Goodreads Choice Awards for 2012

After more than a million votes were cast, Goodreads has announced the winners of its Goodreads Choice Awards for 2012, the only major book awards decided by readers. Here are the winners in each category:

• Fiction: The Casual Vacancy, by J.K. Rowling
• Mystery/Thriller: Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
• Historical Fiction: The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman
• Fantasy: The Wind Through the Keyhole, by Stephen King
• Paranormal Fantasy: Shadow of Night, by Deborah Harkness
• Science Fiction: The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
• Romance: Fifty Shades Freed, by E.L. James
• Horror: The Twelve, by Justin Cronin
• Memoir/Autobiography: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed
• History/Biography: Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch, by Sally Bedell Smith
• Nonfiction: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
• Food/Cookbooks: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier, by Ree Drummond
• Humor: Let's Pretend this Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, by Jenny Lawson
• Graphic Novel//Comics: The Walking Dead, Vol 16, A Larger World, by Robert Kirkman, illustrated by Charlie Adlard
• Poetry: A Thousand Mornings, by Mary Oliver
• Young Adult: The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
• YA Fantasy/SciFi: Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
• Middle Grade: The Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordan
• Picture Book: Olivia and the Fairy Princesses, by Ian Falconer

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