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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]
Ongoing awards
2000s
| Year | Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009[2] | Children's | Jeff Kinney | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days |
| Fantasy | Charlaine Harris | Dead and Gone | |
| Fiction | Kathryn Stockett | The Help | |
| Graphic Novel | Neil Gaiman | Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? | |
| Mystery & Thriller | Stieg Larsson | The Girl Who Played with Fire | |
| Nonfiction | Dave Cullen | Columbine | |
| Romance | Diana Gabaldon | An Echo in the Bone | |
| Science Fiction | Scott Westerfeld | Leviathan | |
| Young Adult Fiction | Sarah Dessen | Along for the Ride |
2010s
2020s
Discontinued awards
| Year | Category | Author |
Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009[2] | Chick Lit | Nicholas Sparks | The Last Song |
| Picture Book | Neil Gaiman | Blueberry Girl | |
| Young Adult Series | Suzanne Collins | Catching Fire | |
| 2010[3] | Cover Art | Lauren Kate | Torment |
| Paranormal Fantasy | Charlaine Harris | Dead in the Family | |
| Picture Book | Lane Smith | It's a Book | |
| 2011[4] | Food & Cooking | Gwyneth Paltrow | My Father's Daughter |
| Goodreads Author | Cassandra Clare | City of Fallen Angels | |
| Paranormal Fantasy | Karen Marie Moning | Shadowfever | |
| Picture Book | Weird Al Yankovic | When I Grow Up | |
| Travel & Outdoors | Conor Grennan | Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal | |
| 2012[5] | Food & Cooking | Ree Drummond | The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl |
| Goodreads Author | Veronica Roth | Insurgent | |
| Paranormal Fantasy | Deborah Harkness | Shadow of Night | |
| Picture Book | Ian Falconer | Olivia and the Fairy Princesses | |
| 2013[6] | Food & Cooking | Tim Federle | Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist |
| Paranormal Fantasy | Jim Butcher | Cold Days | |
| Picture Book | Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers | The Day the Crayons Quit | |
| 2014[7] | Business | Sophia Amoruso | #GIRLBOSS |
| Food & Cooking | Ina Garten | Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook | |
| Picture Book | Mo Willems | The Pigeon Needs a Bath! (I Do Not!) | |
| 2015[8] | Food & Cooking | Ree Drummond | The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime |
| Picture Book | Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers | The Day the Crayons Came Home | |
| Science & Technology | John Hargrove | Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish | |
| 2016[9] | Food & Cooking | Chrissy Teigen | Cravings |
| Picture Book | Mo Willems | The Thank You Book | |
| Science & Technology | Frans De Waal | Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? | |
| 2017[10][11] | Food & Cooking | Ree Drummond | The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It! |
| Picture Book | R. J. Palacio | We're All Wonders | |
| Science & Technology | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | |
| 2018[12] | Best of the Best | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give |
| Food & Cooking | Chrissy Teigen and Adeena Sussman | Cravings: Hungry for More | |
| Picture Book | Grace Byers | I Am Enough | |
| Science & Technology | Steve Brusatte | The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs | |
| 2019[13][14] | Food & Cooking | Antoni Porowski | Antoni in the Kitchen |
| Picture Book | Fred Rogers and Luke Flowers | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | |
| Science & Technology | Caitlin Doughty | Will My Cats Eat My Eyeballs? | |
| 2020[16][17] | Food & Cooking | Ina Garten | Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa CookbookI[19] |
| Picture Book | Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky | Antiracist Baby | |
| Science & Technology | David Attenborough and Jonnie Hughes | A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future |
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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) |
| 10 | Stephen King | Best Science Fiction (2011), Best Fantasy (2012), Best Horror (2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023), Best Mystery & Thriller (2014, 2016, 2018) |
| 7 | Sarah J. Maas | Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), Best Fantasy (2020, 2021, 2022) |
| 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) | |
| Taylor Jenkins Reid | Best Historical Fiction (2019, 2021, 2022) | |
| Emily Henry | Best Romance (2021, 2022, 2023) | |
| Leigh Bardugo | Best Fantasy (2019, 2023), Best Young Adult Fantasy (2021) | |
| 2 | 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) | |
| 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) | |
| Amanda Gorman | Best Poetry (2021, 2022) | |
| V. E. Schwab | Best Science Fiction (2018), Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2022) | |
| Alice Oseman | Best Graphic Novels & Comics (2020, 2022) | |
| Emilia Hart | Best Historical Fiction (2023), Best Debut Novel (2023) |
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