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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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Congratulations to all the authors that were nominated and to those that won in their category.
Congrats to them, but I didn't read, or vote for any of them.
My goodness. Is Pierce Brown married? He is fine!
Jenny wrote: "A hearty Congrats to all the talented winners. Well Done."My only vote was for Chris Colfer's Land of Stories
I'm so glad that the books I've voted (All the Bright Places and The Girl on the Train) won in this competition! you deserve it! And also congratulations to the other winners as well:)
Can Rick Riordan just continue writing books and keep winning every year? Please?
I love Colleen Hoover's Selfie. There's so many things going on in that picture XD. Love her. :)
congratulation to all.all You are great...
Continue your Lovely writing..
So happy Queen of Shadows won. I love all the books Sarah has published so far and I cannot wait for ACOMAF and ToG5!
Mansu wrote: "I bet, it won just because it was the most popular of them all.."i feel the same about Sarah j. Maas i loathe her books, so badly written!!!
Rebecca ♥ Matrim, Kishan, Warner ♥ wrote: "Hey, Pierce Brown is hot. Totally not what I should be focusing on, but whatever. :P"I know, right. I love his books too - winning combination!
So excited about this list of winners!!!Of the winners, I've read and absolute LOVED:
All the Bright Places
Confess
The Girl on the Train
and on my TBR are Mindy Kaling and Sarah J. Maas since I've loved other books of theirs. Oh! also on my TBR, cause obvs, is Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari.
I'm super excited about this list and congrats to all the authors!!!
Also... can we just talk for a tiny second about how cute Pierce Brown is??? I mean, come on!!
Honorable mention to: The Day the Crayons Came Home, cause even though I have zero reasons to read children's books, if I did, this would certainly be a book I pick up. It always catches my eye at Target and makes me wish I knew tiny children.
Ezinwanyi~Boo boo kitty wrote: "My goodness. Is Pierce Brown married? He is fine!"LOL I thought the same thing about his appearance. Wonder how many others did? That's funny. At least I wasn't the only one who noticed and paused on his picture.
Julia wrote: "Okay, Pierce Brown is strangely good-looking. Haven't read Red Rising yet, though."my exact thoughts!! I had no idea who he was prior to this... but I'm curious now.
Mansu wrote: "Rebecca ♥ Matrim, Kishan, Warner ♥ wrote: "Hey, Pierce Brown is hot. Totally not what I should be focusing on, but whatever. :P"Lol! :-D"
I wanted to read his books before, but now they're higher on my list. I agree. Not where the focus should be, but it doesn't hurt. People with talent and the guts to see a series through are more interesting. If they are also well groomed and styled, that doesn't do any harm.
Also authors being nominated twice. uggggggggh.
