For the first time in 40 years, the annual People's Choice Awards added new book categories to its list of accolades. The nominations were selected with the help of The Reading Room for voters to decide the best reads of 2015.

Although there was one category specifically for Favorite Fantasy novel, which went to Sabaa Tahir's "An Ember in the Ashes," another fantasy themed novel also snagged the award for Favorite Young Adult novel: "The Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard.

Although the People's Choice Awards is more known for presenting the year's favorites from the world of music, television, and film, the addition of book categories to the awards, which is decided upon by public voting, is a welcome change.

The People's Choice Awards teamed up with The Reading Room to select the novels nominated which included some of the best and even controversial books published in 2015 such as Harper Lee's post-humous "Go Set A Watchman."

The winners were selected via online voting on TheReadingRoom.com, which ended on Jan. 28.

Notably, there was no category for Favorite Science Fiction novel, however bibliophiles are hopeful that this could be a category that could be added at next year's People's Choice Awards.

The complete list of nominees and winners are as follows:

Favorite Fiction

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah - WINNER
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

Favorite Nonfiction

Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling - WINNER
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

Favorite Crime And Mystery

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter - WINNER
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
The Cartel by Don Winslow
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
X by Sue Grafton

Favorite Young Adult

The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard - WINNER
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Favorite Fantasy

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir - WINNER
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Prachett
Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Favorite Romance

Confess by Colleen Hoover - WINNER
After You by Jojo Moyes
The Deal by Elle Kennedy
Grey by E.L. James
Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts

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