Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Gary (24 Lists)



The Green Ghetto by Vern SmithThe Abundant Life by Aaron Jacobs
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,191 books — 68,031 voters
Plot Fiction like the Masters by Terry Richard Bazes
Best Writing Reference
195 books — 160 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceDubliners by James JoyceBloomsday by David B. LentzJames Joyce by Richard Ellmann
James Joyce Reading List
51 books — 38 voters
Sonnets from New England by David B. Lentz
Goodreads Poets
301 books — 323 voters

The Gwousz Affair by Gary AndersonAmericA, Inc. by David B. Lentz
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,733 books — 25,960 voters
The Gwousz Affair by Gary Anderson
Dystopian Book List
140 books — 140 voters

Lizard World by Terry Richard BazesBloomsday by David B. LentzTermite Parade by Joshua MohrAnimal Magnet by Gary AndersonBest of All Possible Worlds by Gary Anderson
Great Small Press Books and Chapbooks
255 books — 182 voters
Beowulf by UnknownGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Favorite Poorly Rated Books
1,519 books — 261 voters

Animal Magnet by Gary Anderson
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,644 books — 14,148 voters
The World as I Found It by Bruce DuffyUnderworld by Don DeLilloBest of All Possible Worlds by Gary Anderson
The World
778 books — 46 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Cantos by Ezra PoundBloomsday by David B. Lentz
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 363 voters
Paradise Lost by John MiltonThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Collected Poems by Wallace StevensDevotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel by John Donne
Poetry
896 books — 425 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gulliver's Travels and ''A Modest Proposal'' by Jonathan SwiftA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Greatest Satires of All Time
103 books — 239 voters
Best of All Possible Worlds by Gary AndersonCandide by VoltaireTristram Shandy; and A Sentimental Journey by Laurence SterneCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Most Amusing Books Ever
35 books — 17 voters

Best of All Possible Worlds by Gary Anderson
Can't Wait Books of 2012
2,516 books — 15,088 voters
How Late It Was, How Late by James KelmanGeek Love by Katherine DunnAll Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of T... by Tod WodickaA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Book Titles
11,369 books — 7,750 voters

Bloomsday by David B. LentzBest of All Possible Worlds by Gary AndersonLizard World by Terry Richard Bazes
Best Indie Books to Read in 2012
964 books — 1,071 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceCloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonMolloy by Samuel BeckettBloomsday by David B. Lentz
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,044 voters

Animal Magnet by Gary AndersonBloomsday by David B. LentzUlysses by James JoyceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Style as Text
251 books — 128 voters
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Works of John Donne by John DonneBeowulf by UnknownParadise Lost by John Milton
Goodreads Top 100 Poems of All Time
259 books — 232 voters

Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardOur Town by Thornton WilderLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'NeillThe Misanthrope by Molière
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
415 books — 435 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerHerzog by Saul BellowThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaThe Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Best of Jewish Authors
733 books — 193 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensUnder the Volcano by Malcolm LowryCandide by VoltaireCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 990 voters
J R by William GaddisUlysses by James Joyce
Best Literary Books of All Time
252 books — 115 voters