2020 Goodreads Choice Awards

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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