2012 Goodreads Choice Awards
Goodreads, a site popular with readers for sharing book reviews and recommendations, has released the 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards. Over 1 million readers cast their votes for their favorite titles. Check out some of the winners below.
Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Fiction
Amazon Says: When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market squa...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Mystery & Thriller
Amazon Says: Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its d...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Historical Fiction
Amazon Says: The debut of a stunning new voice in fiction— a novel both heartbreaking and transcendent After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to A...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Fantasy
Amazon Says: In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most begu...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Science Fiction
Amazon Says: An unmissable milestone for fans of Sir Terry Pratchett: the first SF novel in over three decades in which the visionary inventor of Discworld has created a new universe of ta...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Romance
Amazon Says: When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their live...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Horror
Amazon Says: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The end of the world was only the beginning. In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justi...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for History & Biography
Amazon Says: In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Eliz...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Nonfiction
Amazon Says: At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-prom...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Memoir
Amazon Says: Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—a...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Humor
Amazon Says: For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Poetry
Amazon Says: Mornings with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver In A THOUSAND MORNINGS, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting...
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Margaret D. Says: Goodreads winner for Young Adult
Amazon Says: TIME Magazine’s #1 Fiction Book of 2012! The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an...
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