Choice Awards for 2017
The 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards were announced yesterday. This award is voted upon by readers and consists of an opening round, semifinal round, and a final round. Congratulations to all the winners. Did any of your favorites win? Let me know in the comments below.
Best Fiction goes to Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng with 39,077 votes
Best Mystery and Thriller goes to Into the Water by Paula Hawkins with 48,247 votes
Best Historical Fiction goes to Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate with 29,431 votes
Best Fantasy goes to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling with 92,611 votes
Best Romance goes to Without Merit by Colleen Hoover with 32,241 votes
Best Science Fiction goes to Artemis by Andy Weir with 33,957 votes
Best Horror goes to Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King with 50,519 votes
Best Humor goes to Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between by Lauren Graham with 48,077 votes
Best Nonfiction goes to How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life by Lilly Singh with 25,891 votes
Best Memoir & Autobiography goes to What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton with 30,866 votes
Best History and Biography goes to The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore with 24,696 votes
Best Science and Technology goes to Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson with 42,173 votes
Best Food and Cookbooks goes to The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It! Simple, Scrumptious Recipes for Crazy Busy Lives by Ree Drummond with 23,994 votes
Best Graphic Novels and Comics goes to Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen with 26,647 votes
Best Poetry goes to The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur with 35,856 votes
Best Debut Goodreads Author goes to The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas with 74,925 votes
Best Young Adult Fiction goes to The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas with 59,571 votes
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction goes to A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas with 71,165 votes
Best Middle Grade and Children’s goes to The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan with
34,516 votes
Best Picture Books goes to We’re All Wonders by R.J. Palacio with 24,470 votes
For a complete list of all books nominated visit the Goodreads Best Books of 2017 post. There you will find a complete list of nominees and the number of votes recorded for each work.
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…if my allcaps do say so.