2020 BooktubeSFF Awards Winners
The sixth annual BooktubeSFF Awards winners were announced in an online ceremony on August 30, 2020. The winners were voted on separately by readers and judges. For categories with differing results, both selections were named as winners.
Best Science Fiction
- WINNER: A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
- Recursion, Blake Crouch (Crown)
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
Best Fantasy
- WINNER: Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
- The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
Best Young Adult
- WINNER (judges’ vote): The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi (Wednesday)
- WINNER (popular vote): Sorcery of Thorns, Margaret Rogerson (McElderry)
- The Wicked King, Holly Black (Little, Brown)
- Starsight, Brandon Sanderson (Delacorte)
Best Middle Grade
- WINNER: Sal & Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney/Hyperion)
- Dead Voices, Katherine Arden (Putnam)
- Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney/Hyperion)
- Tunnel of Bones, Victoria Schwab (Scholastic)
Best Debut Novel
- WINNER: A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook)
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
Best Short Work
- WINNER: (popular vote) To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager)
- WINNER: (judges’ vote) This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
- The Test, Sylvain Neuvel (Tor.com Publishing)
For more information, see the award website.
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