The Goodreads Choice Winners, and More

Publishers Lunch

In the latest "Best of 2013" lists, Goodreads.com announced the winners of their Goodread Choice Awards, based on close to 2 million online "votes." The biggest adult vote-getters were Neil Gaiman (with roughly 43,500) and Malala Yousafzai (with almost 33,000 votes). 
Both were outpaced by YA winner Veronica Roth (over 36,000) and middle grade winner Rick Riordan (the highest overall, with almost 43,000). 

Among the 20 winners:

Fiction: And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
Mystery & Thriller: Inferno, Dan Brown
Historical Fiction: Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Fantasy: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
Science Fiction: MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood
Horror: Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
Memoir & Autobiography: I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai
History & Biography: Jim Henson: The Biography, Brian Jay Jones
Nonfiction: The Autistic Brain, Temple Grandin
Humor: Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh
YA Fiction: Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
YA Fantasy/Sci-fi: Allegiant, Veronica Roth
Middle Grade: House of Hades, Rick Riordan

Though Stephen King took the No. 1 spot for horror, his son Joe Hill was right behind him at No. 2 for NOS4A2. Rainbow Rowell took both first and second place in the YA competition, with Fangirl about 5,000 votes behind Eleanor & Park.

Among other lists, Good Housekeeping posted their top 20 reads of 2013. In the UK, bookseller Waterstones named John Williams' STONER as their "book of the year." Managing director James Daunt said, "It is incredible that Stoner had effectively disappeared and wonderful that a wave of recommendation and word of mouth has seen this exhilarating novel sweep all before it in 2013."