It’s no coincidence that Hillary Clinton’s What Happened won the Best Memoir & Autobiography category. The personal is still the political, and what readers choose as their favorite books of the year signifies their mindset. In a year dominated by a misogynistic president, the #MeToo resistance movement, and a continued call for diverse books, it’s not too much of a surprise to see women-authored books resonating with readers. Plain and simple: it reflects whatever book-lovers liked most. One could argue that the Goodreads Choice Awards is the end-of-year list that most indicates what actual, book-purchasing readers want it’s not curated by book review editors influenced by publicists, awards, and buzz in the literary community. And in 2017, women authors dominated the competition.Īs Scott Russell wrote yesterday at Paste, “female authors won a whopping 80 percent of Goodreads’ 2017 awards, prevailing in 16 out of 20 categories including Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, History & Biography, and Poetry.” More than 3.8 million votes were cast by Goodreads users. Goodreads, the social media platform for book lovers, hosts its own Goodreads Choice Awards annually, allowing its community to vote for their favorite books published over the course of the year.

So far, we’ve had top picks from the New York Times, NPR, Publishers Weekly, GQ, Vogue, and the Washington Post, among others.īut perhaps the most democratic list of the year’s best books is Goodreads’.

Women authors dominate the 2017 Goodreads Choice AwardsĢ017 is almost over (good riddance), which means that all your favorite (and not-so-favorite) publications are hitting submit on their “Best Books of 2017” lists.

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