Goodreads Choice Awards 2026

Voting for 2026 isn't over yet. In recent years, winners were announced in early December.

Who won in 2025

Fiction

My Friends

By: Fredrik Backman

A teenage girl is handed a famous painting and travels across the country to meet the childhood friends it shows.

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Fantasy

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

By: V.E. Schwab

Three women become vampires in different eras, from 16th-century Spain to present-day Boston.

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Romance

Great Big Beautiful Life

By: Emily Henry

Two rival writers compete for the chance to tell a reclusive heiress's life story.

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Mystery & Thriller

Not Quite Dead Yet

By: Holly Jackson

Attacked on Halloween night, Jet Mason has one week to live and spends it hunting down who did it.

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Science Fiction

The Compound

By: Aisling Rawle

Lily joins a reality show in a sealed desert house where tasks earn food and luxuries and someone leaves every week.

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Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

Sunrise on the Reaping

By: Suzanne Collins

Hunger Games prequel: a young Haymitch Abernathy is picked for the 50th Games, a special Quarter Quell edition.

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Other 2026 awards

Oscars 2026Best PictureOne Battle After AnotherGolden Globes 2026Best Motion Picture – DramaHamnetCannes 2026Palme d'OrFjordVenice 2026Golden LionWoman UnknownBerlinale 2026Golden BearYellow LettersNobel in Literature 2026Nobel Prize in LiteratureAutobiography of RedPulitzer 2026FictionAngel DownBooker 2026Announced November 9, 20262025 winner: FleshInternational Booker 2026International Booker PrizeTaiwan Travelogue★Hugo 2026Best NovelThe Everlasting★Jabuti 2026Announced October 27, 20262025 winner: O ouvidor do Brasil: 99 vezes Tom Jobim

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