Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Theodore Thompson (23 Lists)



The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasDune by Frank Herbert
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,879 books — 7,005 voters
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Best Unappreciated Books
4,386 books — 2,307 voters

1984 by George Orwell
Best Philosophical Literature
1,239 books — 2,905 voters
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Best Graphic Novels
3,534 books — 6,888 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Indie Literature, General Fiction
114 books — 218 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Humor Writing
893 books — 1,003 voters

Onitsha by J.M.G. Le Clézio
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,920 books — 1,817 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
388 books — 311 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Short Stories
1,802 books — 1,119 voters
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,747 books — 13,317 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Medicine and Literature
2,067 books — 2,409 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Best American History Books
2,351 books — 3,165 voters

The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
Favorite Travel Books
2,055 books — 4,002 voters
Pastoralia by George SaundersFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Collections of Short Stories
2,986 books — 2,114 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Best Book Titles
12,496 books — 8,999 voters
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
Books on Books: Bookmaking, Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia
430 books — 371 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Rabelais' Codpiece
134 books — 147 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasGreat Expectations by Charles DickensMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,745 books — 6,939 voters

1984 by George OrwellAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisOn the Road by Jack KerouacMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,756 voters
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Drunken Masters
287 books — 377 voters

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
565 books — 549 voters
The Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacJunky by William S. BurroughsThe Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Beat Lit
236 books — 182 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,258 books — 126,259 voters