Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Craig Bowers (29 Lists)



Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics by Bernardo Kastrup
On Schopenhauer
96 books — 6 voters
Why Materialism Is Baloney by Bernardo KastrupBrief Peeks Beyond by Bernardo KastrupThe Case Against Reality by Donald D. HoffmanIrreducible by Federico FagginCIA Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process by U.S. Department of Defense
Science of Consciousness
31 books — 7 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandAnthem by Ayn RandTrump by Donald J. TrumpThink Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life by Donald J. TrumpThe Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Worst Books of All Time
8,101 books — 19,875 voters
Einstein by Walter IsaacsonWhat the Buddha Thought by Richard F. GombrichWalden, And On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David ThoreauDoes It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality by Alan W. WattsCloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown by Alan W. Watts
A Buddhist Reading List
897 books — 1,175 voters

How to Be Yourself by Ellen HendriksenThe Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide by Francine JaySiddhartha by Hermann HesseNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best Positive Change Books
1,087 books — 703 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Great Reads About Mental Health
361 books — 408 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonNight by Elie WieselEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Best History Books
3,683 books — 3,718 voters
The Case Against Reality by Donald D. HoffmanSuper Imperialism. The Economic Strategy of American Empire. ... by Michael Hudson
Current Events Books
112 books — 11 voters

The History of Philosophy by A.C. GraylingExistentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul SartreSiddhartha by Hermann HesseDiscourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René DescartesThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Best Philosophy Introductions
222 books — 281 voters
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Existential Works - Oh, What Is The Meaning of Life?
297 books — 187 voters

The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,590 books — 13,120 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandBecome a Better You by Joel OsteenThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisCrippled America by Donald J. TrumpA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Dealbreakers: If You Like This Book, We Won't Get Along
2,028 books — 5,324 voters

1984 by George OrwellWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,730 books — 25,951 voters
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers
The US Constitution (nonfiction)
68 books — 17 voters

Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty
Corbynomics, New Economics & Anti-Austerity Theory
70 books — 24 voters
Relativity by Albert EinsteinThe Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian GreeneCosmos by Carl SaganA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingThe First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg
Cosmology
215 books — 189 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Doomsday Reading List
180 books — 22 voters
Contending Economic Theories by Richard D. Wolff
Marxist Political Economy
26 books — 19 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Anarchist books
472 books — 374 voters
Our Revolution by Bernie SandersThe Speech by Bernie SandersBernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution by Bernie SandersOutsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders
Books by Democratic Candidates for President in 2020
35 books — 13 voters

Walden by Henry David ThoreauSinglism by Bella DePaulo
The Upside of Living Alone/Single Life
65 books — 15 voters
The Case Against Reality by Donald D. HoffmanA Mind of Her Own by Anne Campbell
Evolutionary Psychology
233 books — 94 voters

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Books Every Reporter Should Read
17 books — 5 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandTrump by Donald J. TrumpCrippled America by Donald J. Trump
1001 Books I'd Rather Die than Read
965 books — 865 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Real History
86 books — 24 voters
The Meaning of Marxism by Paul D'AmatoSuper Imperialism by Michael Hudson
Socialist Classics
419 books — 327 voters

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,771 voters
A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript by Mark Myers
Best JavaScript Books
40 books — 90 voters

Our Revolution by Bernie SandersThe Speech by Bernie SandersGive Us the Ballot by Ari BermanProfit Over People by Noam ChomskyWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Books to Read under the Trump Administration
1,169 books — 518 voters