Goodreads Readers Choice Awards 2017
Best Fiction:
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
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Runner Up: Bear Town, Fredrik Bagkman
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Best Mystery & Thriller:
Into the Water, Paula Hawkins
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Runner Up: Origin, Dan Brown
Best Historical Fiction:
Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate
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Runner Up: Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
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Buy Lincoln in the Bardo on Amazon
Best Fantasy:
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, J.K. Rowling
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Runner Up: Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
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Best Romance:
Without Merit, Colleen Hoover
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Runner Up: Come Sundown, Nora Roberts
Best Science Fiction:
Artemis, Andy Weir
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Runner Up: Waking Gods, Sylvain Neuvel
Best Horror:
Sleeping Beauties, Stephen King & Owen King
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Runner Up: Final Girls, Riley Sager
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Best Humor:
Talking As Fast As I Can, Lauren Graham
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Runner Up: I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons, Kevin Hart
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Buy I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons on Amazon
Best Nonfiction:
How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life, Lilly Singh
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Runner Up: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Best Memoir & Autobiography:
What Happened, Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Runner Up: Hunger, Roxane Gay
Best History & Biography:
Radium Girls, Kate Moore
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Runner Up: Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
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Best Science & Technology:
Astrophysics For People in a Hurry, Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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Runner Up: Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story, Angela Saini
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Best Food & Cookbooks:
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It! Simple, Scrumptious Recipes for Crazy Busy Lives, Ree Drummon
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Runner Up: 5 Ingredients, Jamie Oliver
Best Graphic Novels & Comics:
Big Mushy Happy Lump, Sarah Andersen
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Runner Up: Wonder Woman, Volume 1: The Lies, Greg Rucka
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Best Poetry:
The Sun and Her Flowers, Rupi Kaur
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Runner Up: Depression and Other Magic Tricks, Sabrina Benaim
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Best Debut Goodreads Author:
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
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Runner Up: Caraval, Stephanie Garber
Best Young Adult Fiction:
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
Runner Up: Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
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*As Angie Thomas’, The Hate U Give, won two of the reader’s choice categories (congrats Angie!), information given here is listed for the runner up novel
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction:
A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
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Runner Up: Lord of Shadows, Cassandra Clare
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Best Middle Grade & Children’s:
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Rick Riordan
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Runner Up: The Trials of Apollo, Rick Riordan
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Best Picture Books:
We’re All Wonders, R.J. Palacio
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Runner Up: Malala’s Magic Pencil, Malala Yousafzai
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Congratulations to all the winners, runners up, and everyone who had a book featured in the Goodreads Readers Choice Contest for 2017!
All the pictures included in this post came from Goodreads. Make sure you check out the books on this list and if you’ve read any of them let me know what ones you think are worth the read!
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