Last week, Goodreads announced the winners of the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards. This year, there were more than 5.7 million votes cast for nominated books across 17 categories. The winners were all chosen based on member votes instead of critics or a stuffy exclusive group. Goodreads was kind enough to share the winners for Best Fantasy Novels and Best Science Fiction Novels you’ll find below. What books did you enjoy reading this year?
Best Fantasy
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House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2)
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By Sarah J. Maas
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Fantasy queen Sarah J. Maas takes home her seventh Goodreads Choice Award and third in a row in the category with House of Sky and Breath, the latest in her popular Crescent City series. Angels! demons! Adventure! Romance! Suspense! Maas, as a narrator, shows her skills as an elite world builder. Bonus trivia: Maas started writing her first novel at the age of 16.
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Runner-up: RF Kuang’s Babel
Best Science Fiction
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Sea of Tranquility
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By Emily St. John Mandel
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In another heartening triumph for literary science fiction, Emily St. John Mandel takes home her first award for the year’s best book about time travel, lunar colonization, and Vancouver Island circa 1912. Well, l ‘only book. But still. With stories like this one and Station Eleven, Mandel is charting new territory in 21st century speculative fiction.
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Runner Up: Doctor Moreau’s Daughter by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
by Tommy Williams
Source: Geek Tyrant
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