Goodreads Choice Awards
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The Goodreads Choice Awards is a yearly award program, first launched on Goodreads in 2009.
Winners are determined by users voting on books that Goodreads has nominated or books of their choosing, released in the given year. Most books that Goodreads nominates are from verified Goodreads authors. The final voting round collects the top 10 books from 20 different categories.[1]
Winners
Ongoing awards
Discontinued awards
Category | 2009[2] | 2010[3] | 2011[4] | 2012[5] | 2013[6] | 2014[7] | 2015[8] | 2016[9] | 2017[10][11] | 2018[12] | 2019[13][14] | 2020[15][16] |
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Best Picture Book | Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman |
It's a Book by Lane Smith |
When I Grow Up by "Weird Al" Yankovic |
Olivia and the Fairy Princesses by Ian Falconer |
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers |
The Pigeon Needs a Bath! (I Do Not!) by Mo Willems |
The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers |
The Thank You Book by Mo Willems |
We're All Wonders by R. J. Palacio |
I Am Enough by Grace Byers | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood by Fred Rogers and Luke Flowers | Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky |
Best Food & Cooking | My Father's Daughter by Gwyneth Paltrow |
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl by Ree Drummond |
Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle |
Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten |
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime by Ree Drummond |
Cravings by Chrissy Teigen |
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It! by Ree Drummond |
Cravings: Hungry for More by Chrissy Teigen and Adeena Sussman | Antoni in the Kitchen by Antoni Porowski | Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa CookbookI by Ina Garten[18] | ||
Best Science & Technology | Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish by John Hargrove |
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal |
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson |
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte | Will My Cats Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty | A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough and Jonnie Hughes | ||||||
Best of the Best | Angie Thomas (Best Debut Author 2017 for The Hate U Give) | |||||||||||
Best Business | #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso |
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Best Paranormal Fantasy | Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris |
Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning |
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness |
Cold Days by Jim Butcher |
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Best Goodreads Author | Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels) |
Veronica Roth (Insurgent) |
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Best Travel & Outdoors | Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan | |||||||||||
Best Cover Art | Torment by Lauren Kate |
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Best Chick Lit | The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks |
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Best Young Adult Series | Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins |
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Multiple wins
Several authors have won multiple Goodreads Readers Choice Awards or the same award in multiple years. Stephen King and both his sons, Owen and Joe, have won The Goodreads Choice Awards. The table below sets out those authors to have won more than one award:
(Listed by number of wins, then alphabetically by surname)
Number of wins | Author | Winning categories |
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11 | Rick Riordan | Best Children's & Middle Grade (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) |
9 | Stephen King | Best Science Fiction (2011), Best Fantasy (2012), Best Horror (2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), Best Mystery & Thriller (2014, 2016, 2018) |
6 | Sarah J. Maas | Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), Best Fantasy (2020, 2021) |
5 | Veronica Roth | Best Book (2011), Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2011, 2012, 2013), Best Goodreads Author (2012) |
4 | Suzanne Collins | Best Book (2009, 2010), Best Young Adult Series (2009), Best Young Adult Fantasy (2011) |
Neil Gaiman | Best Fantasy (2013, 2015), Best Graphic Novel (2009), Best Picture Book (2009) | |
3 | Sarah Andersen | Best Graphic Novel and Comics (2016, 2017, 2018) |
Margaret Atwood | Best Science Fiction (2013), Best Fiction (2019), Best Poetry (2020) | |
Pierce Brown | Best Goodreads Debut Author (2014), Best Science Fiction (2015, 2016) | |
Ree Drummond | Best Food & Cooking (2012, 2015, 2017) | |
Colleen Hoover | Best Romance (2015, 2016, 2017) | |
Rainbow Rowell | Best Fiction (2014), Best Young Adult Fiction (2013), Best Graphic Novels & Comics (2019) | |
J. K. Rowling | Best Fiction (2012), Best Fantasy (2016, 2017) | |
Angie Thomas | Best Goodreads Debut Author (2017), Best Young Adult Fiction (2017), Best of the Best (2018) | |
J. R. Ward | Best Romance (2010, 2011, 2013) | |
Andy Weir | Best Science Fiction (2014, 2017, 2021) | |
2 | Leigh Bardugo | Best Fantasy (2019), Best Young Adult Fantasy (2021) |
Holly Black | Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2019, 2020) | |
Cassandra Clare | Best Goodreads Author (2011), Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2014), | |
Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers | Best Picture Book (2013, 2015) | |
Diana Gabaldon | Best Romance (2009, 2014) | |
Ina Garten | Best Food & Cooking (2014, 2020) | |
John Green | Best Young Adult Fiction (2012), Best Nonfiction (2021) | |
Kristin Hannah | Best Historical Fiction (2015, 2018) | |
Deborah Harkness | Best Paranormal Fantasy (2012), Best Fantasy (2014) | |
Charlaine Harris | Best Fantasy (2009), Best Paranormal Fantasy (2010) | |
Paula Hawkins | Best Mystery & Thriller (2015, 2017) | |
Jeff Kinney | Best Children's & Middle Grade (2009, 2010) | |
Stieg Larsson | Best Mystery & Thriller (2009, 2010) | |
Jenny Lawson | Best Humor (2012, 2021) | |
Amanda Lovelace | Best Poetry (2016, 2018) | |
Casey McQuiston | Best Romance (2019), Best Debut Novel (2019) | |
Taylor Jenkins Reid | Best Historical Fiction (2019, 2021) | |
Rebecca Skloot | Best Nonfiction (2010), Best Debut Author (2010) | |
Chrissy Teigen & Adeena Sussman | Best Food & Cooking (2016, 2018) | |
Mo Willems | Best Picture Book (2014, 2016) |
References
- ^ Kellogg, Carolyn (October 30, 2012). "Goodreads launches its 2012 awards". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 23, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
- ^ a b "The 2009 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b "The 2010 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b "The 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b "The 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b "The 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b "The 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b "The 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b "The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b "The 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b Russell, Scott (December 5, 2017). "Women Win Big at the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards". Paste Magazine.
- ^ a b "The 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b "The 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b Jean-Philippe, McKenzie (December 11, 2019). "Goodreads' 20 Best Books of 2019 Will Keep You up at Night". Oprah Magazine.
- ^ a b "Winners of 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards: Barack Obama, Margaret Atwood, Ina Garten". USA Today. December 8, 2020.
- ^ a b Mabee, Megan (December 8, 2020). "2020 Goodreads Choice Awards Winners Announced". Book Riot.
- ^ "The 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards". goodreads.com.
- ^ a b c d e f "The Goodreads Choice Awards List". Penguin Random House. Retrieved January 21, 2021.