Goodreads Choice Award Winners Historical Fiction

Awards List

2023

Weyward (Winner)
Emilia Hart

Mar-2023
/ Women's Fiction

2022

Carrie Soto Is Back (Winner)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Sep-2022
/ Women's Fiction

2021

Malibu Rising (Winner)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Jun-2021
/ Women's Fiction

2020

The Vanishing Half (Winner)
Brit Bennett

Jun-2020
/ Women's Fiction

2019

Daisy Jones & The Six (Winner)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Mar-2019
/ Historical

2018

The Great Alone (Winner)
Kristin Hannah

Feb-2018
/ Historical

2017

Before We Were Yours (Winner)
Lisa Wingate

Jun-2017
/ Historical

2016

The Underground Railroad (Winner)
Colson Whitehead

Sep-2016
/ Historical

2015

The Nightingale (Winner)
Kristin Hannah

Feb-2015
/ Historical

2014

All the Light We Cannot See (Winner)
Anthony Doerr

May-2014
/ Historical

2013

Life After Life (Winner)
Kate Atkinson

Apr-2013
/ Literary

2012

The Light Between Oceans (Winner)
M.L. Stedman

Aug-2012
/ Psychological Suspense

2011

The Paris Wife (Winner)
Paula McLain

Feb-2011
/ Literary

2010

Fall of Giants (Winner)
Ken Follett

Oct-2010
/ Historical

Award Categories

Favorite Book of 2010

Favorite Book of 2011

Fiction

Goodreads Author

Graphic Novels & Comics

Historical Fiction

Horror

Middle Grade & Children's

Award Years