Roya Hakakian is an Iranian-American writer, journalist, and public speaker. Her opinion columns, essays, and book reviews appear in leading English language publications including <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i> and <i>The Atlantic</i>. A founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, she has spoken on a variety of news outlets, from CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS to MSNBC, as well as in Washington D.C. for the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and the State Department with U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken. Her latest book <i>A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious </i>has been called a contemporary Tocquevlllian account by <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> and <i>The Boston Globe</i>. <br/>She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship among many other prizes and has been called one of “the most important activists, academics and jou
Shop all the book winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2023 all in one place. We rounded up the trophy-bearers for each genre here, from fiction to poetry.
Voting has begun in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards: The Best Books 2023 and will continue through November 26. The 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards have two rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. Winners will be announced December 7, 2023. This year a new Romantasy category has been added, and they have