Today is the day! The votes have been tallied, and it is time to find out which books came out on top in what has been a crazy year. Which books of 2020 have been voted as the favorites for the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards? And also, how many of those had their own moment on this blog?
And immediately, we have Fredrik Backman's Anxious People barely, and I mean barely, losing out to Matt Haig's The Midnight Library for Best Fiction...by five votes. Wow.
However, the race for Best Historical Fiction was not close at all, as Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half takes that win easily. And the same can be said for Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia as it wins handily for Best Horror.
I could not be more pleased that Caste by Isabel Wilkerson has won for Best History & Biography as I cannot stop recommending this book to people. Information overload? Sure. Upsetting? Absolutely. But it is worth it.
And as if I did not already have more than enough reason to be pleased about this year's results, I see that Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo, possibly my favorite YA book of the year, has won for Best Young Adult Fiction. This is always a tough category, and I think it has been a few years since a favorite of mine has won. I would have loved if another DSN had won for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, but it was not meant to be as the winner is The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black, narrowly defeating The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins.
So there they are! Four of the winners in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards were featured on this blog at one point throughout the year. As always, this now means the process of finding a potential 2021 winner has begun, and I am so excited.
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