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Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards!
The votes are in! More than 3 million votes were cast in the 7th annual Goodreads Choice Awards! Readers rallied to support their favorite books, voting for more than 20,000 different books in the Opening Round, and now just one winner in each of 20 categories remains. Congratulations to the best books of the year!
View the champions & runners-up in 20 categories »
The biggest publishing surprise of 2015, Go Set a Watchman, takes home the top honors in Best Fiction—a testament to the great love readers have for To Kill a Mockingbird's legacy. And the biggest publishing success of 2015, mega-bestseller The Girl on the Train, won Best Mystery & Thriller in a landslide, taking out both Stephen King and J.K. Rowling. Not to be missed, one of 2015's top-rated books, World War II saga The Nightingale, won handily in Best Historical Fiction.
We all must be seeking love, or at least needing to laugh about it, because voters chose Aziz Ansari's dissection of 21st-century dating, Modern Romance, as Best Nonfiction. He's joined by another comedian winner in Best Humor, where Mindy Kaling takes the prize for her essay collection, Why Not Me?. This year's Choice Awards saw a robust crop of books by YouTubers in multiple categories, and voters crowned 23-year-old video star Connor Franta a winner in Best Memoir & Autobiography for his book A Work in Progress. The newcomer earned his stripes alongside long-time reader favorite Erik Larson, who took first place in Best History & Biography for Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.
Hop on the train! A big thank you from Best Mystery & Thriller winner Paula Hawkins!
Heart in her hands, Best Humor winner Mindy Kaling.
In Best Romance, it took fan favorite Colleen Hoover, author of Confess, to upset 2012 Choice Winner E.L. James. But repeat winners reigned supreme in Best Fantasy and Best Science Fiction, where Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning and Pierce Brown's Golden Son each delivered a win. And after multiple nominations for their respective series, Dean Koontz won for Saint Odd in Best Horror and Brian K. Vaughan earned first place for Saga, Volume 4 in Best Graphic Novels & Comics.
Here's a whole shelf full of gratitude from Best Romance winner Colleen Hoover!
Heartfelt appreciation from Best Science Fiction winner Pierce Brown.
Age is just a number. The winners of the Young Adult and Children's categories all have major crossover appeal. All the Bright Places tops the list in Best Young Adult Fiction; the latest book in the Throne of Glass series, Queen of Shadows, edged out strong competition in Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction; and another Young Adult Fantasy contender, Red Queen, pulled out a win over in Best Debut Goodreads Author. Voters couldn't contain their excitement for Rick Riordan's new series starter The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1), making this year's prize in Best Middle Grade & Children's his fifth consecutive win! And finally The Day the Crayons Came Home keeps everyone smiling as the winner of Best Picture Books.
Best Young Adult Fiction winner Jennifer Niven has a Post-it note with your name on it.
Best Young Adult Fantasy winner Sarah J. Maas poses with her Throne of Glass heroine...or is that her alter ego?
Rick Riordan's dog Speedy is pretty excited about The Sword of Summer winning Best Children's.
Other winners include Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish for Best Science & Technology, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime for Best Food & Cookbooks, and The Dogs I Have Kissed for Best Poetry.
How many of the winners and runners-up have you read? Check out the full vote breakdown for the top 400 nominees across 20 categories, and start packing your want-to-read list with award-winners!
Congratulations to our winners! »
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I need one of those Queen of Shadows poster board cut outs:D
This post is the cat's pajamas. Congratulations to all the talented (and absolutely adorable I must say) winners.
Hands down, 2015 was filled with amazing books. Thank youuuuuuu! ♥♥
25 most-voted fiction books [plus I put the top 2 Debut choices in brackets]106k Girl on the Train*
57k Nightingale*
[47k Red Queen*]
44k Magnus Chase*
36k Queen of Shadows*
35k Confess*
34k Trigger Warning*
32k Bright Places*
32k Golden Son*
31k Darker Shade of Magic*
31k Go Set a Watchman*
30k Carry On*
28k Winter*
28k Red Queen*
26k PS*
26k Heir*
25k Finders Keepers*
[24k Ember*]
24k Grey*
20k Shadows*
20k After You*
19k Saga*
18k Court of Thorns*
18k Shadows of Self*
18k Saint Odd*
17k Nimona*
17k Uprooted*
I was asterisking authors I'd read as I went along, and I've read all of said authors. If not necessarily their winning books.
Rebecca ♥ Matrim, Kishan, Warner ♥ wrote: "Hey, Pierce Brown is hot. Totally not what I should be focusing on, but whatever. :P"I was looking for a comment like this! It's crazy how hot he is, he's the reason why I clicked on this blog post so fast! :P
Julia wrote: "Okay, Pierce Brown is strangely good-looking. Haven't read Red Rising yet, though."Same, haha! It doesn't change anything about his book (which has been on my reading list for a while anyways) but he's definitely attractive.
Everyone talking about Harper Lee, let's talk about Collen Hoover!Me first (i know i am not the first)!
Confess sucks.
My theory is that every bad-plot-with-simple-and-predictable (not counting worst-writing and worst-romance) fan here voted por Conffess.
Congratulations.
Zeeshan wrote: "Congrats all winners.Glad for Pierce Brown (#GoldenSon) and Paula Hawkins (#TheGirlOnTheTrain) winning awards. Well deserved.
There is a decline in total votes cast this year as compared to last..."
I for example didn't vote because I haven't read any of the nominated titles. I tried to reduce my tower of unread books before I buy new ones.
I see Mr. Gaiman's cult of personality has put him over the top again. That his book of hit and miss short stories overtook much more creative, well written, and expansive books is extremely disappointing.
Congratulations to the winners. So wonderful!Ron Baratono
Julia wrote: "Okay, Pierce Brown is strangely good-looking. Haven't read Red Rising yet, though."Lol he does look hot.
Inken wrote: "I hope I don't sound mean-spirited, but this contest needs serious changes. For one thing, Goodreads absolutely HAS to stop nominating books that don't publish until the month of the contest. How c..."I agree!
Rebecca ♥ Matrim, Kishan, Warner ♥ wrote: "Hey, Pierce Brown is hot. Totally not what I should be focusing on, but whatever. :P"I know, right? Shemurr.
I wonder if Pierce Brown would've managed to beat Sarah Maas if he were in what I think would be the correct categorization, YA Fantasy. With an average book at that."I see Mr. Gaiman's cult of personality has put him over the top again." - Well, the runner-up is A Darker Shade, which is average in quality, so I don't mind.
This post made my heart go all jumpy jumpy :33
Mansu wrote: "Go Set a Watchman won the Best Fiction Award. WTH?! Is this somebody's idea of a joke? There were far better books in that category. Disappointed."
Agreed. I was surprised.
Interesting set of winning books this year--for the most part, I agree wholeheartedly with them. I especially loved Dead Wake and The Nightingale, and it was nice to see those books win. Like a lot of other commenters, though, I really can't believe Go Set a Watchman got Best Fiction--frankly, it doesn't deserve it.
Justsane wrote: "How incredibly disappointing to find To Set A Watchman on this list."Spot on. I couldn't figure out how to vote against it. It wasn't great
Rebecca ♥ Matrim, Kishan, Warner ♥ wrote: "Hey, Pierce Brown is hot. Totally not what I should be focusing on, but whatever. :P"You are not alone, my friend.
Rebecca ♥ Matrim, Kishan, Warner ♥ wrote: "Hey, Pierce Brown is hot. Totally not what I should be focusing on, but whatever. :P"Ehehe..Exactly my first thought. He's really hot. Congratulations to all winners
I didn't actually vote for her, because I hadn't read her book (and still haven't although I plan to soon), but I'm so pleased that Mindy won for best humour. She always puts so much care, effort and hard work into all of her projects and it always shows. Through her writing on The Office and The Mindy Project, to her first book 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me', and even into her performances. It makes me so happy to see all her hard work paying off and to see her getting the recognition that she deserves. I'm so excited to read the book and I'm sure I'm going to love it.
Nawww Sarah J Maas is such a cutie!!! ^_^ Love her to bits. Congratulations to all winners!!!
This is the first year I was really disappointed with some of the winners. To echo everyone else, "Go Set a Watchman" chosen best fiction over books like "A Little Life"? Come on.And I enjoyed Aziz Ansari's book, but to say that it was better than "Between the World and Me" seems utterly crazed.
Thrilled about "All the Bright Places," though.
Maybe there should be a popular vote category so some of these books can win for their popularity rather than their actual quality.
Congrats to all the winners!! SO happy Sarah and Rick won, they're amazing writers. Xx
I wish Victoria Aveyard hadn't won sh*t. I like her book but I don't like her ass at all. She always acts like a B when people ask her questions on here and on Twitter.
Ugh, they should call this contest the Goodreads Popularity Book Contest of the year... because that is EXACTLY what this is. I agree with Larry, "A Little Life" and "Between the World and Me" should have HANDS down won over Watchman and Aziz. I wish they could prevent people from voting on books that they haven't read (might be the underlying problem) - I'm sure it's possible to write in a code saying it has to be on your "read" bookshelf.
Didn't feel that any of the choices I read from the Goodreads list merited any awards....particularly Go set a Watchman and Girl on a Train. The former would never have seen the inside of a publishing house without the cachet of the author's name and the latter though entertaining required little to no gray matter and just a little basic English......perhaps you need to qualify the difference between a "good read" and good literature....next year why not look outside of the popular mass market choices....something you obviously didn't do this year!!!
Congrats to all the winners especially Colleen Hoover for her book Confess can't wait to read it. Is in my wish list for 2016.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. I was on my library's wait list to read "Career of Evil" by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) for over 4 weeks. It came out I believe 2 months before the voting, but I still didn't have time to read it before I had to vote. Books nominated should have to have been available for a least 2 full months before voting begins.
Fantastic! I love the beautiful smiles on all of these amazing authors! Congrats to all of the winners! :D
No offense and all, but I don't think Maas should have beem allowed to have two books nominated. I know they were in different categories. Granted they were in two different categories but how does Goodreads choose the books in the first place?I know, beat me up and yell at me over the Internet because I'm a horrible person. I can take it. >_<
To the authors,Thank you for creating such amazing stories for us to read.
ahhhhh, they all SLAYED!! BEST AUTHORS EVERRRR
Wonderful! I really want to read that book by Mindy Kaling in particular :)
I am so thrilled that one of my favorite authors, Rick Riordan, had been honored like this. I have been waiting for Magnus Chase to start for a year now. It was even more than I had hoped for. I am also happy for Sarah Maas who is quickly rising to the top of my favorite fantasy author list.
Agreed. One author= One book nominated. Sanderson also had two books nominated.
