists)



The Woman in Black by Susan HillThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Secret of Crickley Hall by James HerbertThe Waiting Room by F.G. CottamHer Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Supernatural books, no romance, no series
174 books — 70 voters
Us by David Nicholls
2014 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 102 voters

Skin Game by Jim Butcher
Best books of May, 2014
92 books — 283 voters
The Dragondain by Richard DueHeidi by Johanna SpyriThe Subtle Knife by Philip PullmanThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Great Middle Grade Reads
761 books — 599 voters

Rivers of London by Ben AaronovitchSoulless by Gail CarrigerHounded by Kevin Hearne
Best Urban Fantasy SERIES
726 books — 3,754 voters
The Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsDracula by Bram StokerThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937
361 books — 717 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Best British and Irish Literature
1,167 books — 1,111 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Books You Can't Live Without
1,655 books — 1,184 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónA Game of Sorrows by S.G. MacLeanThe Redemption of Alexander Seaton by S.G. MacLeanHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,856 books — 21,922 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Redemption of Alexander Seaton by S.G. MacLeanA Game of Sorrows by S.G. MacLeanThe Owl Killers by Karen MaitlandDissolution by C.J. Sansom
Best Historical Mystery
2,060 books — 4,509 voters

The Meaning of Night by Michael CoxThe French Lieutenant's Woman by John FowlesThe Crimson Petal and the White by Michel FaberThe Glass of Time by Michael CoxPossession by A.S. Byatt
Best neo-victorian novels
117 books — 206 voters