Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Anthony (8 Lists)



Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
80,179 books — 299,007 voters
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisNaked by David Sedaris
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
789 books — 1,224 voters

Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel BeckettEmpire of the Sun by J.G. BallardNight by Elie WieselSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,236 books — 4,034 voters
Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerDeath in Venice by Thomas MannOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,896 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonThe Castle by Franz Kafka
Most Difficult Novels
601 books — 2,064 voters
The Rest Is Noise by Alex RossAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,261 books — 126,263 voters