2017 Goodreads Choice Awards

Published December 11, 2017 | By urgaz

Winners of the 2017 Goodreads Choice awards for the “best books of 2017” as chosen by users of the site, were announced December 5, 2017. There are several winners of genre interest:

Best Historical Fiction

Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate (Ballantine) 29,431 votes

Best Science Fiction

Artemis, Andy Weir (Crown) 33,957 votes

Best Fantasy

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, J.K. Rowling (Levine) 92,611 votes

Best Horror

Sleeping Beauties, Stephen King & Owen King (Scribner) 50,519 votes

Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Children’s) 71,165 votes

Best Middle Grade & Children’s

The Ship of the Dead, Rick Riordan (Disney/Hyperion) 34,516 votes

Goodreads reported 3,887,625 total votes cast, up from 3,564,098 total votes in 2016 and 3,007,748 in 2015. For the full list of categories and nominees, see the official website.

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