Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Opening Round

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kira FlowerChild (26 Lists)



Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Secret by Rhonda ByrneFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksThe Holy Bible by Anonymous
Popular Books that Annoy You
1,025 books — 2,001 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSunny Boy by Jay AsherMarley and Me by John GroganNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
Authors I Will Never Read Again
147 books — 61 voters

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Shining by Stephen KingThe World According to Garp by John IrvingBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Fiction Books About Writers
283 books — 177 voters
The Shining by Stephen KingA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickDoctor Sleep by Stephen King
Best Horror Books with Addiction Themes
10 books — 6 voters

Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGrawA God Against the Gods by Allen DruryReturn to Thebes by Allen Drury
Novels Set in Ancient Egypt
203 books — 333 voters
Shōgun by James ClavellTai-Pan by James ClavellSarum by Edward RutherfurdThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction
2,436 books — 2,917 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerTrinity by Leon UrisQuo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Best Historical Fiction
7,019 books — 27,149 voters
Good Omens by Terry PratchettLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny LawsonThe Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonA Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd
I Honestly LOL'd
869 books — 1,328 voters

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson BraunMurder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Best Cozy Mystery Series
2,289 books — 2,665 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien1984 by George OrwellRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Essential reads- English
48 books — 7 voters

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton TrumboWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverThe Road by Cormac McCarthySharp Objects by Gillian FlynnMisery by Stephen King
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,122 books — 11,054 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettIt's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned VizziniA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Stand-Alone Books (NO Series) with a rating of 4+ stars and 5,000+ votes
55 books — 5 voters

Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Goodreads Top 100 - Highest Rated Books on Goodreads with at least 10,000 Ratings
108 books — 1,002 voters
Shōgun by James ClavellThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle11/22/63 by Stephen KingThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.3 and Above
3,119 books — 544 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenOn Writing by Stephen KingJulie and Julia by Julie PowellMy Life in France by Julia Child
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,024 books — 1,932 voters
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffreyThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. HeinleinThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WilliamsThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteContact by Carl Sagan
Books with ratings from 100 thousand to 150 thousand
839 books — 174 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,532 books — 26,687 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,784 books — 51,198 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenSiddhartha by Hermann HesseA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,927 books — 113,086 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Shining by Stephen King
Most Rated Book By Year
234 books — 991 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenWild by Cheryl StrayedJulie and Julia by Julie Powell
Memoirs by Women
2,904 books — 3,018 voters
The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Liars' Club by Mary KarrProzac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
634 books — 1,118 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Year of Reading Women #readwomen2014
336 books — 80 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4 and Above
623 books — 322 voters

It's a Magical World by Bill WattersonKnow My Name by Chanel Miller
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.5 and above and With At Least 100 Ratings
1,936 books — 3,989 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. TolkienTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books Ever
124,724 books — 265,816 voters