Goodreads Choice Awards – Nonfiction — Complete Winners List

17 years of winners · Goodreads · Since 2009 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	Everything Is Tuberculosis	John Green	—
2024	The Anxious Generation	Jonathan Haidt	Penguin Press
2023	Poverty, by America	Matthew Desmond	Crown
2022	Atlas of the Heart	Brené Brown	Random House
2021	The Anthropocene Reviewed	John Green	Dutton
2020	Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, & You	Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi	—
2019	Girl, Stop Apologizing	Rachel Hollis	—
2018	I'll Be Gone in the Dark	Michelle McNamara	Harper
2017	How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life	Lilly Singh	—
2016	Hamilton: The Revolution	Lin-Manuel Miranda	Grand Central Publishing
2015	Modern Romance: An Investigation	Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg	—
2014	The Opposite of Loneliness	Marina Keegan	—
2013	The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum	Temple Grandin and Richard Panek	—
2012	Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking	Susan Cain	Crown
2011	The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth	Alexandra Robbins	—
2010	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	Crown
2009	Columbine	Dave Cullen	Twelve