The Goodreads Choice Awards is a yearly award program, first launched on Goodreads in 2009. Users are able to vote for the books that Goodreads has nominated and are also able to nominate books of their choosing, released in the given year. The majority of books that Goodreads itself nominates are from Goodreads authors.
BEST FICTION
WINNER: Still Me (Jojo Moyes)
BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER
WINNER: The Outsider (Stephen King)
BEST HISTORICAL FICTION
WINNER: The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah)
BEST FANTASY
WINNER: Circe (Madeline Miller)
BEST ROMANCE
WINNER: The Kiss Quotient (Helen Hoang)
BEST OF THE BEST
WINNER: The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION
WINNER: Vengeful (V.E. Schwab)
BEST HORROR
WINNER: Elevation (Stephen King)
BEST HUMOR
WINNER: The Last Black Unicorn (Tiffany Haddish)
BEST NONFICTION
WINNER: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (Michelle McNamara & Gillian Flynn)
BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
WINNER: Educated (Tara Westover)
BEST HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
WINNER: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers (Maxwell King)
BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
WINNER: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Stephen Brusatte)
BEST FOOD & COOKBOOKS
WINNER: Cravings: Hungry for More (Chrissy Teigen & Adeena Sussman)
BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS & COMICS
WINNER: Herding Cats (Sarah Andersen)
BEST POETRY
WINNER: The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One (Amanda Lovelace)
BEST DEBUT AUTHOR
WINNER: Children of Blood and Bone (Tomi Adeyemi)
BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION
WINNER: Leah on the Offbeat (Becky Albertalli)
BEST YOUNG ADULT FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION
WINNER: Kingdom of Ash (Sarah J. Maas)
BEST MIDDLE GRADE & CHILDREN’S
WINNER: The Burning Maze (Rick Riordan)
BEST PICTURE BOOKS
WINNER: I Am Enough (Grace Byers & Keturah A. Bobo)
Last Update: 4-December-2018
