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Young adult books are literally the future. By that, I mean two things. First, they explore some of the most important themes we'll face in our lives: love, loss, mental health, activism and sexuality to name a few. Second, they sometimes get turned into movies, and if you read the book first, you'll be able to be THAT person who is like, "you know, the movie was good, but there's this scene that was just done SO MUCH BETTER in the book." So, do your future self a favor, and read these YA books.

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The 11 Best Young Adult Books You'll Be Obsessed With in 2019

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Young adult books are literally the future. By that, I mean two things. First, they explore some of the most important themes we'll face in our lives: love, loss, mental health, activism and sexuality to name a few.

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In case you haven't heard, a climate disaster is looming. The effects of climate change-like rising seas and intensifying weather patterns-are already here. Even though the worst is yet to come, there are still things that we can do to fight for our planet. One thing you can do right now is to educate yourself by reading climate change books.

Climate Change Books About Science

By the year 2050, Earth's population will be closing in on 10 billion people. That's a lot of mouths to feed. Journalist Lisa Palmer's book Hot Hungry Planet digs into the possibilities of famine and food scarcity and the innovations that might save us all from hunger.

What will the future look like? The past may have a clue. Over the ages of our planet's history, there have been five mass extinction events, one of which all but wiped out the dinosaurs. In the Anthropocene period, the next casualty may be us. In The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a closer look at the past to tell us more about our future.

Climate Change Books About Health

We're getting more used seeing images of stranded polar bears and hearing about our dwindling bee population, but most reporting on climate change leaves out what it can do to our own health. Linda Marsa's Fevered delves into the increasing rate of illnesses associated with global warming, like asthma, allergies, and mosquito-borne diseases, just to name a few.

The past few generations have taken advantage of the planet, polluting the oceans, ravaging the land, and filling our skies with smoke. What were we thinking? In The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh argues that we weren't, we have been deliberately blind to the disasters looming in our future-until now.

Climate Change Books About People

One of the scariest things about plastic is that it's kind of immortal. It can churn in the ocean for hundreds of years before it finally breaks down. Humans fell in love with this toxic material in 1950s, and since then, it has managed to work its way into almost everything we touch. Susan Freinkel recounts this love story in Plastic by digging deeper into the ways plastic affects our lives and the life of the planet.

Originally published in 1988, activist Vandana Shiva's seminal work, Staying Alive, explores the relationship between women and our natural world. In many places, the freedom of the women is directly related to a country's outlook. More recent research has shown that women's rights directly impacts sustainability. You could say that Shiva is the mother of that idea.

Climate Change Books About Politics

Research has shown that climate denialists do, in fact, have brains. It's just that they haven't been using them. We have been manipulated, and logic has been twisted to distort the truth. In The Madhouse Effect, climate scientist Michael E. Mann comes together with cartoonist Tom Toles to create a funny, sad portrait of the mad world we're living in.

From the author of The Shock Doctrine, this book delves into the war between capitalism and the planet. In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein argues something that many of us already know: we have to change our destructive habits that are rooted in capitalism. It may be the only way we can save our environment before it's too late.

Climate Change Books About Racism

Not everyone will experience climate change equally. The poor and working class are already disproportionately affected by the problems of climate change. In Dumping in Dixie, Robert D. Bullard, a professor and environmental justice activist, asserts that living in a healthy environment is a right for all Americans, regardless of their race, class, or social standing.

For years, poor and minority communities have found themselves becoming the dumping ground for businesses hoping to get rid of waste on the path of least resistance. Shockingly, entrenched segregation and zoning laws have paved the way to make this possible, making communities of color sick for years-literally.

Further Books about Climate Change

If you're interested in discovering more about climate change and pollution and the effects humanities nasty habits have had on our planet, Book Riot has you covered. But if fiction is more of your jam, check out " What Is Cli-Fi? A Beginner's Guide to Climate Fiction."

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In 2018, a huge number of Americans revealed themselves as racists and bigots. It's unfortunate most of them will never read American Like Me; it might serve as a reminder of what this nation actually stands for.

Beautiful words written by folks from across the arts: authors and comedians, actors and musicians, the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves, American Like Me unfurls the gorgeous tapestry of my America, where the descendant of Russian-Jewish immigrants, who grew up keeping kosher and missing Friday night dances, can be a writer and cosplayer and speak Spanish and Arabic.

And I won't give up on it.

In an kingdom that fears the magic that is her birthright, Zélie Adebola trains in secret. In a kingdom where the royal family has risen to power on the ashes of the last generation of magicians, a prince hides his curse. What happens when they meet is nothing short of enthralling. Think Black Panther meets X-Men, with a dash of Game of Thrones thrown in, and you'll get a glimmer of what's in store for you. Author Tomi Adeyemi has created a rich, vibrant, and thrilling world where nothing is certain and anything is possible. Taking inspiration from African myth and culture, it's a refreshing break from the Euro-centric fantasy norm.

In Circe, Madeline Miller takes a character who makes a brief appearance in the Odyssey and gives her a voice. The daughter of the sun god Helios, Circe is exiled to an island and you watch her life as she grows up knowing that she desires different things than her family, how she handles the loneliness of her exile, her own desires and how she does and does not want to use her powers. Although there are appearances from famous characters of Greek mythology, this story is not just for those who love mythology. Instead it is about the power of looking at a story from another perspective and how women are often incorrectly viewed by the world.

The night before his biggest college game, basketball phenom August West goes to a bar to decompress and meets Iris Dupree, and the attraction is instantaneous and undeniable. A relationship at that time, however, is impossible. The timing isn't right. As August rises to basketball stardom and Iris claws her way out of an unimaginably painful situation; these two realize that a connection like theirs isn't easily broken. Kennedy Ryan weaves a tale that is raw and brutally honest. isn't an easy read and there are times you may want to turn away but you won't, because pure love, power, and resilience seep through every word.

Korede's sister Ayoola is a real beauty, with a long string of boyfriends who have a tendency to wind up dead. As the dutiful older sister, Korede has become accustomed to cleaning up her sister's messes (literally). But when the coworker Korede has a crush on begins to show interest in Ayoola, things get even more complicated.

Dark, sharp, and intriguing, this was a book I could not read fast enough. It was the kind of book I literally couldn't put down, glued to the ebook reader on my phone while I was supposed to be chaperoning a field trip at the time (whoops). Tense and sardonic, this book does not disappoint.

The last time an anthology of contemporary Native poetry was published, there were no cell phones, and only computer scientists knew about the internet. I was still French rolling my jeans. In other words, calling this a much-needed anthology is literally the understatement of the century. Editor Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway) chose work by 21 poets whose first books were published after the year 2000. The poems showcase the wide diversity of styles, perspectives, and languages in which Native poets are writing today. The anthology is a joy to read, from Erdrich's inspiring introduction to the author notes at the end.

Remixes of classics and myths are already an easy way to get my attention, but the premise of Pride is like Grade A, extra-strength, deluxe edition catnip. A Pride and Prejudice remake set in Bushwick with all characters of color and Afro-Latinas as the Bennet (Benitez) sisters that tackles gentrification, classism, and identity politics?! SOLD. The audio version takes the awesome up a notch with narration by Elizabeth Acevedo ( swoon), whose tone and cadence are a perfect match to the swagger and attitude of main character Zuri. It's poetic and soulful, Jane Austen classic with Afro-Latinx heart.

Buff Male Nanny. Enough said, right?

Rafe is the low in angst, fluffy and cute novel you've been looking for your entire life. Let me tell you that you have found it. In this romance story, Dr. Sloan needs a nanny to watch her kids, but she never thought she would find her love match as well. Rafe is our buff nanny who will easily enchant you with his sweetness and care for Sloan and her children.

We don't get a lot of male nanny heroes, or if we do, it's never their choice of career. But in Rafe, this is not the case. Rafe loves doing his job and you see it pretty early on. This book is really fluff on fluff and I absolutely adore it.

Rejoice! Ellen Forney has given us a guide to navigating life with a mood disorder. Using her experience living with bipolar disorder, Forney shares her tips 'n' tricks for handling all aspects of mental health: sleep, human contact, meds, therapy, etc. At the end of each chapter, there are cute merit badges to keep you going! While she mostly refers to bipolar, this advice could be applied to many mental illnesses - and is good for all humans in general. It's all done in her classic, light-hearted style and is just so lovely and wise. This is a wonderful book to keep on your shelf for when things get hard.

I never expected feminist horror to be my jam, but Sawkill Girls proved me wrong. On Sawkill Rock, girls have a history of going missing. Marion's sister is the latest victim. The sheriff's daughter, Zoey, is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and is certain it girl Val has something to do with it. And maybe she does. Either way, all three girls get mixed up in a whole lot of supernatural trouble.

The prose is gorgeous and the creep factor is just right. It's everything you could want in a book: girls being bad, girls working together to fight bad guys, queer girls getting a happy ending, and teenage girls smashing the patriarchy.

No one ever taught me how to talk about race. I can recognize racism. I can recognize microaggressions. I've gotten better at speaking up for myself and others, but So You Want To Talk About Race has been an absolutely indispensable source of knowledge and courage. We will never be perfect in conversations around race, but Oluo offers solid information and permission to fail, as long as we try. Oluo does so much labor via her book that most of us are ill-equipped or unwilling to do. I now require all the self-identified allies in my life to read this book before they talk with me about race and it has definitely leveled-up our conversations.

When was the last time you hugged a book? This book's oversized, floppy shape allows for a little hugging, so don't worry about hurting it when you're done devouring this darling graphic novel. Set in the fin de siècle era, it tells the story of Sebastian, who is old enough to marry, but isn't ready to trust someone with his secret: he never feels more alive than when he's in clothing designed for women. After he sees an absolutely outrageous contraption created by Frances, he hires her to be his dressmaker. As Lady Crystallia, he is all the rage. All thanks to Frances. But his elation might get in the way of an amazing friendship.

This book of essays grew out of a question Johnson was asked: what did she want to see happen to her kidnapper and rapist? She touches on that, and so much more: ideas of justice, empowerment, racism, poverty, environmental destruction, family, anger, survival, love, and what it means to make art, and why. These essays are not always easy to read; they demand the reader face what's on the page, head-on and unflinching, and stay with you long after you've read the last word. These are urgent and necessary essays that also feel timeless. This is one I'll reread over and over and get new ideas and insights each time.

Natural disaster has consumed North America, but the Navajo reservation has survived. Old gods and powers have returned to the Diné people but some things from ancient legend aren't so pleasant. Maggie Hoskie isn't pleasant either, but she who you call to bring down a monster. Raised by a demi-god to be a deadly weapon, Maggie is bad with people but good with a shotgun. When a simple hunt reveals sinister warnings, Maggie is forced to enlist Kai, a young medicine man as beautiful as he is powerful. Roanhorse breathes new life into the monster hunter genre with a post-apocalypse Indigenous world as raw and unapologetic as its heroine.

This book is a moving, enraging, personal account of the Flint water crisis. Hanna-Attisha, the author, is a pediatrician who helped expose the crisis, and the book was a wonderful mix of history, biography, and detective story. The story told in this made me SO MAD at what happened in Flint. This was so riveting that I managed to read a large chunk of it while on a plane with my eight-month-old baby. What the Eyes Don't See appealed to me not only as an urban geographer, but also as a parent and a reader. This book stayed with me long after I finished the last page.

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Our favorite novels and short story collections, presented in no particular order.

Posted on December 7, 2018, at 3:11 p.m. ET

In Severance, Ling Ma creates an alternate recent past, in which most of humankind has been wiped out by Shen Fever. But Shen Fever doesn't just kill - it renders those infected useless, slowly rotting away while trapped in an infinite, mindless loop of their most mundane activities. When Candace Chen finds herself among a small group of survivors, she comes to terms with the fact that her identity is tied up with her productivity, and her conception of freedom is tied to success in a system which has now collapsed. Ma's prose is so efficient, but what is most remarkable is the gentleness with which Ma describes those working within the capital-S System. What does it mean if a person finds true comfort working as a "cog" in a system they disagree with? Is that comfort any less real?

Read Ling Ma's essay "Working at Playboy Meant Hiding My Emotions."
Get it from Amazon for $17.68, Barnes & Noble for $20.80, or through IndieBound or your local library.

Rita Bullwinkel's Belly Up is an astounding collection of short stories - stories about girls who want to be plants, or a living boy who grew up in a family of zombies, or a dying woman who sneaks out for a night swim with an ailing man. These stories exist in worlds just past reality, just slightly uncomfortable, familiar until, suddenly, they aren't. And I didn't just read these stories, each revealing at once the absolute absurdity and magnificence of being alive; I savored them. Bullwinkel's writing and world-building demand space to reflect on it, react to it, and then, if you're like me, shout about it to anyone who will listen.

Read a list of books that inspired Rita here.

There are no rules in Gina Apostol's inventive, genre-bending novel Insurrecto. The book follows two women on a trip through the Philippines - one an American filmmaker researching a 1901 uprising of Filipino revolutionaries against American occupiers, the other a Filipino writer and translator, working on her own version of the same story. But piecing together historical events that have been long omitted or glossed over is tricky, and Apostol's storytelling mirrors the disorientation such a task can create. Insurrecto comes together as a sort of collage - chapters are numbered but out of order, truth and fiction are blended, and the format varies. It's that kind of magnificent book that begs for a second reading.

Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox is many things at once: It's historical fiction - a romp through 18th-century London alongside legendary thief and gaol-breaker Jack Sheppard. It's speculative fiction - Rosenberg takes Sheppard's story and queers it, imagining the notorious criminal as trans in a time when he wouldn't necessarily have (and, we see, would be constantly seeking) the language with which he could describe himself. It's wildly erotic - I'll say that reading this novel prompted my own hourslong research journey into the history of sex toys. And above all this, it is a meta-analysis of all these moving parts. The "confessions" are presented as a found manuscript, which we read along with literary scholar Dr. Voth. Dr. Voth - who, like Sheppard, is trans, and raging against the capitalist machine - peppers the text with personal footnotes, slowly revealing the parallels between both stories. In less capable hands, this conceit could be Too Much, but Rosenberg is as dexterous in storytelling as his protagonist is with locks; everything just fits.

Reading Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's debut short story collection Friday Black is like being shaken awake. These stories exist in a sort of hyperreality, ordinary characters living in the not-so-unbelievable, Black Mirror-esque future of a culture that doesn't hesitate to commodify cruelty or monetize revolution. (See: "Zimmer Land," the story about an amusement park that allows guests to play-act their most violent urges.) Adjei-Brenyah skewers the ways we brush past racism and injustice, making the absurdity of the rhetoric around both impossible to ignore.

In the finale to her groundbreaking trilogy, Rachel Cusk continues her investigation of the symbiotic relationship between identity and creativity, her exploration of that blurred line between existence and performance. Those who've read Outline or Transit will recall our narrator, Faye, who returns in Kudos remarried but surrounded by people long since disillusioned by love. The book veers into abstraction at times - the narrator's meditations and discussions at a European literary festival can seem to exist outside of reality - but it also offers a profound, if bleak, interpretation of human relationships.

When Niru comes out to his best friend Meredith, she downloads Tinder on his phone and convinces him to set up a date. When his father discovers these messages, though, he's swiftly whisked away to their home country, Nigeria, for a spiritual cleansing. When he returns, he discovers things have changed with Meredith - whose side we hear years later, in her own section. Uzodinma Iweala delves into the lasting pain of being separated from society, family, and friends for being different, and the devastation of learning that love alone isn't always enough to span those distances.
Read an excerpt here.
In her debut novel, Mem, Bethany C. Morrow achieves the nearly impossible feat of creating truly new speculative fiction; reading it feels like discovery. The book takes place in 1925, in a Montreal of a different universe. Here, scientists have figured out how to extract memories from people who'd like to forget them, and these memories manifest as physical clones - human-appearing entities whose entire brief existence is a continual loop of the extracted memory, relived in the underground vault where they are kept and observed. But then there's Dolores Extract #1 - or, as she's named herself, Elsie - who is something of a miracle, "born" conscious of her identity as a Mem and able to feel emotion. In her investigation of memory and other Mems, and in pushing the limits of her autonomy outside of the vault, Elsie confronts those big questions which underlie our existence: Who are we without our memories? And what defines our consciousness?

In She Would Be King, debut novelist Wayétu Moore reimagines Liberia's past, building a world so clear and evocative you would swear you were in it. This version is seen from the perspectives of three characters, each blessed with (or burdened by) a supernatural gift: There's seemingly immortal Gbessa, named a witch and exiled from her home; June Dey, the product of a miraculous birth and holding otherworldly strength; and Norman Aragon, the son of a black mother and the white man who enslaved her, who can disappear. Each is drawn to Monrovia - where Africans, both indigenous tribes and those emancipated from enslavement - maintain autonomy. Connecting them all is a mysterious, omniscient spirit, who pushes them toward each other and their destination with gusts of wind. Reading She Would Be King is like being carried by that wind, too, and whisked into a darkly magical world.

Melissa Broder's The Pisces is going to surprise you - I'd put money on it. I could tell you that it's about a woman falling in love with a merman, that it's deeply and at times grotesquely erotic, that it's one of the most astute and unflinching examinations of depression I've ever read, and still you'd just have to read it to understand. Broder is a generous and affecting writer, brilliant in her ability to tie all of these threads together (oh, I forgot to mention it's also about the disillusionment of academia and creative endeavors) in a way that feels truly new.

Get it from Amazon for $17, Barnes and Noble for $22.50, or through IndieBound or your local library.
Read an excerpt here - and join the BuzzFeed Book Club to read it along with us this month.

When a writer loses her best friend and mentor to suicide, her shock is augmented by the fact that he's left her Apollo, his great Dane. Though she's at first reluctant - she's not really a dog person, and her building doesn't even allow dogs - the two end up forming an unlikely bond in their shared grief, and falling into their own kind of love. It is as much an exploration of human-animal relationships as it is about mentor-student relationships, and Sigrid Nunez's keen emotional fluency allows the reader to feel a sense of healing and catharsis alongside her protagonist.

Milkman is a dreamy novel, untethered to specifics; the narrator and location are never named, though Belfast is implied. The 18-year-old protagonist - "middle sister" as she refers to herself - is ethereal, too, narrating her life in long sentences that almost bleed into each other, spending her days walking around town while reading 19th-century literature. When she catches the attention of a 41-year-old paramilitary officer nicknamed the milkman, she's too intimidated by him to reject his advances, and she finds herself in an affair she isn't keen on, gaining notoriety she feels ambivalent about. Anna Burns' prose is delectable, and Milkman reads like an ethnography that just so happens to be about anywhere.

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Our favorite novels and short story collections, presented in no particular order. Posted on December 7, 2018, at 3:11 p.m. ET In Severance, Ling Ma creates an alternate recent past, in which most of humankind has been wiped out by Shen Fever.

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With the valuable input from our reviewers, we've chosen timely, relevant, and necessary titles that will resonate with the older teens in your libraries.

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The Costa Book Awards for 2018 drew a record 641 entries across the program's five categories. In January, the five category winners will be announced, followed by the overall winner's ceremony.

Ten Women, 10 Men Shortlisted

As announced near the end of the week, half of the UK's Costa Book Awards ' 2018 shortlisted titles are debuts. In the poetry category, that goes up to 75 percent of the shortlisted works being debuts.

There are 10 male and 10 female writers nominated, and they range in age from 27 to 75. One of the debut authors shortlisted, Anne Youngson, is 70.

The Costa is one of the most prestigious of the UK market's many awards programs, and the award's messaging prominently features the point that it is "the only major UK book prize open solely to authors resident in the UK and Ireland."

The award is given in five categories: first novel (which helps with that high debut count), novel, biography, poetry and children's literature.

Organizers report that this year's competition has attracted 641 entries, a record in terms of a single year's numbers. Entries are juried by five panels, with three people on each panel.

Winners in each of the five categories are to receive £5,000 (US$6,411). An overall "book of the year" winner is chosen from the five category winners, and that award carries a purse of £30,000 (US$38,467). Since being introduced in 1985, the book of the year prize has gone 12 times to a novel, five times to a first novel, six times to a biography, eight times to a poetry collections, and twice to a children's book.

The five category winners are to be announced on January 7, and the book of the year winner will be named on January 29.

2018 Costa Novel Award Shortlist

Jurors: Justine Jordan, Rachel Joyce, Zool Verjee (173 entries)

2018 Costa First Novel Award Shortlist

Jurors: Emma Corfield-Walters, Nina Pottell, Sathnam Sanghera (117 entries)

2018 Costa Biography Award Shortlist

Jurors: Paula Byrne, Anita Sethi, Paul Wallace (140 entries)

2018 Costa Poetry Award Shortlist

Jurors: Mimi Khalvati, James Munroe, Sameer Rahim (80 entries)

2018 Costa Children's Book Award Shortlist

Jurors: Rick O'Shea, Fleur Sinclair, Imogen Russell Williams (131 entries)

'Books You'll Want To Pass On to Others'

Established in 1971 by Whitbread Plc, Costa announced its takeover of the sponsorship in 2006, and 2018 is the award program's 47th year.

To be eligible for the 2018 Costa Book Awards, books must have been first published in the UK or Ireland between November 1, 2017, and October 31 of this year, with "their authors resident in the UK for the previous three years."

In a prepared statement, Costa's managing director, Dominic Paul, is quoted, saying, "There's genuinely something for everyone in our shortlists this year: books which will make you laugh and books which will make you cry; books which will make you think; books which you'll read late into the night; and, most of all, books which you'll want to recommend and pass on to others.

"My sincere thanks go to all our 15 category judges who've done such an excellent job of selecting 20 of this year's most exciting, inspiring and enjoyable reads."

The 2017 Costa Book of the Year was Inside the Wave from Bloodaxe Books ,awarded posthumously to Helen Dunmore, and you can read our story on it here.
More from Publishing Perspectives on the Costa Book Awards is here, and more on publishing awards in general is here.
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The UK's Costa Book Awards Shortlists: Half Debuts, £35,000 in Prize Money

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The Costa Book Awards for 2018 drew a record 641 entries across the program's five categories. In January, the five category winners will be announced, followed by the overall winner's ceremony. Ten Women, 10 Men Shortlisted As announced near the end of the week, half of the UK's Costa Book Awards ' 2018 shortlisted titles are debuts.

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The voting is done, and Goodreads has announced the winners of their 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. If you're not familiar (and didn't get to vote!), Goodreads releases nominees for the best books of the year in genres like fiction, nonfiction, poetry, romance, sci-fi, YA, and several others. Readers vote, or write-in new nominees, and a second found of finalists is released. Voting continues, and a third round of finalists is released before the big announcement comes in early December. And today is that day!

I've included the full list of winners below, but I want to pause and talk about a new category that Goodreads included this year. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Goodreads Choice Awards, they introduced the Best of the Best category, where readers were asked to vote on the ultimate best book from the 170 past winners in the competition. The winner is Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give. She took the top spot at an 8K+ lead over the runner up (All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr). THUG has been a Book Riot favorite, and we're psyched to see her book chosen from such a large pool of titles.

A couple of other noteworthy wins: Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone won in the Debut Author category. You might remember that Adeyemi's book was the inaugural pick for Jimmy Fallon's book club on The Tonight Show. She claimed the top spot at a whopping 35K lead over the runner up. So, she didn't just win, she really won.

If no one has told you about The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang yet, do yourself a favor, call out of work, and read it today. Hoang's book won for Romance in a category that boasted a diverse and exciting group of finalists. Lots of buzzy books from this year.

Speaking of diversity, Goodreads showed a bit of improvement in that category. Winners in the 2017 Awards showed 20% books by authors of color (with Angie Thomas's THUG taking two of those spots). This year's awards round out to 29% books by authors of color.

See the complete list of winners below, and then get your book shopping on!

2018 Goodreads choice award winners

fiction

mystery and thriller

The Outsider by Stephen King

historical fiction

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

fantasy

by Madeline Miller

best of the best

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

romance

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Science fiction

horror

by Stephen King

humor

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

nonfiction

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

memoir and autobiography

by Tara Westover

history and biography

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King

science and technology

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte

food and cookbooks

Cravings: Hungry for More by Chrissy Teigen

graphic novels and comics

Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen

poetry

The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace

debut author

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

young adult fiction

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

young adult fantasy

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

middle grades and children's

The Trials of Apollo: Book Three, The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan

picture books

by Grace Byers

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