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10 Years of Goodreads Choice Award All-Stars
For the past decade, the Goodreads Choice Awards have put the power in our readers' hands by letting them decide the best books of the year. In honor of this celebrated tradition, we decided to take a look at the authors who took home the gold again and again.
We call these multi-winners the "Goodreads Choice Award All-Stars"—champions whose books have won at least three or more times throughout the awards’ history. And while the categories have slightly changed over the years, our readers' love for these authors is enduring.
At the top of this list is Rick Riordan, whose middle-grade fantasy series about young demigods has set the record for seven consecutive wins in the Best Middle Grade category. He's followed by other fan favorites, including Stephen King (Best Horror), Veronica Roth (Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction), Colleen Hoover (Best Romance), Pierce Brown (Best Science Fiction), and many more.
How many of these Goodreads Choice Award All-Stars have you read? Don’t forget to add your favorites to your Want to Read Shelf!
We call these multi-winners the "Goodreads Choice Award All-Stars"—champions whose books have won at least three or more times throughout the awards’ history. And while the categories have slightly changed over the years, our readers' love for these authors is enduring.
At the top of this list is Rick Riordan, whose middle-grade fantasy series about young demigods has set the record for seven consecutive wins in the Best Middle Grade category. He's followed by other fan favorites, including Stephen King (Best Horror), Veronica Roth (Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction), Colleen Hoover (Best Romance), Pierce Brown (Best Science Fiction), and many more.
How many of these Goodreads Choice Award All-Stars have you read? Don’t forget to add your favorites to your Want to Read Shelf!
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Let us know in the comments how many Goodreads Choice Award All-Stars you've read!
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I read 8 of these books. Liked 7 (of which 3 are among my favorite books ever).
None. So all going on my TBR list. Thanks for the recommendations, Goodreads! Seen all the Divergent movies, though.
18 and I'm currently reading one. Three others are on my TBR.
14...but mostly because of Rick Riordan, best man!
2, both by King. When does this year's voting start?
Read all 7 by Rick, IMO his HoO novels are deserving champions, while Magnus and Apollo are not as good. From King, I read Wind Trough the Keyhole, absolute winner.
I've read 11 of these books and have three on my to read list.
Only 10 😖 But most of them are on my list... 💸
I've read only 6 but added a few to my "To Read" list.
and why is not Rowling listed, she has three wins as well, Fantastic Beasts, Cursed Child and Casual Vacancy.
Robert wrote: "None are books I would even read."Agreed. I don't read books written for teenagers nor do I read romance novels. Stephen King was alright when I was 12, but I tried to reread a Stephen King book in my twenties and got about 40 pages into it before thinking "Why am I reading this garbage?" and never picked up another book by him again.
I feel like we adults who read books written for our own age group are a dwindling minority and it really worries me that endless cookie-cutter, depoliticized dystopias with interchangeable teenage protagonists might be the future of novels.
I have read the Neil Gaiman books, and the Kate Atkinson (not shown here.)
I'm fascinated that the multiple winners here are clustered in just a few genres: fantasy/sf/horror/romance (note that it's romance with fantasy overtones). I wonder if this tells us about publishing habits (long story arcs go into multiple books in these genres) or reading habits (people keep reading the same stuff by authors who are willing to give it to them).There's no historical fiction. There are no mysteries. There are no westerns, so it's not just genre-fiction that matters; it's this (these) genres.
I'm always glad when people are excited about reading, but I got to say this is a disappointing list for me. I highly doubt many of these will stand the test of time.
Have only read two of the books on this list.
Nullifidian wrote: "Robert wrote: "None are books I would even read."Agreed. I don't read books written for teenagers nor do I read romance novels. Stephen King was alright when I was 12, but I tried to reread a Ste..."
Give Stephen King's The Mercedes Killer series a try It's more thriller than horror. I enjoyed all three books in the series (and like you I wasn't impressed with his earlier books.
Nothing here inspired me, other than King, who is already on my list.
Alexander wrote: "Read all 7 by Rick, IMO his HoO novels are deserving champions, while Magnus and Apollo are not as good. From King, I read Wind Trough the Keyhole, absolute winner."
What do you mean all of ricks books are good
Thanks for a great event. Great meeting you, Marie.
I saw the movies! LOL! That doesn’t really count, does it? I’m kidding. Almost all on my TBR. I’m ashamed.
Nullifidian wrote: "Robert wrote: "None are books I would even read."Agreed. I don't read books written for teenagers nor do I read romance novels. Stephen King was alright when I was 12, but I tried to reread a Ste..."
I also agree. There are very few books on this list that might begin to interest me. Something that might qualify as real literature or historical fiction would be worth a vote
So what happened to the best thrillers list? I would prefer that it be separated from mysteries but I will take what I can get.
Right. The problem with this list of of authors winning year after year, is that by definition, they're mostly cranking out a book a year or more--which almost always means genre, or YA/middle. That's great if those are your favorites, but it limits this list to a very narrow stretch. (I won the nonfiction category just once, because I only produced one book in that time. Granted, I'm slow, but most serious nonfiction books take several years, and so does most great fiction.)
There are great writers on the full list, but they mostly wrote a book or two in that time, not three to seven.
Nullifidian wrote: "Robert wrote: "None are books I would even read."
Agreed. I don't read books written for teenagers nor do I read romance novels. Stephen King was alright when I was 12, but I tried to reread a Ste..."
Other than reading a few Stephen King books years ago and Hunger Games, I don’t read these genres because none appeal to me. Thought I could find a new author or book selection on this list to pique my interest, but I was wrong. Very disappointing to find no literary, contemporary, thriller, adventure or non fiction listed.
None of those books i even thought about to read. But if you enjoy then i say good on you.
Janet wrote: "Other than reading a few Stephen King books years ago and Hunger Games, I don’t read these genres because none appeal to me. Thought I could find a new author or book selection on this list to piqu..."These are the genre books. Try Goodreads' "Best of the Best" nominees here. (And you can vote for my book, Columbine, if you like--or just find lots of great choices.)
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
Adger wrote: "I'm fascinated that the multiple winners here are clustered in just a few genres: fantasy/sf/horror/romance (note that it's romance with fantasy overtones). I wonder if this tells us about publishi..."I wondered the same thing. My favorites are historical fiction.
Ahhhh two of my all-time favourite authors are here and two more that I really like!! I've read 15, the others are on my TBR
read fifteen of these and added some of them to my tbr shelf!
