О премии

Выбор сайта Goodreads - крупнейшая литературная премия, победителей которой ежегодно выбирают сами читатели со всего мира.

Впервые премия была опробована на портале Goodreads в 2009 году. С тех пор каждый пользователь сайта имеет возможность отдать свой голос за полюбившуюся книгу, выпущенную в текущем году.

Голосование происходит в ноябре, а победители объявляются в декабре. Goodreads анализирует статистику по миллионам книг, добавленных и оцененных читателями, выбирает 20 самых достойных претендентов в каждой из 20, существующих на сегодняшний день, номинаций премии. Затем проводится второй тур голосования, в ходе которого книголюбы выбирают победителя. Книга, набравшая максимальное количество голосов признается лауреатом премии.
Таким образом, награда Goodreads Choice - это действительно честь, которая исходит прямо от читателей.

Goodreads — интернет-портал так называемой «социальной каталогизации». Он был создан инженером-программистом и предпринимателем Отисом Чендлером и Элизабет Чендлер в конце 2006 года. Данный сайт предоставляет возможность свободного доступа к обширной базе данных книг, аннотаций, различных обзоров. На протяжении года с момента создания сайта были добавлены более десяти миллионов книг и сайт посетили более 650 000 человек. Сейчас на сайте ежемесячно бывает до 20 миллионов посетителей, а в голосовании за лучшую книгу года участвует около трех миллионов человек.
В 2013 году, портал был приобретён компанией Amazon.

Номинации

Лучшая проза
Best Fiction
Лучшая тайна и триллер
Best Mystery & Thriller
Лучшая историческая проза
Best Historical Fiction

Номинация появилась в 2010 году.

Лучшая фантастика
Best Fantasy
Лучшая из лучших
Best of the Best

В честь празднования десятой годовщины премии в 2018 году добавлена эта специальная номинация для главного фаворита из списка всех 170 победителей за прошедшие (2009 - 2018) годы.

Лучшая романтика
Best Romance
Лучший романтический роман
Best Romantasy

Номинация учреждена в 2023 году.

Лучшая научная фантастика
Best Science Fiction
Лучшие ужасы
Best Horror

Номинация появилась в 2011 году.

Лучший юмор
Best Humor

Номинация открыта с 2010 года.

Лучшая документальная книга
Best Non-fiction
Лучшие мемуары и автобиография
Best Memoir & Autobiography

Номинация открыта в 2010 году.

Лучшая история и биография
Best History & Biography

Номинация учреждена в 2010 году.

Лучшая наука и техника
Best Science & Technology

Номинация учреждена в 2015 году.

Лучшая книга о еде и кулинарии
Best Food & Cooking

Номинация учреждена в 2011 году.

Лучший графический роман и комиксы
Best Graphic Novel& Comics

До 2011 года номинация была только для графических романов, с 2011 года - включены комиксы.

Лучшая поэзия
Best Poetry

Номинация открыта в 2010 году.

Лучший дебют
Best Debut Goodreads Author

Номинация учреждена в 2010 году.

Лучшая проза для молодежи
Best Young Adult Fiction
Лучшая молодежная фэнтези и научная фантастика
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

Номинация открыта в 2010 году.

Лучшая книга для детей и подростков
Best Middle Grade & Children's

Первоначально номинация была только для детских книг. С 2010 года в нее стали включать книги для подростков.

Лучшая иллюстрированная книга
Best Picture Book
Книга-фаворит года
Favorite Book

В данной номинации премия вручалась трижды - в 2009, 2010 и 2011 годах.

Лучшая молодежная серия
Best Young Adult Series

Премия в данной номинации вручена только один раз - в 2009 году.

Лучшее паранормальное фэнтези
Best Paranormal Fantasy

Премия в этой номинации вручалась в 2010 - 2013 годах.

Лучшая книга о путешествиях и отдыхе
Best Travel & Outdoors

Премия в этой номинации вручалась только один раз - в 2011 году.

Лучший автор сайта Goodreads
Best Goodreads Author

Премия в этой номинации вручена трижды - 2011, 2012, 2013 годах.

Лучшая обложка
Best Cover Art

Премия в этой номинации вручалась однажды - в 2010 году.

Лучший бизнес
Best Business

Премия в этой номинации вручалась только один раз - в 2014 году.

Лучшая современная фантастика
Best Contemporary Fiction

Премия вручена только в 2009 году.

Лучшая проза
Ребекка Куанг 4.2

Собрано 200 722 голосов.

В ночь смерти Афины Лю, автора нескольких нашумевших бестселлеров, ее коллега Джун Хэйворд крадет из дома погибшей черновик романа и, доработав, выдает за свой. Деньги, почести, премии — восторг от собственного вознесения на писательский Олимп кружит голову, ведь все, о чем грезила Джун, теперь сбывается на глазах, и никто никогда не узнает… Но на одной из встреч с читателями Джун видит то, чего не может быть. Это невозможно. Это противоречит здравому смыслу. Афина Лю жива? Или это ее мстительный призрак?
Лучшая тайна и триллер
Фрида Макфадден 4.0

Собрано 86 468 голосов.

“Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can’t risk losing this job—not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe…

It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want.

It’s almost perfect. But I still haven’t met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I’m sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I’m doing laundry. And one day I can’t help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything…

That’s when I make a promise. After all, I’ve done this before. I can protect Mrs Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe.

Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It’s simply a question of how far I’m willing to go…
Лучшая историческая проза
Emilia Hart 4.3

Собрано 62 211 голосов.

I am a Weyward, and wild inside.

2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.

1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. As a girl, Altha’s mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence for witchcraft is set out against Altha, she knows it will take all of her powers to maintain her freedom.

1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives––and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom.

Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.
Лучшая фантастика
Ли Бардуго 4.1

Собрано 75 800 голосов.

Alex Stern returns in another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite…

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell—even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren’t just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if Alex is going to survive, she'll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university's very walls.
Лучшая романтика
Emily Henry 3.8

Собрано 157 687 голосов.

A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.

They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.

Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best?
Лучший романтический роман
Ребекка Яррос 4.5

Собрано 397 565 голосов.

Вступить в квадрант всадников — мечта многих, желающих выбиться в элиту. Но не Вайолет Сорренгейл, всю жизнь стремившуюся стать писцом. Со слабым здоровьем, но сильной волей, ей нужно выжить в кровавом отборе и стать частью квадранта всадников.
Проблема лишь в том, что драконы никогда не выбирают слабаков.

Они их сжигают.

Добро пожаловать в академию Басгиат! Лучшее место для тех, кто готов умереть. За мечту.
Лучшая научная фантастика
Ти Джей Клун 4.3

Собрано 57 535 голосов.

New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.

In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe.

The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio-a past spent hunting humans.

When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.

Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?

Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door
Лучшие ужасы
Stephen King 4.2

Собрано 77 993 голосов.

Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.” — BILL HODGES

Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.

Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.

Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.

“I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr. Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. Holly is all her.” — STEPHEN KING
Лучший юмор
Генри Уинклер 0.0

Собрано 36 770 голосов.

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole.

Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as “The Fonz” in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it’s simply not the case, he’s really just grateful to be here), Henry shares in this achingly vulnerable memoir the disheartening truth of his childhood, the difficulties of a life with severe dyslexia, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own, and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you.

Since the glorious era of Happy Days fame, Henry has endeared himself to a new generation with roles in such adored shows as Arrested Development, Parks and Recreation, and Barry, where he’s been revealed as an actor with immense depth and pathos, a departure from the period of his life when he was so distinctly typecast as The Fonz, he could hardly find work.

Filled with profound heart, charm, and self-deprecating humor, Being Henry is a memoir about so much more than a life in Hollywood and the curse of stardom. It is a meaningful testament to the power of sharing truth and kindness and of finding fulfillment within yourself.
Лучшие мемуары и автобиография
Britney Spears 4.2

132 867 голосов

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.

Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.
Лучшая история и биография
Дэвид Гранн 4.4

40132 голосов

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.
Лучший дебют
Emilia Hart 4.3

45 420 голосов

I am a Weyward, and wild inside.

2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.

1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. As a girl, Altha’s mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence for witchcraft is set out against Altha, she knows it will take all of her powers to maintain her freedom.

1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives––and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom.

Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.
Лучшая проза для молодежи
Али Хейзелвуд 4.4

68 736 голосов

Мэллори Гринлиф бросила шахматы, когда они разрушили ее семью. Но четыре года спустя она все же соглашается принять участие в благотворительном турнире и случайно обыгрывает Нолана Сойера — действующего чемпиона и настоящего «бэд боя» в мире шахмат.

Проигрыш Нолана новичку шокирует всех, а громкая победа открывает Мэллори двери к денежному призу, который так ей необходим. Мэллори сомневается, стоит ли идти на сделку с совестью, но Сойер серьезно намерен отыграться и не желает выпускать загадочную соперницу из поля зрения. Вступая в большую игру, Мэллори изо всех сил старается оградить свою семью от того, что когда-то ее разрушило, и заново не влюбиться в шахматы. Однако вскоре понимает, что не может перестать думать о Сойере, ведь он не только умен, но и чертовски привлекателен…
Лучшая молодежная фэнтези и науч...
Ребекка Росс 4.4

117 671 голосов

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, their fate depends on their facing the depths of hell … together.

After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again …

All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced
to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris’s best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.

But when Iris’s letters to her brother fall into the wrong hands – that of the handsome but cold Roman Kitt, her rival at the paper – an unlikely magical connection forms.

Expelled into the middle of a mystical war, magical typewriters in tow, can their bond withstand the fight for the fate of mankind and, most importantly, love?

An epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.

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