Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kevin Tole (10 Lists)



Duluth by ore Vidal Gore VidalThe Joke by Milan KunderaThe Lost Steps by Alejo CarpentierThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassA Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Books I reread... and reread and reread
54 books — 1 voter
The Plains by Gerald MurnaneConcrete by Thomas BernhardThe Vivisector by Patrick WhiteThe Horse's Mouth by Joyce CaryRiders in the Chariot by Patrick White
Non-Art Books for Artists
38 books — 4 voters

The Plains by Gerald MurnaneVoss by Patrick WhiteInland by Gerald MurnaneVernon God Little by D.B.C. PierreThe Tree of Man by Patrick White
Modern Australian Library
151 books — 34 voters
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioZeno's Conscience by Italo SvevoChrist Stopped at Eboli by Carlo LeviThe Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
347 books — 233 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Works of Fiction Every Philosophy Student Should Read
140 books — 74 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaThe Vivisector by Patrick WhiteAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,771 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyLord of the Flies by William GoldingFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Stranger by Albert CamusLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,713 voters
Petersburg by Andrei BelyLife and Fate by Vasily GrossmanAnd Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail SholokhovFathers and Sons by Ivan TurgenevThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,277 voters

The Charterhouse of Parma by StendhalGravity's Rainbow by Thomas PynchonMephisto by Klaus MannThe Recognitions by William GaddisThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
All kinds of classics that should be read at least once
498 books — 236 voters
The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson DaviesA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukWhat's Bred in the Bone by Robertson DaviesThe Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
Art & Artists in Fiction
928 books — 1,103 voters