Winners are determined by users voting on books that Goodreads has nominated or books of their choosing, released in the given year.
The final voting round collects the top 10 books from 20 different categories.
[1] Several authors have won multiple Goodreads Readers Choice Awards or the same award in multiple years.
Stephen King and both his sons, Owen and Joe, have won The Goodreads Choice Awards.
The table below sets out those authors to have won more than one award: (Listed by number of wins, then alphabetically by surname)