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posted by Cybil on December, 04
Meet The Winners Of The 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards
The 16th Annual Goodreads Choice Awards are now official! With a new record of more than 6.2 million votes cast, the 2024 awards continue the Goodreads tradition of honoring readers’ favorite books of the year.
This time around, we’ve got 15 separate categories with 300 nominated books total. You can find the winners in each listed below, along with a link to all the nominated books in that category.
Alert readers will note that several returning winners are featured this year. Emily Henry scored her fourth Readers’ Favorite Romance win in a row with Funny Story (soon to be a movie, apparently). Stephen King’s short fiction collection You Like It Darker took the Horror prize, giving King a total of 11 career wins across four categories over the years.
Other returning winners include Kristin Hannah, T.J. Klune, Sarah J. Maas, Alice Oseman, and Rebecca Ross. We had a few landslide victories this year, including Hannah’s historical fiction novel The Women, Kelly Bishop’s memoir, The Third Gilmore Girl, and Kaliane Bradley’s debut sci-fi adventure, The Ministry of Time.
Congratulations to all the nominees—thank you most sincerely for giving us another year of great reading. Thanks, too, to the global Goodreads community and everyone who voted. And now, the winners of the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards…
This time around, we’ve got 15 separate categories with 300 nominated books total. You can find the winners in each listed below, along with a link to all the nominated books in that category.
Alert readers will note that several returning winners are featured this year. Emily Henry scored her fourth Readers’ Favorite Romance win in a row with Funny Story (soon to be a movie, apparently). Stephen King’s short fiction collection You Like It Darker took the Horror prize, giving King a total of 11 career wins across four categories over the years.
Other returning winners include Kristin Hannah, T.J. Klune, Sarah J. Maas, Alice Oseman, and Rebecca Ross. We had a few landslide victories this year, including Hannah’s historical fiction novel The Women, Kelly Bishop’s memoir, The Third Gilmore Girl, and Kaliane Bradley’s debut sci-fi adventure, The Ministry of Time.
Congratulations to all the nominees—thank you most sincerely for giving us another year of great reading. Thanks, too, to the global Goodreads community and everyone who voted. And now, the winners of the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards…
The year’s surprise sensation, Alison Espach’s improbably fun novel follows the adventures of a severely bummed out young woman who finds herself accidentally crashing a lavish wedding at a posh Rhode Island inn. Readers love Espach’s twisty tonal shifts—from high drama to screwball comedy of manners—and the ultimate moral of her story: Go with the flow; who knows what might happen?
See all of this year’s Fiction nominees here.
See all of this year’s Fiction nominees here.
An insightful meditation on courage, character, and women gone to war, Kristin Hannah’s novel introduces idealistic Army nurse Frances “Frankie” McGrath as she volunteers in Vietnam, circa 1965. Incredibly, her life gets even more complicated when she returns to a dangerously divided America. Hannah has two GCA awards on her shelf already, for 2015’s The Nightingale and 2018’s The Great Alone.
See all of this year’s Historical Fiction nominees here.
See all of this year’s Historical Fiction nominees here.
In 1975, troubled teenager Barbara Van Laar vanished from her bunk at the summer camp owned by her wealthy family. Making things so much worse: Her older brother disappeared much the same way, 16 years ago. Author Liz Moore expands this intriguing premise into an emotionally engaging mystery that blends elements of crime fiction, psychological suspense, and complex family drama.
See all of this year’s Mystery & Thriller nominees here.
See all of this year’s Mystery & Thriller nominees here.
Romance queen Emily Henry takes home her fourth consecutive GCA with Funny Story, an instructive modern parable about a heartbroken librarian who attempts an extremely tricky maneuver: hooking up with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex. (Very dangerous—don’t try this at home.) Hollywood trade reports suggest that Henry will be writing her own screenplay for the upcoming film adaptation.
See all of this year’s Romance nominees here.
See all of this year’s Romance nominees here.
This is the eighth Goodreads Choice Award for genre veteran Sarah J. Maas, who’s made a habit of winning in the YA and Fantasy categories. Maas' first award for Romantasy, House of Flame and Shadow is the third installment of her popular Crescent City series, featuring sexy fallen angels and the mortals who love them.
See all of this year’s Romantasy nominees here.
See all of this year’s Romantasy nominees here.
In the sequel to 2020’s much-admired The House in the Cerulean Sea, author T.J. Klune returns to the mysterious orphanage on Marsyas Island and its menagerie of magical children and creatures. Klune’s queer-friendly themes of unconditional love and found family have attracted a loyal readership. (He also won last year’s Science Fiction GCA for In the Lives of Puppets.)
See all of this year’s Fantasy nominees here.
See all of this year’s Fantasy nominees here.
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to fall in love with a 19th-century polar explorer, author Kaliane Bradley has the book for you. The Ministry of Time is a delightfully playful twist on the time-travel romance, with elements of workplace comedy, roommate drama, espionage, and temporal physics. Stay tuned: It's also Bradley's debut novel.
See all of this year’s Science Fiction nominees here.
See all of this year’s Science Fiction nominees here.
Maine’s resident gentleman maniac returns with a short story collection on the abiding terrors of the human condition—fate and mortality, tragedy and violence. Also: rattlesnakes. King is the king of the horror novel, of course, but he’s a master of short fiction, too, and many are calling this collection his finest yet. This makes his 11th win across Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, and Science Fiction.
See all of this year’s Horror nominees here.
See all of this year’s Horror nominees here.
Yulin Kuang’s romance debut features two writers with a tragic past who reunite on the TV adaptation of a famous book series. Kuang’s story gets complicated—like life itself—but she navigates the tricky terrain with emotional intelligence and an interesting dual-POV approach. Fun crossover trivia: Kuang is the writer-director of the upcoming film adaptation of Beach Read, by this year’s Romance and Audiobook categories winner, Emily Henry.
See all of this year’s Debut Novel nominees here.
See all of this year’s Debut Novel nominees here.
It’s Emily Henry again! This year’s Romance GCA winner scores a double win for Funny Story with the Audiobook award. It's also a win for fellow author and audiobook narrator Julia Whelan. Much beloved in the audiobook community, Whelan is a former actor with that magical ability to deepen and enrich any story she narrates. She’s also a wizard with accents.
See all of this year’s Audiobook nominees here.
See all of this year’s Audiobook nominees here.
A second win for Rebecca Ross! The sequel to last year’s winner in this category, Ruthless Vows concludes her unique story about the horrors of war, the power of love, and the benefit of regular correspondence. With a little magic shimmering around the edges, Ross does interesting new things by crossing the enemies-to-lovers romance template with a steampunk-adjacent setting and heavier themes.
See all of this year’s YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi nominees here.
See all of this year’s YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi nominees here.
Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper series has evolved into a multimedia storytelling institution, with the Netflix adaptation bringing a new generation of fans to the original graphic novel series. Volume Five continues the boy-meets-boy saga of Nick and Charlie, an empathetic coming-of-age story that dares to explore the eternal question of How Love Works.
See all of this year’s YA Fiction nominees here.
See all of this year’s YA Fiction nominees here.
In what may be the year’s most discussed book, Jonathan Haidt provides a rigorously researched assessment of adolescent mental health in the 21st century. The depressing diagnosis: The arrival of the “phone-based childhood” is essentially rewiring the very experience of growing up. The good news: Haidt has some specific suggestions for parents, schools, tech companies, and governments.
See all of this year’s Nonfiction nominees here.
See all of this year’s Nonfiction nominees here.
Versatile actress Kelly Bishop authored the year’s most surprisingly resonant memoir, a candid reflection on a remarkable life in Hollywood, on Broadway, and various points in between. A natural-born storyteller, Bishop dishes on her time as family matriarch in the early-2000s TV touchstone The Gilmore Girls. But she’s got some incredible off-screen stories, too, told with style and humor and hard-won wisdom.
See all of this year’s Memoir & Autobiography nominees here.
See all of this year’s Memoir & Autobiography nominees here.
Readers’ Favorite History & Biography: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by Evan Friss
by Evan Friss
Author Evan Friss’ loving chronicle of the American bookstore digs deep into history to illuminate the soft power of these irreplaceable literary institutions. He makes a persuasive case that bookstores nurture and create local communities, each of which branches out into our culture, discourse, and public policy. Also, cats love bookstores—and they’re always right about everything.
See all of this year’s History & Biography nominees here.
See all of this year’s History & Biography nominees here.
Thank you to all the readers who make the Goodreads Choice Awards such a success every year! Happy reading!
posted by Cybil on December, 04
