Product Code Database
Winners are determined by crowdvoting on books that Goodreads has nominated or books of their choosing, released in the given year. Most books that Goodreads nominates are from verified Goodreads authors. The final voting round collects the top 10 books from 20 different categories.
| !Chick Lit | |
| !Picture Book | Blueberry Girl |
| !Young Adult Series | Catching Fire |
| !Cover Art | Torment | |
| !Paranormal Fantasy | Dead in the Family | |
| !Picture Book | It's a Book | |
| !Food & Cooking | My Father's Daughter | |
| !Goodreads Author | City of Fallen Angels | |
| !Paranormal Fantasy | Shadowfever | |
| !Picture Book | When I Grow Up | |
| !Travel & Outdoors | ||
| !Food & Cooking | ||
| !Goodreads Author | Insurgent | |
| !Picture Book | Olivia and the Fairy Princesses | |
| !Food & Cooking | Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist | |
| !Paranormal Fantasy | Cold Days | |
| !Picture Book and Oliver Jeffers | ||
| !Food & Cooking | Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook | |
| !Picture Book | ||
| ! rowspan="20"2015 !Children's & Middle Grade | ||
| !Picture Book and Oliver Jeffers | ||
| !Science & Technology | Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish | |
| ! rowspan="20"2016 !Children's & Middle Grade | ||
| !Picture Book | ||
| !Science & Technology | Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? | |
| ! rowspan="20"2017 !Children's & Middle Grade | ||
| !Picture Book | We're All Wonders | |
| !Science & Technology | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | |
| ! rowspan="21"2018 !Children's & Middle Grade | ||
| !Best of the Best | ||
| !Food & Cooking and Adeena Sussman | Cravings: Hungry for More | |
| !Picture Book | I Am Enough | |
| !Science & Technology | ||
| !Food & Cooking | Antoni in the Kitchen | |
| !Picture Book and Luke Flowers | ||
| !Science & Technology | Will My Cats Eat My Eyeballs? |
| !Picture Book and Ashley Lukashevsky | Antiracist Baby |
| !Science & Technology and Jonnie Hughes | |
(Listed by number of wins, then alphabetically by surname)
| 11 | Rick Riordan | Best Children's & Middle Grade (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) |
| 10 | Stephen King | Best Science Fiction (2011), Best Fantasy (2012), Best Horror (2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023), Best Mystery & Thriller (2014, 2016, 2018) |
| 7 | Sarah J. Maas | Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), Best Fantasy (2020, 2021, 2022) |
| 5 | Veronica Roth | Best Book (2011), Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2011, 2012, 2013), Best Goodreads Author (2012) |
| 4 | Suzanne Collins | Best Book (2009, 2010), Best Young Adult Series (2009), Best Young Adult Fantasy (2011) |
| Neil Gaiman | Best Fantasy (2013, 2015), Best Graphic Novel (2009), Best Picture Book (2009) | |
| 3 | Sarah Andersen | Best Graphic Novel and Comics (2016, 2017, 2018) |
| Margaret Atwood | Best Science Fiction (2013), Best Fiction (2019), Best Poetry (2020) | |
| Pierce Brown | Best Goodreads Debut Author (2014), Best Science Fiction (2015, 2016) | |
| Ree Drummond | Best Food & Cooking (2012, 2015, 2017) | |
| Colleen Hoover | Best Romance (2015, 2016, 2017) | |
| Rainbow Rowell | Best Fiction (2014), Best Young Adult Fiction (2013), Best Graphic Novels & Comics (2019) | |
| J. K. Rowling | Best Fiction (2012), Best Fantasy (2016, 2017) | |
| Angie Thomas | Best Goodreads Debut Author (2017), Best Young Adult Fiction (2017), Best of the Best (2018) | |
| J. R. Ward | Best Romance (2010, 2011, 2013) | |
| Andy Weir | Best Science Fiction (2014, 2017, 2021) | |
| Taylor Jenkins Reid | Best Historical Fiction (2019, 2021, 2022) | |
| Emily Henry | Best Romance (2021, 2022, 2023) | |
| Leigh Bardugo | Best Fantasy (2019, 2023), Best Young Adult Fantasy (2021) | |
| 2 | Holly Black | Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2019, 2020) |
| Cassandra Clare | Best Goodreads Author (2011), Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2014) | |
| Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers | Best Picture Book (2013, 2015) | |
| Diana Gabaldon | Best Romance (2009, 2014) | |
| Ina Garten | Best Food & Cooking (2014, 2020) | |
| John Green | Best Young Adult Fiction (2012), Best Nonfiction (2021) | |
| Kristin Hannah | Best Historical Fiction (2015, 2018) | |
| Deborah Harkness | Best Paranormal Fantasy (2012), Best Fantasy (2014) | |
| Charlaine Harris | Best Fantasy (2009), Best Paranormal Fantasy (2010) | |
| Paula Hawkins | Best Mystery & Thriller (2015, 2017) | |
| Jeff Kinney | Best Children's & Middle Grade (2009, 2010) | |
| Stieg Larsson | Best Mystery & Thriller (2009, 2010) | |
| Jenny Lawson | Best Humor (2012, 2021) | |
| Amanda Lovelace | Best Poetry (2016, 2018) | |
| Casey McQuiston | Best Romance (2019), Best Debut Novel (2019) | |
| Rebecca Skloot | Best Nonfiction (2010), Best Debut Author (2010) | |
| Chrissy Teigen & Adeena Sussman | Best Food & Cooking (2016, 2018) | |
| Mo Willems | Best Picture Book (2014, 2016) | |
| Amanda Gorman | Best Poetry (2021, 2022) | |
| V. E. Schwab | Best Science Fiction (2018), Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2022) | |
| Alice Oseman | Best Graphic Novels & Comics (2020, 2022) | |
| Emilia Hart | Best Historical Fiction (2023), Best Debut Novel (2023) |
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