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Goodreads Choice Winners and Nominees Book List

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Fiction
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
The Guncle by Stephen Rowley
Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters
Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
We Are The Brennans by Tracey Lange
The One Hundred Years of Leni and Margot by Marrianne Cronin
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
One Two Three by Laurie Frankel


Mystery and Thriller
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Billy Summer by Stephen King
The Push by Ashley Audrain
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Rock Paper Scissor by Alice Feeney
Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
The Survivors by Jane Harper
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
We Begin at the End by Chris Witaker
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
Every Last Secret by A. R. Torre
All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris


Historical Fiction
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Lost Apothecary by Sara Penner
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
The Lincoln Highway by Amore Towles
The Paris Librarian by Janet Skeslien Charles
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris


Fantasy
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune
The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Witches Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
The Inheritance by Orquidea Divina
The Shadow of the Gods by John Gywnne
For the Wolf by Hannah Witten
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
Malice by Heather Walter
The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
The Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
The Unbroken by C. L. Clark

Romance
People we Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
Neon Gods by Katee Roberts
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
Life’s Too Short by Abby Jimenez
Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne
The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory
The Dating Plan by Sara Desai
Shipped by Angie Hockman
How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams


Science Fiction
Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Fugitive Telemetry by Marta Wells
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Rabbits by Terry Miles
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Constance by Matthew Fitzsimmons
The Last Watch by J. S. Dewes
Termination Shock by Stephenson
Appleseed by Matt Bell
Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Machinehood by S. B. Divya


Horror
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Later by Stephen King
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
All’s Well by Mona Awad
The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
Crackle by Rachel Harrison
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
Bloodline by Jesse Lourey
Near the Bone by Christina Henry
The Hallows by Mark Edwards
This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
When The Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi
Where They Wait by Scott Carson


Humor
Broken by Jenny Lawson
How Y’all Doing? by Leslie Jordan
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman
Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
Barely Functioning Adult by Meichi Ng
Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris
Well, This is Exhausting by Sophie Benoit
Subpar Parks by Amber Share
Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner
She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
The Wreckage of my Presence by Casey Wilson
Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light by Helen Ellis
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff
Black Nerd Problems by William Evans
The Particulars of Peter by Kelly Conaboy
How to Survive America by D. L. Hughley
New Teeth by Simon Rich
Big Time by Jen Spyra


Nonfiction
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry
Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
Think Again by Adam Grant
Fuzz by Mary Roach
Last Call by Elon Green
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Remember by Lisa Genova
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
The Premonition by Michael Lewis
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraquib
Chatter by Ethan Cross
Paradise by Lizzie Johnson
Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert


Memoir and Autobiography
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashely C. Ford
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Notes on Grief by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie
Unbound by Tarana Burke
Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
Broken Horse by Brandi Carlile
Brat: an 80’s Story by Andrew McCarthy
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Hola Papi! by John Paul Brammer
Beautiful Things by Hunter Biden
The Puma Years by Laura Coleman
Bravey by Alexi Pappas
Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow
Finding Freedom by Erin French
Widowish by Melissa Gould
Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu
House of Sticks by Ly Tran

History and Biography
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
The Codebreaker by Walter Isaacson
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi
Vanderbuilt by Anderson Cooper
Come Fly the World by Julia Cooke
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura
The Light of Days by Julie Batalion
The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
The Three Mothers by Anna Malika Tubbs
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz
Walking in My Combat Boots by James Patterson
Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton
Bag Man by Rachel Maddow
The Taking of Jemima Boone by Matthew Pearl
Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown
Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone
Zero Fail by Carol Leonnig

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

The Wish by Nicholas Sparks

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune

The Lost Apothecary by Sara Penner

Later by Stephen King

Fuzz by Mary Roach

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci