3.5 million readers choose the top 20 books in 2016

in books •  7 years ago 

More than 3.5 million readers participated in the Goodreads Choice Awards for the eighth year in a row, eventually ending 20 books on the 2016 Best Book List in 20 different categories.

  • 1 BEST FANTASY 

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the best fiction book with 128,000 readers, the eighth author in the series, who became the first Harry Potter story on the stage instead of the movie screen. The story revolves around hero Harry Potter, Who grew up at the age of 37, worked for the Ministry of Magic, was married to Ginie and had three children, and his youngest son, Albus, struggled to bear the burden of his family's legacy. The father and son learned the bitter reality that darkness sometimes comes from Unexpected places.

  • 2 BEST FICTION  

With a vote of 30,000 readers, Truly Madly Guilty was the best novel in 2016, written by Australian writer Liani Moriarty, one of the best-selling writers

The novel about six mature people, three children and a dog celebrating the holiday, the couple Sam and Clementin have a wonderful life and busy each of them doing the job he dreamed of, they have two beautiful girls, and have a friend Clementine claiming Arica understand some of the look, despite the complexity of their relationship, Sam and Kalamantin and their neighbors Tiffany and Vid, for a barbecue, and some of them two months, the question still insists on the couple Sam and Kalamnin "What if we do not go? "He said.

  • 3 Best Mystery & Thriller 

This year Stephen King's "The End of the Period" won a vote of more than 42,000 readers as the best suspense novel, a sequel to his best-selling trio, which began with "Mister Mercedes", the Idger novelist and the second novel "Who Finds Something to Keep" In the latter part, Mercedes fights his enemies to commit suicide. If Detective Bill Hodges and Holly Jeppeni fail to find a way to stop him, they will become victims, an extremely thrilling story of human vulnerability, no one can do better than King.

  • 4 Best Historical Fiction 

With 24,000 readers, "The Underground Railroad" by American writer Colin Whitehead has been crowned the best historical novel.

The story tells of the "Cora" slave in a cotton farm in Georgia, a hell of a life for all the slaves, especially Kora, they are pariahs even of African slaves, and think of escaping from this hell, and then shows Caesar who joined the work on the farm recently and told her about the underground rail, But they do not follow their plans. They have been chased in their quest for freedom.

  • 5 BEST ROMANCE 

"It's Sometimes Who Loves You More than Hurts You" This sentence sums up the novel "Ends with Us" by author Colin Hoover, chosen by more than 59,000 readers as the best romantic novel, and this is the second year in a row that readers choose Hoover.

Things were never easy for Lee Lee, but that did not stop her from working hard to achieve the life she wanted. She moved from her small town to Boston and started her own project. When she fell in love with her real-life neurosurgeon, , So that "Atlas" return to her first love, which was prepared by the protector, so her relationship with Reli threatened.

  • 6 BEST SCIENCE FICTION 

With 45,000 readers, Morning Star became the best science fiction novel by Perth, and for the second year in a row that Brown has chosen Brown's Best Science Fiction, one of the best-selling books.

"Morning Star" is the sequel to the trio of "The Red Sword," which readers learned the second part of "The Golden Son" as the best science fiction book last year, where the rebellious Daru fights to lead his oppressed people and liberate them from masters, And the hero tries to shake the community from the inside, is the story of revenge and life or death.

  • 7 Best Horror 

"The Man of Fire" by the best-selling author Joe Hull, was chosen by more than 23,000 readers as the most terrifying novel, a chilling novel about a global pandemic caused by a major fire that threatens to transform civilization into a pile of ashes.

  • 8 Best Humor 

41,000 readers of the book "The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo" by Amy Schwimmer, a writer and comedian, talks in the book about her past and years of adolescence, her family and relationships, sharing the experiences she has created, a woman who has the courage to endure The burden of the spirit and defends the firmness of what you believe in, all in a cynical frame makes us laugh at her stories.

  • 9 Best NonFiction 

"Hamilton: The Revolution" won a vote of nearly 53,000 readers, and the Pulitzer Prize winner in 2016, written by Lynn Maniol Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, tells the story of the transformation of a Broadway musical into a phenomenon.

  • 10 BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

A poll of 26,000 readers, "When Breath Becomes Air" was selected by Paul Caliente as the best autobiography.

At the age of 36, Paul Caliente, a neurosurgeon who has discovered lung cancer, turned from a life-saving doctor to a struggling patient for life, trying to answer questions, what makes life worth living. The face of death? What do you do when your life breaks down disastrously? What does it mean to become a father at a time when your life is waning? .

Clinty died as he composed his biography, but his words remained to guide us all to face the reality that we are all Fanon.

  • 11 BEST HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY 

"Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man" by William Chattner and David Fisher, received more than 16,000 readers

In this book, actor Schattner records his half-century friendship with actor Leonard Nemway, their first encounter at a photography site, the science fiction series in which they participated and changed their careers, as well as six films, for example. Together, they participated in work and life and experimented with moments of ups and downs, During the book we learn about this extraordinary friendship.

  • 12 BEST POETRY 

Written by Amanda Lovellis, she has collected 22,500 votes from readers, and experiences through life, love, feelings of loss, happiness, recovery, empowerment and inspiration.

  • 13 BEST DEBUT GOODREADS AUTHOR 

More than 24,000 readers chose Canadian author Alwyn Hamilton as the best writer in 2016 for her book "Rebel of the Sands." The novel reveals what happens when a delayed dream erupts with rebellion, passion, and girl hell that finally embraces its power.

  • 14 BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION 

The novel is inspired by the greatest tragedy in maritime history. In the winter of 1945, the novel tells about four teenagers and four secrets, each born in A different country, but all are chased by tragedy, lies and war. Their roads intersect when the rebels flee to the coast as the Soviet troops advance. Everyone is competing for places on the Wilhelm Gasthof, which promises them safety and freedom, but not all times are met.

  • 15 BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

"Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? "Written by France de Waal, who received a vote of more than 12,000 readers, the biologist known for his remarkable effort in this book to introduce us in an innovative way to the intelligence of animals revealing amazing facts.

  • 16  BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS & COMICS 

"Adulthood Is a Myth" by Sarah Anderson, which has received a vote of about 33,000 readers, this comics document all our beautiful holidays that are wasted on the Internet, the dream all day long to go home and dress up and think about when you will be, Test the horror and strangeness of the lives of young people.

  •  17 BEST YOUNG ADULT FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION 

"A Court of Mist and Fury" written by Sara G Mas, with a vote of nearly 58,000 readers, Fiori survives but can not forget the horrendous acts she committed to save the Tamlin people. At the same time a great evil is simulated, it must rise again and deal with it. Its wounded spirit and harnessing its strength to shape its future and the future of a shattered world.

  • 18 BEST MIDDLE GRADE & CHILDREN’S 

"The Hidden Oracle" by Rick Rorden, a voice of more than 46 thousand readers, "How to punish Khaled? "This was what the god Zeus did with his son Apollo, whom he had denied from Olympus, on earth, to become a normal teenager in New York, without his divine powers on Apollo after all of them were living in modern life and trying to escape in order to find a way to return, He has to face a lot of enemies from the gods, monsters and even the infidels, and he has not found a way to reach Camp Half-Blood.

  • 19 BEST PICTURE BOOKS 

As for the best picture book for 2016, he chose more than 16,000 readers, "The Thank You Book" by Mo Williams as the best book, the book about two friends an elephant and a pig, the pig wants to thank everyone but his friend Gerald the elephant is afraid to forget someone important.

  • 20 BEST COOKBOOKS 

"Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat" by Chrissy Teigen, which won a vote of nearly 24,000 readers.

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Wow.Sara J Mass won. She is a really good writer

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