Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Paul (12 Lists)



High Fidelity by Nick HornbyPlease Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithCash by Johnny CashShout! The Beatles in Their Generation by Philip Norman
Best Books on Rock and Roll
882 books — 1,278 voters
Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandFreedom by Jonathan FranzenA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,641 books — 14,118 voters

The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding FathersCollected Writings by Thomas PaineA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Conscience of a Liberal by Paul KrugmanAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
932 books — 1,096 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
415 books — 435 voters

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Complete Poems by William BlakeThe Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose by T.S. EliotThe Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost
Goodreads Top 100 Poems of All Time
258 books — 231 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books Ever
75,611 books — 281,145 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,869 voters
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas PaineGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding Fathers
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,007 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraParadise Lost by John Milton
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 700 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareKing Henry IV, Part 1 by William ShakespeareKing Henry VI, Part 2 by William ShakespeareKing Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 540 voters

The Shipping News by Annie ProulxChicken Soup for the Soul by Jack CanfieldTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Worst Books of All Time
8,090 books — 19,869 voters
Dune by Frank HerbertFoundation by Isaac AsimovStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,315 books — 24,548 voters