Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Opening Round

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گم شده ای در مه by سید مرتضی مصطفویCapital by Karl MarxThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirPhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe Republic by Plato
Seminal Works (fiction and nonfiction)
96 books — 72 voters
Beyond Heaving Bosoms by Sarah WendellA Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela RegisDangerous Men and Adventurous Women by Jayne Ann KrentzDangerous Books for Girls by Maya RodaleReading the Romance by Janice A. Radway
Nonfiction About Romance Fiction
68 books — 35 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Republic by Plato
20 Greatest Academic Books as chosen by Academic Publishers and Booksellers
20 books — 32 voters
Surprised by Joy by C.S. LewisJack by George SayerBandersnatch by Diana Pavlac GlyerThe Company They Keep by Diana Pavlac GlyerThe Narnian by Alan Jacobs
Best Books Related to C. S. Lewis
129 books — 28 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerOedipus the King by SophoclesHoly Bible by AnonymousThe Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
Appendix A: The Theocratic Age (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
89 books — 27 voters
The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil GaimanThe Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne JonesA Slip of the Keyboard by Terry PratchettSteering the Craft by Ursula K. Le GuinTraveler of Worlds by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Speculative Fiction: Literary Criticism, Essays, Non-Fiction
129 books — 27 voters

Ex Libris by Anne FadimanThe Reading Promise by Alice OzmaTolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina SankovitchSo Many Books, So Little Time by Sara NelsonMy Reading Life by Pat Conroy
Bibliomemoirs
107 books — 26 voters
Silence of Shame by Wendy J. MenaraAdministrations of Lunacy by Mab SegrestI Want You to Know We’re Still Here by Esther Safran FoerRecollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca SolnitThe Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Kirkus Reviews Starred Nonfiction 2020
46 books — 14 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe White Album by Joan DidionThe Swerve by Stephen GreenblattSexual Politics by Kate MillettReading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
(100 of ) 102 INDISPENSIBLE WORKS OF LITERARY CRITICISM
100 books — 8 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster WallaceConsider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster WallaceBoth Flesh and Not by David Foster WallaceOblivion by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace Studies
50 books — 8 voters

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeChildhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke2010 by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C Clarke
33 books — 8 voters
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. GreenWho Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.See Me Naked by Tara T. GreenHow to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald WalkerShe Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2020s
32 books — 8 voters

Blood and Money by David McNallyThe Weird and the Eerie by Mark FisherBitches, Bimbos & Virgins by Gary J. SvehlaDecoding Gender in Science Fiction by Brian AtteberyFigures of Desire by Linda Williams
Horror meets Politics
128 books — 6 voters
Tits Up by Sarah ThorntonBLK ART by Zaria WareDie Hot with a Vengeance by Sable YongFlawless by Elise HuToxic Beauty by Samuel S. Epstein
Best Books on Beauty Culture
60 books — 6 voters

African American Literary Theory by Winston NapierThe Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Houston A. Baker Jr.What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. WarrenThe Black Aesthetic Unbound by April C.E. Langley
Literary Criticism on African-American Work
30 books — 4 voters
The World of Yesterday by Stefan ZweigSo We Read On by Maureen CorriganLeave Me Alone, I'm Reading by Maureen CorriganA Gentleman of Pleasure by Brian BusbyPretend We're Dead by Annalee Newitz
Literature Bazaar
102 books — 4 voters

Maldoror and Poems by Comte de LautréamontThe Way Down and Out by John SeniorFelicien Rops by Bernadette BonnierThe Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by Ladislav KlímaFantazius Mallare by Ben Hecht
•Poedelaire
101 books — 4 voters
How Fiction Works by James WoodThe art of fiction by Walter BesantThe Emotion Thesaurus by Angela AckermanStory and Structure by Leon ConradStory Genius by Lisa Cron
Writing
23 books — 4 voters

Wild by Cheryl StrayedThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionFun Home by Alison Bechdel2666 by Roberto BolañoBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Books You Could Write a Book About
12 books — 3 voters
Gumshoe America by Sean McCannThe History of Mystery by Max Allan CollinsDetectives in the Shadows by Susanna LeeHard-Boiled by Erin A. SmithThe Lost Detective by Nathan Ward
Hardboiled Detective and Crime Nonfiction
13 books — 3 voters

Descent from Heaven by Deborah BoedekerJohn Henry and His People by John GarstJuan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics by Scott WeintraubMeaning of Folklore by Alan DundesThe Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry by John Corbett
•-The Rope & The Cuckold-
200 books — 2 voters
Divan de Tamarit by Federico García LorcaSonetos del amor oscuro by Federico García LorcaImpresiones y paisajes by Federico García LorcaLibro de poemas by Federico García LorcaCanciones by Federico García Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca
100 books — 2 voters

And It Begins Like This by LaTanya McQueenThe Source of Self-Regard by Toni MorrisonBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Book of Delights by Ross GayBlack Ink by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2010s
31 books — 2 voters
Langston Hughes by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Alice Walker by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Zora Neale Hurston by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Gloria Naylor by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Richard Wright by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 1990s
16 books — 2 voters

The Poetics of Murder by Glenn W. MostHow to Write a Mystery by Lee ChildCritical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction by Carl RollysonGardening Can Be Murder by Marta McDowellTheory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction by Jerome H. Delamater
Detective Fiction: The Theory
61 books — 2 voters
The Annotated Alice - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Th... by Lewis CarrollInside Prince Caspian by Devin Brown
Annotated Editions and Commentaries on Novels
2 books — 1 voter

Mothers of the Nation by Anne K. MellorPoetic Form and British Romanticism by Stuart CurranThe Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England by E.J. CleryAnna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century by Claudia T. KairoffAnna Seward by Teresa Barnard
Inspiring scholars
7 books — 1 voter
Gothic Music by Isabella van ElferenGeorge Eliot and the Gothic Novel by Royce MahawatteWomen’s Authorship and the Early Gothic by Kathleen HudsonPostcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Aust... by Alison RuddCanadian Gothic by Cynthia Sugars
Gothic Literary Studies
53 books — 1 voter

This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter MosleyIn Search Of Hannah Crafts by Henry Louis Gates Jr.South of Tradition by Trudier HarrisThe Devil and Dave Chappelle by William Jelani CobbForgotten Readers by Elizabeth McHenry
Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2000s
21 books — 1 voter

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