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Announcing the Winners of the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards!
More than 5 million votes were cast and counted in the 10th Annual Goodreads Choice Awards honoring the year's best books decided by you, the readers!
Now comes our favorite part: It's time to reveal the incredible winners across 21 categories, including our special tenth anniversary Best of the Best category, and time for some talented authors to celebrate.
We asked the winners of the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards to share photos of themselves reacting to their victories. Stephen King celebrated his double win for Best Mystery & Thriller and for Best Horror with his trusty corgi Molly, a.k.a. "the Thing of Evil." Meanwhile, Best Middle Grade & Children's Book winner Rick Riordan—who's now tied with King for the most Goodreads Choice Awards of all time—offered a mischievous thanks to his fans. And just wait until you see Tomi Adeyemi's playful victory pose (a wombat suit is involved) for her Best Debut Author win.
Congratulations to all of the best books of the year in each of the 21 categories!
Best Fiction: Still Me by Jojo Moyes
Best Historical Fiction: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Best Romance: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction: Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
Best Graphic Novels & Comics: Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen
Best Humor: The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Best Middle Grade & Children's: The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan
Best History & Biography: The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King
Best Poetry: The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace
Best Debut Author: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Best Science & Technology: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
Best Young Adult Fiction: Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
Thank you to all of the readers who make the Goodreads Choice Awards such a success every year! Happy reading!
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Bill Gates Picks His Favorite (and Highly Giftable) Books of 2018
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Second year that I root for Fredrik Backman and he doesn't win. 'Us Against You' is the best book I have read this year and I would be lying if I said that I was not disapponited that it didn't win. You are the winner of my heart Backman.
RICK RIORDAN IS AWESOME! THE BURNING MAZE WAS FANTASTIC!! THANK YOU!
I continually wonder WHY WHY WHY are mysteries & thrillers lumped into the same category when they are widely disparate. No fair!
Janet wrote: "I continually wonder WHY WHY WHY are mysteries & thrillers lumped into the same category when they are widely disparate. No fair!"I agree. I have arranged my bookshelves by genre, and mysteries, and thrillers, are on separate shelves.
I wonder how many of the people who voted for Elevation as Best HORROR actually read the book 😂
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!
Janet wrote: "I continually wonder WHY WHY WHY are mysteries & thrillers lumped into the same category when they are widely disparate. No fair!"I feel the same about superhero/superpower books being lumped in with science fiction (a superhero/superpower novel won for best sci-fi this year). I personally feel they are more fantasy than sci-fi. Should probably be their own genre.
Aw, Steve Brusatte's face. 😁 I attended his talk at the Edinburgh Book Festival this year, he's the loveliest guy! Big congrats to him!
I'm actually pretty happy with the results this year! Circe was excellent, as was Educated. My only dislike is with the 2 YA fantasy novels that won. I love Sarah J Maas but that was a very weak ending to an otherwise excellent series. Tomi Adeyemi wrote a pretty mediocre novel, it's only redeeming quality was the more diverse cast. I think since goodreads has a lot of YA readers I am not surprised that the Debut category was overtaken by a trendy YA book, even though it certainly wasn't the best debut of the selection.
Edit: Looking through past winners it appears that the debut category is often won by a YA title
OMG!!!! I am really excited! Four of my nominees won! And I didn't know Sarah J Maas was so pretty- Congratulations for your baby boy! Rick Riordan's comment was funny, though that's him, and he was right! The Burning Maze was a heart- breaker! First, he had to seperate Jiper, and then he had to kill Jason? I, mean, who does that kind of stuff?? (Though, a lot of authors to it, it's still not fair!) I really liked Romi's picture. Though, off the top of my head, I don't know what a Wombat is! Either way- CONGRATULATIONS!! I was waiting for these result all year!!
Was looking back at all of the authors, and this name caught my eye- Lovelace. Does that mean she's related to Simon?? She could be, you know. All stories are true!😋
Congratulations to all of the authors! Thank you for your talent and hard work! Excited to see the book about Mr. Rogers win!
Congrats to all but it's the last year im participating to this !!! Because some books were so much better then the one's that won, in my opinion.
Congrats. Loved that the Kiss Quotient and Stephen King won with the Mister Rogers book too.
I voted for Pierce Brown out of loyalty but if I'm honest Iron Gold wasn't as good as his other books, so not surprising it didn't win. Intrigued by Vengeful, think I'll have to try this series.
Kaitlynn wrote: "OMG!!!! I am really excited! Four of my nominees won! And I didn't know Sarah J Maas was so pretty- Congratulations for your baby boy! Rick Riordan's comment was funny, though that's him, and he wa..."I haven't read The Burning Maze, but sounds like you gave away an important and emotional plot twist. If so, that is very disappointing.
I couldn’t agree more 😂, how many of you who voted for King’s ‘Elevation’ actually read it? That is not a horror novel.
Janet wrote: "I continually wonder WHY WHY WHY are mysteries & thrillers lumped into the same category when they are widely disparate. No fair!"I agree, if fantasy and scifi are separate, mystery and thriller should be too!
I've always confined my votes to books I've actually read, so consequently, I sometimes don't vote at all. I get a strong sense that many voters cast their ballots for books they haven't actually read. Votes can often be cast for authors with a strong reputation, like Stephen King or, in the case of biographies and memoirs for favorite subjects, like Fred Rogers, or Michelle Obama. Worst of all is voting for a title for a politically correct reason.
Thriller, Horror, and Mystery are all different genres. No disrespect but its frustrating when lists are combined.
Janet wrote: "I continually wonder WHY WHY WHY are mysteries & thrillers lumped into the same category when they are widely disparate. No fair!"I agree. Mystery, thriller, and horror are very different genres.
Lisa wrote: "I vote every year, and enjoy seeing who wins. This year, just like last, I'm slightly pissed off about who won what in certain categories. Elevation, by Steve King in horror? Nope. No way, Jose! Sa..."Lisa, I didn't read Elevation (I did not vote for anything I did not read), but I did read The Outsider and voted for it. That said, I agree about John Connolly - an excellent writer (interesting that Connolly spent time in Maine, King's home state).
As for the boundaries of categories, I recall in King's Dance Macabre he wrote of Sleeping Beauty (the late 1950s movie, not Sleeping Beauties, which I did not read) being one of the scariest movies he'd seen as a child/youth, which I had to stop and consider. And he was right, even though most of us didn't, and still don't, think of it that way - Sleeping Beauty is generally regarded as a fairy tale or children's story. My point is, where do these boundaries get drawn? There is a line between fantasy/horror/science fiction, but there is at the same time a lot of overlap in those three categories.
My larger point is a question. Why does something like this piss you off, slightly, totally, or at all?
The real winners should be the books where the total number of votes they receive comes closest to the total number of ratings they have. Otherwise, the winner is just the most read book. The Great Alone is a perfect example of this. Less than half of the people who read it voted for it, whereas, in The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 91% of the people who read it voted for it.
I haven't totally forgiven you, Uncle Rick, but congrats on the win. You are an excellent writer.
Hannah wrote: "I haven't totally forgiven you, Uncle Rick, but congrats on the win. You are an excellent writer."Stephanie wrote: "Second year that I root for Fredrik Backman and he doesn't win. 'Us Against You' is the best book I have read this year and I would be lying if I said that I was not disapponited that it didn't win..."
I agree with Stephanie. Us Against you was the best read of 218
Stephanie wrote: "Second year that I root for Fredrik Backman and he doesn't win. 'Us Against You' is the best book I have read this year and I would be lying if I said that I was not disapponited that it didn't win..."
Rafael wrote: "I wonder how many of the people who voted for Elevation as Best HORROR actually read the book 😂"I think it’s safe to assume that many users voted for books they haven’t read.
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Rick Riordan is the best!! Please come back to Italy.
Stephen King doesn't just write horror but I think maybe only the "constant readers" realize that. I am still surprised at the number of people who love the movie the Green Mile and when I say he wrote it they are shocked.
I WAS PRAYING FOR SARAJ J MAAS TO WIN!!!
xD
P.S. Rick Riordan is also the best!
:D