Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dan (14 Lists)



Lolita by Vladimir NabokovPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovPnin by Vladimir NabokovThe Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir NabokovTransparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Nabokov Novel
19 books — 26 voters
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollAgainst Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan SontagArtaud Anthology by Antonin ArtaudLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Patti Smith's Lifelong Reading List
103 books — 7 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonUlysses by James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Books you have read more than one time
12,382 books — 7,647 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoycePostmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonManifestoes of Surrealism by André BretonUlysses by James JoyceAnti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 363 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 171 voters
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 by Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerCloud Atlas by David MitchellFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,302 books — 4,495 voters
The Geography of the Imagination by Guy DavenportAgainst Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan SontagAnatomy of Criticism by Northrop FryeThe Outsider by Colin WilsonFearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye
Works of Literary Criticism
462 books — 105 voters

The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar WildeChitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian FlemingThe Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald BarthelmeOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Books written for children by authors who typically write for adults
26 books — 7 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceCivil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David ThoreauThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood1984 by George Orwell
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
924 books — 2,382 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovFinnegans Wake by James JoyceLost in the Funhouse by John Barth
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,105 books — 1,718 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,044 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Public Burning by Robert Coover
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 7,003 voters
VALIS by Philip K. DickA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick
Best of Philip K. Dick
88 books — 407 voters