Goodreads Choice Awards

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.

Winners

Ongoing awards

Category	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Best Fiction	The Help by Kathryn Stockett	Room by Emma Donoghue	1Q84 by Haruki Murakami	The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling	And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini	Landline by Rainbow Rowell	Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee	Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty	Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng	Still Me by Jojo Moyes	The Testaments by Margaret Atwood	The Midnight Library by Matt Haig	Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Best Nonfiction	Columbine by Dave Cullen	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot	The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins	Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain	The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin & Richard Panek	The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan	Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg	Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter	How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life by Lilly Singh	I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara	Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis	Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi	The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
Best Mystery & Thriller	The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson	Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich	Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn	Inferno by Dan Brown	Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King	The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins	End of Watch by Stephen King	Into the Water by Paula Hawkins	The Outsider by Stephen King	The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides	The Guest List by Lucy Foley	The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Best Fantasy	Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris	Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson	A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin	The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King	The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman	The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness	Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J. K. Rowling	Circe by Madeline Miller	Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo	House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas	A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
Best Science Fiction	Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld	Feed by Mira Grant	11/22/63 by Stephen King	The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter	MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood	The Martian by Andy Weir	Golden Son by Pierce Brown	Morning Star by Pierce Brown	Artemis by Andy Weir	Vengeful by VE Schwab	Recursion by Blake Crouch	To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini	Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Best Romance	An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon	Lover Mine by J. R. Ward	Lover Unleashed by J. R. Ward	Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James	Lover at Last by J. R. Ward	Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon	Confess by Colleen Hoover	It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover	Without Merit by Colleen Hoover	The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang	Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston	From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout	People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Best Young Adult Fiction	Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen	Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver	Where She Went by Gayle Forman	The Fault in Our Stars by John Green	Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell	We Were Liars by E. Lockhart	All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven	Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys	The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas	Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli	Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott	Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo	Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Best Graphic Novel (& Comics from 2011)	Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman	Twilight: The Graphic Novel by Stephenie Meyer	Vampire Academy: The Graphic Novel by Richelle Mead	The Walking Dead Vol. 16: A Larger World by Robert Kirkman	Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl and artist Cassandra Jean	Serenity: Leaves on the Wind by Zack Whedon, Fábio Moon and Daniel Dos Santos	Saga – Volume Four by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples	Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen	Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen	Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen	Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks	Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman	Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe
Best Children's (& Middle Grade from 2010)	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney	The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan	The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan	The House of Hades by Rick Riordan	The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan	The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan	The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan	The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan	The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan	The Tyrant's Tomb by Rick Riordan	The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan	Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan
Best Historical Fiction		Fall of Giants by Ken Follett	The Paris Wife by Paula McLain	The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman	Life After Life by Kate Atkinson	All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr	The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah	The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead	Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate	The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah	Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid	The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett	Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Best Poetry		Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder	Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins	A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver	The Fall of Arthur by J. R. R. Tolkien	Lullabies by Lang Leav	The Dogs I Have Kissed by Trista Mateer	The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace	The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur	The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace	Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson	Dearly: New Poems by Margaret Atwood	The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
Best History & Biography		The Tudors by G. J. Meyer	Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson		Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones	The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport	Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson	Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man, by William Shatner	The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore	The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King	The Five by Hallie Rubenhold	Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson	Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Best Memoir & Autobiography		Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi	Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Matthew Logelin	Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed	I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai	This Star Won't Go Out by Esther Earl	A Work in Progress by Connor Franta	When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi	What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton	Educated by Tara Westover	Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness	A Promised Land by Barack Obama	Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Best Humor		Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore	Bossypants by Tina Fey	Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson	Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh	Yes Please by Amy Poehler	Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling	The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer	Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham	The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish	Dear Girls by Ali Wong	Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle	Broken (in the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson
Best Young Adult Fantasy (& Science Fiction from 2011)		Mockingjayby Suzanne Collins	Divergent by Veronica Roth	Insurgent by Veronica Roth	Allegiant by Veronica Roth	City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare	Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas	A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas	A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas	Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas	The Wicked King by Holly Black	The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black	Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
Best (Goodreads) Debut Author (Best Debut Novel in 2019)		Rebecca Skloot(The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)			Emma Chase (Tangled)	Pierce Brown(Red Rising)	Victoria Aveyard(Red Queen)	Alwyn Hamilton (Rebel of the Sands)	Angie Thomas(The Hate U Give)	Tomi Adeyemi (Children of Blood and Bone)	Casey McQuiston (Red, White & Royal Blue)	Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid	The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
Best Horror			Graveminder by Melissa Marr	The Twelve by Justin Cronin	Doctor Sleep by Stephen King	Prince Lestat by Anne Rice	Saint Odd by Dean Koontz	The Fireman by Joe Hill	Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King	Elevation by Stephen King	The Institute by Stephen King	Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia	The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

Discontinued awards

Category	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
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
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
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
Best Goodreads Author			Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels)	Veronica Roth (Insurgent)
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
Best Chick Lit	The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
Best Young Adult Series	Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

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
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)