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December 4, 2025By Erin Somers

Best of: Goodread Choice Winners, and More

December 4, 2025By Erin Somers

The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Slate named their Best Books of the Year.

Goodreads announced the winners of the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards. The winners in order of votes received:

YA Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins (300,427 votes)
Romantasy: Onyx Storm, by Rebecca Yarros (298,565 votes)
Historical Fiction: Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (254,774 votes)
Fiction: My Friends, by Fredrik Backman (167,509 votes)
Debut Novel: Alchemised, by SenLinYu (165,184 votes)
Romance: Great Big Beautiful Life, by Emily Henry (117,054 votes)
Nonfiction: Everything Is Tuberculosis, by John Green (114,142 votes)
Audiobook: Onyx Storm, by Rebecca Yarros (107,386 votes)
Fantasy: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by V.E. Schwab (102,408 votes)
Mystery & Thriller: Not Quite Dead Yet, by Holly Jackson (77,149 votes)
Horror: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, by Grady Hendrix (59,603 votes)
Memoir: The House of My Mother, by Shari Franke (57,544 votes)
YA Fiction: Fake Skating, by Lynn Painter (46,319 votes)
History & Biography: How to Kill a Witch, by Claire Mitchell, Zoe Venditozzi (45,858 votes)
Sci-Fi: The Compound, by Aisling Rawle (45,287 votes)

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