2020 Goodreads Choice Awards
Winners of the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards for the “best books of 2020,” as chosen by users of the site, have been announced. There are several winners of genre interest.
Best Fiction
- The Midnight Library, Matt Haig (Viking) 72,828 votes
Best Fantasy
- House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury) 95,084 votes
Best Science Fiction
- To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, Christopher Paolini (Tor) 45,833 votes
Best Horror
- Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) 85,626 votes
Best Young Adult Fantasy
- The Queen of Nothing, Holly Black (Little, Brown) 62,771 votes
Best Romance
- From Blood and Ash, Jennifer L. Armentrout (Blue Box) 70,896 votes
Best Humor
- Strange Planet, Nathan W. Pyle (Morrow Gift) 45,156 votes
Best Middle Grade & Children’s
- The Tower of Nero, Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion) 49,341 votes
Best Poetry
- Dearly, Margaret Atwood (Ecco) 22,811 votes
Goodreads reported 5,674,480 total votes cast, up from 4,659,701 in 2019. For the full list of categories and nominees, see the official website.
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