Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Eric Smith (49 Lists)



Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
Worst Business Books
10 books — 14 voters
Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Worst Overrated Classics
74 books — 29 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Books that don't deserve to be so popular, overrated and annoyingly awful books that sheep love
229 books — 78 voters
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Books that were in my humble opinion wildy overrated to the point of it being nearly a crime
173 books — 103 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
100 books — 275 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,896 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,684 books — 14,506 voters
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinAlexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowWashington by Ron ChernowTruman by David McCulloughThe First American by H.W. Brands
The Best American Historical Biographies of All Time
253 books — 136 voters

Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade
On Evolution - Love It Or Hate It
204 books — 110 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeA Soldier's Play by Charles FullerThe Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson
Books by Black Authors
918 books — 372 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerLight in August by William Faulkner
Best Southern Gothic Literature
359 books — 527 voters
The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryCold Mountain by Charles FrazierThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best American Historical Fiction
510 books — 398 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Most Difficult Novels
602 books — 2,064 voters
Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald MaassSelf-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne
Books For Writers
136 books — 83 voters

As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerLight in August by William FaulknerAppointment in Samarra by John O'HaraThe Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
876 books — 1,265 voters
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
222 books — 308 voters

Sentimental Education by Gustave FlaubertMaldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
242 books — 408 voters
Three Tales by Gustave FlaubertMaldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
261 books — 353 voters

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,132 books — 3,697 voters
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave EggersLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Entertainment Weekly New Classics
105 books — 258 voters

Pea Ridge by William L. Shea
Battles of the American Civll War - Great american civil war books
167 books — 12 voters
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe War of Art by Steven PressfieldWriting Tools by Roy Peter ClarkWriting the Breakout Novel by Donald MaassStyle by Joseph M. Williams
Best Books on Writing
809 books — 1,345 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Historical Fiction
8,392 books — 27,601 voters
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorites from 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die
515 books — 1,063 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Trial by Franz Kafka
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die That Are Available From Project Gutenberg
198 books — 71 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,322 books — 5,916 voters

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinWashington by Ron ChernowJohn Quincy Adams by Paul C. NagelWashington's Crossing by David Hackett FischerThe Man Who Saved the Union by H.W. Brands
Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)
476 books — 535 voters
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
Top Marketing Books for Authors
57 books — 66 voters

Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
Advertising Suggested Reading List
81 books — 53 voters
Positioning by Al RiesSelling the Invisible by Harry BeckwithThe E-myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
Strong Business Books
165 books — 157 voters


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