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More Than 70 of Our Books are Finalists for 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards

Finalists for the 2018  Goodreads Choice Awards have been announced and feature 72 titles published by Penguin Random House imprints as well as Penguin Random House Publisher Services (PRHPS) client publishers, across such categories as Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Horror, Humor, Nonfiction, Memoir & Autobiography, History & Biography, Science & Technology, Food & Cookbooks, Graphic Novels & Comics, Poetry,  Debut Author, Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, Middle Grade & Children’s Books and Picture Books.  This year, there is a new category, Best of the Best, where you can choose your favorite Goodreads Choice Award winner of the past ten years. Votes for the Finalists for the Goodreads Best Books of the Year can be cast through November 26.

Here are our Goodreads Choice Awards 2018 Finalists:  

Fiction

• ALL WE EVER WANTED by Emily Giffin (Ballantine Books)
• STILL ME by Jojo Moyes (Penguin Books)
• KILLING COMMENDATORE by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
• THERE THERE by Tommy Orange (Knopf)
• AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING by Hank Green (Dutton)

Mystery & Thriller

• THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING by Bill Clinton and James Patterson (Little, Brown & Company and Knopf)
• THE WITCH ELM by Tana French  (Viking)

Historical Fiction

• THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• NEXT YEAR IN HAVANA by Chanel Cleeton (Berkley)
• WARLIGHT by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf)
• WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Fantasy

• BURN BRIGHT by Patricia Briggs (Ace)
• GREY SISTER by Mark Lawrence (Ace)
• HIGH VOLTAGE by Karen Marie Moning (Dell)
• SPINNING SILVER by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

Romance

• THE WEDDING DATE by Jasmine Guillory (Berkley)
• THE KISS QUOTIENT by Helen Hoang (Berkley)
• DARKER by E L James (Vintage)
• THE THIEF by J.R. Ward (Ballantine Books)

Science Fiction

• IRON GOLD by Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
• VOX by Christina Dalcher (Berkley)
• ONLY HUMAN by Sylvain Neuvel (Del Rey)

Horror

• WE SOLD OUR SOULS by Grady Hendrix (Quirk Books, a PRHPS client publisher)
• THE HUNGER by Alma Katsu (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• DRACUL by Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Humor

• THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman (Dutton)
• EVERYTHING’S TRASH, BUT IT’S OKAY by Phoebe Robinson (Plume)
• HOPE NEVER DIES by Andrew Shaffer (Quirk Books, a PRHPS client publisher)

Nonfiction

• 21 LESSONS FOR THE 21^ST CENTURY by Yuval Noah Harari (Spiegel & Grau)
• 12 RULES FOR LIFE: An Antidote To Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson (Random House Canada, distributed in the U.S. by PRHPS)

Memoir & Autobiography

• EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler (Random House)
• I AM, I AM, I AM: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf)
• BECOMING by Michelle Obama (Crown)
• THE GIRL WHO SMILED BEADS: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil (Crown)
• EDUCATED: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Random House)

History & Biography

• THE MONK OF MOKHA by Dave Eggers (Knopf)
• JEFFERSON’S DAUGHTERS: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison (Ballantine Books)
• ROCKET MEN: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson (Random House)
• IN THE HURRICANE’S EYE: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)
• THE WOMAN’S HOUR: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss (Viking)

Science & Technology

• BROAD BAND: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans (Portfolio)
• BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS by Stephen Hawking (Bantam)
• THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth BY Michio Kaku (Doubleday)
• WHEN: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead Books)
• HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press)
• SPYING ON WHALES: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson (Viking)
• THE ORDER OF TIME by Carlo Rovelli (Riverhead Books)
• SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer (Dutton)

Food & Cookbooks

• GIADA’S ITALY: My Recipes for La Dolce Vita by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter)
• TASTY LATEST AND GREATEST: Everything You Want to Cook Right Now by Tasty (Clarkson Potter)
• CRAVINGS: Hungry for More by Chrissy Teigen and Adeena Sussman (Clarkson Potter)

Graphic Novels & Comics

• AM I THERE YET? The Loop-De-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood by Mari Andrew (Clarkson Potter)

Poetry

• IF THEY COME FOR US by Fatimah Asghar (One World)
• TAKE ME WITH YOU by Andrea Gibson (Plume)
• USELESS MAGIC: Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch (Crown Archetype)

Debut Author

• THE KISS QUOTIENT by Helen Hoang (Berkley)
• THERE THERE by Tommy Orange (Knopf)
• SOMETHING IN THE WATER by Catherine Steadman (Ballantine Books)
• THE CHALK MAN by C.J. Tudor (Crown)

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

• OBSIDIO by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• WILDCARD by Marie Lu (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• REAPER AT THE GATES by Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill)

Middle Grade & Children’s

• THE PENDERWICKS AT LAST by Jeanne Birdsall (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• THE MISCALCULATIONS OF LIGHTENING GIRL by Stacy McAnulty (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• AMAL UNBOUND by Aisha Saeed (Nancy Paulsen Books)

Picture Books

• THE RABBIT LISTENED by Cori Doerrfeld (Dial Books for Young Readers)
• JULÍAN IS A MERMAID by Jessica Love (Candlewick Press, a PRHPS client publisher)
• LOVE by Matt de la Peña, Loren Long (Illustrations) (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)

Best of the Best

• GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn (Broadway Books)
• THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green (Penguin Young Readers)
• THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett (Berkley)
• THE MARTIAN by Andy Weir (Broadway Books)

View the complete list of Goodreads Choice Awards 2018 Finalists here.