The 2020 BooktubeSFF Awards winners were revealed during the #BooktubeSFF Awards Liveshow on August 30.

Booktube is the segment of YouTube dominated by booklovers who use the platform to discuss and share our love of reading. SFF stands for Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the BooktubeSFF community are those of us within Booktube who focus our reading on those genres. The BooktubeSFF community isn’t just limited to people who make videos, it’s everyone who watches, comments, and loves SFF!

The judges and public voted separately on the shortlist (public voting ended August 29) and if they picked different books in a given category, two winners were crowned.

2020 WINNERS

Best Fantasy

• WINNER (judges’ vote): Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• WINNER (popular vote): Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Best Debut Novel

• WINNER (judges’ vote): A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• WINNER (popular vote): A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Best Science Fiction

• WINNER (judges’ vote):  A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• WINNER (popular vote): A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Best YA

• WINNER (judges’ vote): The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
• WINNER (popular vote): Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

Best Middle Grade Novel

• WINNER (judges’ vote): Sal & Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
• WINNER (popular vote): Sal & Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez

Best Short Work

• WINNER (judges’ vote): To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
• WINNER (popular vote): This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

The BooktubeSFF Awards were created in 2015.

Although the judges put out the following statement in June and delayed the opening of voting, the shortlist remained unchanged from the one announced in February.

A statement by the BooktubeSFF judges. pic.twitter.com/4nuD1pPKkz

— BooktubeSFF Awards (@booktubesff) June 11, 2020

JUDGES

• Thomas – SFF180
• Kaitlin – Kitty G Books
• Claire Rousseau
• Cass – What Cass Read
• LeeNichole
• Jocelyn – Yogi With A Book
• Njeri – ONYX Pages
• Gavin – How To Train Your Gavin
• Bree – Bree Reads Books
• Noria – Noria Reads
• Jade – Bedtime Bookworm

[Via Locus Online.]