The Winners of Best Fantasy and Best Science Fiction Books from the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards

Last week, Goodreads announced the winners of the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards. This year, there were more than 5.7 million votes cast for the nominated books spanning 17 categories. The winners were all chosen based on members' votes instead of critics or a stuffy exclusive group. Goodreads was kind enough to share the winners for Best Fantasy and Best Science Fiction novels which you’ll find below. What books did you enjoy reading this year?

Best Fantasy

• House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2)

  • By Sarah J. Maas

Fantasy queen Sarah J. Maas takes home her seventh Goodreads Choice Award and her 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 storyteller, shows off her elite world-building chops. Bonus trivia: Maas began writing her first novel at age 16.

• Runner-up: Babel by R.F. Kuang

Best Science Fiction

• Sea of Tranquility

  • By Emily St. John Mandel

In another encouraging triumph for literary sci-fi, 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, the only book. But still. With stories like this and Station Eleven, Mandel is mapping new territories in 21st-century speculative fiction.

• Runner-up: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia