Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

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



The Life of Langston Hughes by Arnold RampersadThe Life of Langston Hughes by Arnold RampersadTalking at the Gates by James CampbellHome & Exile by Chinua AchebeDust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Author Biographies and Memoirs
648 books — 247 voters
Mythology by Edith HamiltonD'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'AulaireThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellBeowulf by Seamus HeaneyD'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
Best Books About Mythology
1,426 books — 2,301 voters

The Collected Poems by Langston HughesLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Best Poetry Books
3,127 books — 2,865 voters
Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingThe Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos KazantzakisThe End of Faith by Sam Harris
Books I Am Going to Hell For Reading
378 books — 416 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,886 books — 70,446 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Young Adult Books
13,021 books — 80,514 voters

Black Hawk Down by Mark BowdenThe Art of War by Sun TzuFlyboys by James D. BradleyJarhead by Anthony Swofford
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,290 books — 2,645 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,593 books — 16,862 voters

The Mirror and the Lamp by M.H. AbramsFive Great English Romantic Poets by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Romantic Poets
115 books — 40 voters
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
"The {_______} Who " Titles
968 books — 131 voters

Cane by Jean Toomer
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,259 books — 126,209 voters
1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 983 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Awakening by Kate ChopinJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Feminist Fiction
1,543 books — 2,807 voters
Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'ConnorClassic Tales of Brer Rabbit by David BorgenichtPlays, 1957-1980 by Tennessee WilliamsThe Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark TwainTar Baby by Toni Morrison
Best Southern Literature
1,422 books — 2,701 voters

The Boondocks by Aaron McGruderYour Spirits Walk Beside Us by Barbara Dianne SavageFacing Mount Kenya by Jomo KenyattaMine Boy by Peter AbrahamsMississippi to Africa by Melvin J. Collier
Books by Black Authors
918 books — 372 voters
1Q84 #2 by Haruki MurakamiArguably by Christopher HitchensIn the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Deferred Gratification: 2011's Most Eagerly Awaited New Books
126 books — 375 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Stranger by Albert CamusFacing Mount Kenya by Jomo KenyattaThe Dark Child by Camara Laye
Best by African Authors
413 books — 224 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
YA Dystopia Novels
2,037 books — 11,722 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best Books Ever
80,162 books — 298,857 voters
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Memoirs by Women
3,515 books — 4,121 voters