Award Category: Horror (Goodreads Choice Awards)

Award Category: Horror Award Category Record # 732
Award Type: Goodreads Choice Awards
Display Order: 40
Note: Created in 2011. Covers supernatural as well as psychological horror.

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2011

1	Graveminder	Melissa Marr
2	What the Night Knows	Dean R. Koontz
3	Deadline	Seanan McGuire
4	Dreadfully Ever After	Steve Hockensmith
5	The Night Strangers	Chris Bohjalian
6	My Life As a White Trash Zombie	Diana Rowland
7	The President's Vampire	Christopher Farnsworth
8	Eat Slay Love	Jesse Petersen
9	Zone One	Colson Whitehead
10	Aftertime	Sophie Littlefield
11	Seed	Ania Ahlborn
12	The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
13	The Devil All the Time	Donald Ray Pollock
14	The Night Eternal	Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
15	The Cypress House	Michael Koryta
16	The King of Plagues	Jonathan Maberry
17	Raising Stony Mayhall	Daryl Gregory
18	That Which Should Not Be	Brett J. Talley
19	An Apple for Zoë	Thomas Amo
20	Those Across the River	Christopher Buehlman

2012
1	The Twelve	Justin Cronin
2	Odd Apocalypse	Dean R. Koontz
3	On Demon Wings	Karina Halle
4	Blackout	Seanan McGuire
5	Nocturnal	Scott Sigler
6	This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It	David Wong
7	Stay Awake	Dan Chaon
8	White Horse	Alex Adams
9	Red, White, and Blood	Christopher Farnsworth
10	Edge of Dark Water	Joe R. Lansdale
11	Talulla Rising	Glen Duncan
12	Alive in a Dead World	Mark Tufo
13	14	Peter Clines
14	Assassin's Code	Jonathan Maberry
15	Monster Hunter Legion	Larry Correia
16	Blackbirds	Chuck Wendig
17	I, Zombie	Hugh Howey
18	Breed	Scott Spencer
19	The Void	Brett J. Talley
20	The Croning	Laird Barron

2013
1	Doctor Sleep	Stephen King
2	NOS4A2	Joe Hill
3	Red Hill	Jamie McGuire
4	Deeply Odd	Dean R. Koontz
5	The Blood Gospel	Rebecca Cantrell and James Clemens
6	White Trash Zombie Apocalypse	Diana Rowland
7	Parasite	Seanan McGuire
8	The Fate of Mercy Alban	Wendy Webb (I)
9	The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black	E. B. Hudspeth
10	Help for the Haunted	John Searles
11	The Wolves of Midwinter	Anne Rice
12	Kill City Blues	Richard Kadrey
13	Extinction Machine	Jonathan Maberry
14	The Remaining: Fractured	D. J. Molles
15	Shattered Hourglass	J. L. Bourne
16	Come Alive	Karina Halle
17	Ex-Communication	Peter Clines
18	The Accursed	Joyce Carol Oates
19	Red Moon	Benjamin Percy
20	American Elsewhere	Robert Jackson Bennett

2014
1	Prince Lestat	Anne Rice
2	The Girl with All the Gifts	Mike Carey
3	The City	Dean R. Koontz
4	The Winter People	Jennifer McMahon
5	Bird Box	Josh Malerman
6	The Wolf in Winter	John Connolly
7	Code Zero	Jonathan Maberry
8	Innocent Blood	Rebecca Cantrell and James Clemens
9	Pandemic	Scott Sigler
10	Monster Hunter Nemesis	Larry Correia
11	Silence for the Dead	Simone St. James
12	Dust to Dust	Karina Halle
13	The Last Town	Blake Crouch
14	Horrorstör^?Horrorstoer Horrorstor	Grady Hendrix
15	The Purge of Babylon	Sam Sisavath
16	Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
17	The Rhesus Chart	Charles Stross
18	The Getaway God	Richard Kadrey
19	The Troop	Craig Davidson
20	The Three	Sarah Lotz

2015
1	Saint Odd	Dean R. Koontz
2	Alice	Christina Henry
3	The Last American Vampire	Seth Grahame-Smith
4	Slade House	David Mitchell
5	Thicker Than Blood	Claire C. Riley and Madeline Sheehan
6	The Ice Twins	Tom Knox
7	The Night Sister	Jennifer McMahon
9	A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
10	Rolling in the Deep	Mira Grant
12	The Scarlet Gospels	Clive Barker
13	Suicide Forest	Jeremy Bates
14	Abomination	Gary Whitta
15	The Annihilation Score	Charles Stross
16	The Border	Robert R. McCammon
17	Blood Infernal	Rebecca Cantrell and James Clemens
18	Extinction Horizon	Nicholas Sansbury Smith
19	The Deep	Craig Davidson
20	Day Four	Sarah Lotz

2016
1	The Fireman	Joe Hill
3	The City of Mirrors	Justin Cronin
4	Ink and Bone	Lisa Unger
5	Over Your Dead Body	Dan Wells
6	My Best Friend's Exorcism	Grady Hendrix
7	Fellside	Mike Carey
8	Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
9	A Time of Torment	John Connolly
11	Mr. Splitfoot	Samantha Hunt
12	The Visitor	Amanda Stevens
13	The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
14	The Nightmare Stacks	Charles Stross
15	Kill Switch	Jonathan Maberry
16	Grunge	Larry Correia and John Ringo
17	Extinction End	Nicholas Sansbury Smith
18	24690	A. A. Dark
19	The Last Days of Jack Sparks	Jason Arnopp
20	Disappearance at Devil's Rock	Paul Tremblay

2017
1	Sleeping Beauties	Owen King and Stephen King
3	Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis	Anne Rice
4	Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
5	The Boy on the Bridge	Mike Carey
6	Lost Boy	Christina Henry
7	Full Wolf Moon	Lincoln Child
8	The Changeling	Victor LaValle
10	A Game of Ghosts	John Connolly
11	The Awakening	Amanda Stevens
12	Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day	Seanan McGuire
13	What the Hell Did I Just Read	David Wong
14	White Tears	Hari Kunzru
15	Strange Weather	Joe Hill
16	The Delirium Brief	Charles Stross
17	The Kill Society	Richard Kadrey
18	The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
19	A God in the Shed	J-F. Dubeau
20	Bone White	Ronald Malfi

2018
1	Elevation	Stephen King
3	Dracul	J. D. Barker and Dacre Stoker
4	The Passion of Cleopatra	Anne Rice and Christopher Rice
5	The Woman in the Woods	John Connolly
6	The Cabin at the End of the World	Paul Tremblay
7	Craven Manor	Darcy Coates
8	The Hunger	Alma Katsu
9	We Sold Our Souls	Grady Hendrix
10	Flight or Fright	Stephen King and Bev Vincent
11	The Anomaly	Michael Rutger
12	The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror	Mallory Ortberg
13	Foe	Iain Reid
14	The Carrow Haunt	Darcy Coates
15 ^ⓘUnclear if this is genre	The Summer Children	Dot Hutchison
16	The Siren and the Spectre	Jonathan Janz
17	Generation Z	Peter Meredith
18	Zero Day	Ezekiel Boone
19	The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea	Ellen Datlow
20	The Labyrinth Index	Charles Stross

2019
1	The Institute	Stephen King
2	Imaginary Friend	Stephen Chbosky
3	The Girl in Red	Christina Henry
4	The Invited	Jennifer McMahon
5	The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek	Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal
6	Full Throttle	Joe Hill
7	Bunny	Mona Awad
8	Wakenhyrst	Michelle Paver
9	The Twisted Ones	T. Kingfisher
10	A Cosmology of Monsters	Shaun Hamill
11	No One's Home	D. M. Pulley
12	Growing Things and Other Stories	Paul Tremblay
13	Song for the Unraveling of the World	Brian Evenson
14	The Toll	Cherie Priest
15	Violet	Scott Thomas (I)
16	The Remaking	Clay McLeod Chapman
17	The Monster of Elendhaven	Jennifer Giesbrecht
18	The Luminous Dead	Caitlin Starling
19	The Need	Helen Phillips
20	Petra's Ghost	C. S. O'Cinneide

2020
1	Mexican Gothic	Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2	If It Bleeds	Stephen King
3	The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires	Grady Hendrix
4	The Year of the Witching	Alexis Henderson
5	The Only Good Indians	Stephen Graham Jones
6	Devolution	Max Brooks
7	The Hollow Places	T. Kingfisher
8	Plain Bad Heroines	Emily M. Danforth
9	Malorie	Josh Malerman
10	Tender Is the Flesh (translation of Cadáver exquisito^?Cadaver exquisito )	Agustina Bazterrica
11	The Hollow Ones	Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
12	The Bright Lands	John Fram
13	Lakewood	Megan Giddings
14	Survivor Song	Paul Tremblay
15	Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times	P. Djèlí Clark^?P. Djeli Clark
16	The Loop	Jeremy Robert Johnson
17	The Ghost Tree	Christina Henry
18	Secret Santa	Andrew Shaffer
19	World Departed	Sarah Lyons Fleming
20	Houndings of Hell	Hunter Holmes

2021
2	Later	Stephen King
5	My Heart Is a Chainsaw	Stephen Graham Jones
6	The Book of Accidents	Chuck Wendig
7	All's Well	Mona Awad
8	The Drowning Kind	Jennifer McMahon
9	Summer Sons	Lee Mandelo
10	Cackle	Rachel Harrison (I)
11	Comfort Me with Apples	Catherynne M. Valente
12	Chasing the Boogeyman	Richard Chizmar
14	Near the Bone	Christina Henry
16	This Thing Between Us	Gus Moreno
17	When the Reckoning Comes	LaTanya McQueen
18	The Whispering Dead	Darcy Coates
19	Come with Me	Ronald Malfi
20	Where They Wait	Scott Carson

2022
1	Hidden Pictures	Jason Rekulak
2	The Hacienda	Isabel Cañas^?Isabel Canas
3	What Moves the Dead	T. Kingfisher
4	Gwendy's Final Task	Richard Chizmar and Stephen King
5	Juniper & Thorn	Ava Reid
6	Our Wives Under the Sea	Julia Armfield
7	The Children on the Hill	Jennifer McMahon
8	House of Hunger	Alexis Henderson
9	The Violence	Delilah S. Dawson
10	Just Like Mother	Anne Heltzel
11	Manhunt	Gretchen Felker-Martin
12	Gallows Hill	Darcy Coates
13	Small Angels	Lauren Owen
14	We Spread	Iain Reid
15	Such Sharp Teeth	Rachel Harrison (I)
16	Sundial	Catriona Ward
17	The Devil Takes You Home	Gabino Iglesias
18	White Horse	Erika T. Wurth
19 ^ⓘGoodreads reviews indicate this is a psychological horror story with no speculative elements.	The Cherry Robbers	Sarai Walker
20	The Fervor	Alma Katsu

2023
1	Holly	Stephen King
2	How to Sell a Haunted House	Grady Hendrix
3	A House with Good Bones	T. Kingfisher
4	Vampires of El Norte	Isabel Cañas^?Isabel Canas
5	Rouge	Mona Awad
6	My Darling Girl	Jennifer McMahon
7	The September House	Carissa Orlando
8	Silver Nitrate	Silvia Moreno-Garcia
9	Our Share of Night (translation of Nuestra parte de noche)	Mariana Enriquez
10	Lone Women	Victor LaValle
11	Black Sheep	Rachel Harrison (I)
12	Mister Magic	Kiersten White
13	Don't Fear the Reaper	Stephen Graham Jones
14	The Reformatory	Tananarive Due
15 ^ⓘDoes not seem to have any supernatural elements from product descriptions so would be non-genre by ISFDB standards	Natural Beauty	Ling Ling Huang
16	Sisters of the Lost Nation	Nick Medina
17	Monstrilio	Gerardo Sámano Córdova
18	Becoming the Boogeyman	Richard Chizmar
19	Her Little Flowers	Shannon Morgan
20	Dead Eleven	Jimmy Juliano

Award Category: Horror (Goodreads Choice Awards)

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