Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tom (35 Lists)



Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Recognitions by William Gaddis
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 518 voters
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Espionage
983 books — 1,016 voters

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
554 books — 248 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. WellsA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark TwainShe by H. Rider Haggard
Adventure, Fantasy, and Sci Fi Before 1923
210 books — 54 voters

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Books I Read in 2012
461 books — 51 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Science Fiction and Fantasy on The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read.
151 books — 108 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
I Love New York City
609 books — 355 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerKiss Me Kate by Cole Porter
Titles that Allude to Shakespeare
128 books — 50 voters

Porno by Irvine WelshThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienThe Shining by Stephen King
fiction in which the writing of a book features prominently
99 books — 49 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Rooting for the Bad Guy
683 books — 1,468 voters

Our Town by Thornton WilderLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'NeillAngels in America by Tony KushnerMaster Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
415 books — 435 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain
397 books — 212 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,089 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Top 100 New Classics
262 books — 416 voters

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,064 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Earth Is Room Enough--On-Planet SF
162 books — 66 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Books Named After Books
45 books — 26 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasRichard III by William ShakespeareFlashman by George MacDonald FraserThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroSweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim
Best Anti-heroes in Books
600 books — 429 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerGo Down, Moses by William Faulkner
Books That Quote or Reference Other Works In The Title
367 books — 85 voters
Mason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonInherent Vice by Thomas PynchonAgainst the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
9 books — 261 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Great Debut Novels
1,574 books — 1,473 voters
The Stand by Stephen KingHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Most Over-Written Book
57 books — 20 voters

Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin WoodHollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin WoodHoward Hawks by Robin WoodSexual Politics & Narrative Film by Robin WoodHitchcock's Films by Robin Wood
Books ABOUT Movies
836 books — 273 voters
Best Books Ever
75,796 books — 281,761 voters

Our Town by Thornton WilderA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettYou Can't Take it With You by Moss HartWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Best Plays or Musicals
340 books — 193 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Suicide
707 books — 495 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most Over Hyped and Annoying Books Ever
568 books — 603 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,287 books — 10,018 voters


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