@edieshortlist
the National Book Award for Fiction, last ten winners
10 items
- 01The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)
- 02Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward (2017)
- 03The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (2018)
- 路路7 more entries
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goodreads choice 2025 winners, the categories I track
not doing all fifteen categories, skipping the ones that aren't my lane (sorry YA, sorry audiobook). as of dec 2025
01
My Friends - Fredrik Backman (Fiction)
(deserved). read this in january and it's stuck with me all year
02
Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid (Historical Fiction)
03
Not Quite Dead Yet - Holly Jackson (Mystery & Thriller)
04
Great Big Beautiful Life - Emily Henry (Romance)
the shortlist was better honestly, this one's just fine
05
Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros (Romantasy)
06
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - V.E. Schwab (Fantasy)
07
The Compound - Aisling Rawle (Science Fiction)
this one surprised me. reality-show dystopia, and it actually earns the ending, most books in this lane don't
08
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix (Horror)
09
Alchemised - SenLinYu (Debut Novel)
started life as fanfiction. if you know you know
10
Everything Is Tuberculosis - John Green (Nonfiction)
11
The House of My Mother - Shari Franke (Memoir & Autobiography)
12
How to Kill a Witch - Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell (History & Biography)
finally got around to adding this category, it took me a while to actually read it
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