2018 Goodreads Choice Awards
Winners of the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards for the “best books of 2018” as chosen by users of the site, were announced December 4, 2018. There are several winners of genre interest:
Best Mystery & Thriller
The Outsider, Stephen King (Scribner) 62,170 votesBest Science Fiction
Vengeful, V.E. Schwab (Tor) 49,563 votesBest Fantasy
Circe, Madeline Miller (Little, Brown) 78,733 votesBest Horror
Elevation, Stephen King (Scribner) 39,616 votesBest Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
Kingdom of Ash, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury) 68,782 votesBest Middle Grade & Children’s
The Burning Maze, Rick Riordan (Disney/Hyperion) 42,529 votesBest Debut Author
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt) 70,984 votes
Goodreads reported 5,027,741 total votes cast, up from 3,887,625 total votes in 2017 and 3,564,098 in 2016. For the full list of categories and nominees, see the official website.