PublishersLunch
GoodReads announced the winners of their
contest asking readers to vote for their favorite
titles of the year across 20 categories. If you just look at the topline
results, JK Rowling's THE CASUAL VACANCY actually came out on top in the
fiction category, well ahead of runner up, Emily Giffin's WHERE WE BELONG.
But we pulled up the actual votes within
each of those 20 categories instead of just copying over the winners list. The
single-largest vote recipient was YA winner John Green's THE FAULT IN OUR
STARS, with almost 37,500 votes, more than three times Rowling's total.
Mystery/thriller winner Gillian Flynn's GONE GIRL was in second place; Veronica
Roth's YA book INSURGENT was their third overall vote-getter, followed by EL
James' FIFTY SHADES FREED, Deborah Harkness's SHADOW OF THE NIGHT and then
Rowling's novel.
In other lists, the Christian Science Monitor
picked 10
favorite novels and 15
works of nonfiction. Critics for the St.
Louis Post Dispatch selected 50
recommend books of the year.
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