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It's Time to Vote in the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards!
Your vote counts! We need your help selecting the best books of the year during the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards, our 11th annual event where readers select the best-of-the-best books across 20 categories.
As you've rated your favorite books of 2019, we've been paying attention. We've analyzed the data from the hundreds of millions of books rated, reviewed, and added to Want to Read Shelves this year to determine which books made the cut in our Opening Round.
These 300 initial nominees have a combined average rating of 4.12 stars and have been added on Goodreads more than 13 million times.
Last year, bookworms cast more than 5 million votes in the only major book awards decided by readers. Starting today, you can pick your favorite titles from 2019!
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Opening Round (November 5 to November 10): Go to the Goodreads Choice Awards page to start voting! Take note: Only books published in the U.S. between November 16, 2018, and November 15, 2019, are eligible.
- Don't see your favorite book in a category? You can always write it in! But write-in votes will be considered only during the Opening Round!
- Semifinal Round (November 12 to November 17): Here you'll choose a book from 20 nominees in each category. These books will be the 15 nominees from the Opening Round plus the top five write-ins.
- Final Round (November 19 to December 2): The finish line is in sight! Once the competition has been whittled down in the Semifinal Round, you'll vote for one of the 10 top nominees in each category.
- The winners are announced on December 10.
Cast your vote now!
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There are too many books I loved in the same category! This is tough this year.
I cannot understand why Joe Hill's book is on the list as that came out in hard back last year
We gotta get What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics on that Best Memoirs & Autobiographies section.
Good books are many, I've lost count of my choices
I love when we get to vote on the top books every year!
I legitimately don't know how I'm going to pick between Middlegame and The Starless Sea in the same category.
Laura wrote: "I legitimately don't know how I'm going to pick between Middlegame and The Starless Sea in the same category."The Starless Sea just came out today, how have you had time to read it already???!
@Sarah Marie- She’s either a super fast reader and/or she received an advanced reading copy.
Unfortunately, the only latest 2019 books I have read is Dork Diaries and Royal Crown neither are listed in Young Children or Young Adult.
I did put my own book up for Vote though in Romance, so why not.
I did put my own book up for Vote though in Romance, so why not.
Why no historical romance?! Joanna Shupe, Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, Lisa Kleypas......just to name some of the authors who had fabulous books out this year.
I would like to, but none of the 2019 releases I've read so far are actually eligible because they are all UK-published (or in languages other than English).
From the eligibility rules: Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between November 16, 2018, and November 15, 2019, are eligible for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards.
Today is November 5th. The first round of voting ends November 10th. So any book that gets released to the public in the next ten days, even after the first round of voting is closed, can be a write-in?
Are we just not even pretending anymore that these "awards" are about books the book-buying (and library using) public really did and thought excellent? The ARC-reading population may have seen some of these books, but that is a relatively small -- although not as small as it should be -- percent of readers.
This question gets asked (many times) every single year, so let's keep up the ritual: why not move the eligibility cutoff date to at least one month prior to opening voting?
Encouraging a write in vote for The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek in the historical fiction category. Same subject matter as The Giver of Stars but not getting as much hype because the author is not as well known. A much better book.
Despite reading a few releases from this year... Typical me hasn't read ANY of these on the list! :')
Basically had to write in for every category and loads of new releases I wanted to nominate weren't eligible because they're British.Not a great short list
Yaaresse wrote: "From the eligibility rules: Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between November 16, 2018, and November 15, 2019, are ..."
Yes. Thank you. The book The Toll by Neal Shusterman was released today. Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea was released today. If these "awards" are only meant to be for ARC readers, why pretend it's for everyone?
Where are your independently published novels? This should be its own category.
There were about 11 books that I read that I found on this list. Most of them were average-ish ..., and I gave 4 stars to only 3 of them, and dang, two of them were in the same category.
C.L. wrote: "Where are your independently published novels? This should be its own category."Yes! As should translated fiction, to be honest.
One very strongly feels the Goodreads Choice Awards should be renamed the Oh, I actually read that one awards ;)
Chuck wrote: "Pretty weak year for books."Agree
Love vs= Weed: Shades of a poison, called Love Do vote for this book, this is mine under Debut Novel or you can search it under Poetry as well. Extend your support. I have voted for my favourite this year, under poetry.
Please share your love and support for my Debut.
Love Vs= Weed
Author - Shivi Goyal
Stephen wrote: "I cannot understand why Joe Hill's book is on the list as that came out in hard back last year"Full Throttle came out October 2019. You might be thinking of his previous short story collection, Strange Weather, which came out in 2017.
I can’t see the list or vote - did something change this year?
Katie wrote: "I can’t see the list or vote - did something change this year?"The first round closed yesterday and voting will reopen for the Semifinal Round on November 12th.
It's November 13th. How come I cannot see what the semifinal titles are? I keep getting the full list.
I like to vote but once the next round comes up I hate not being able to go back and see all the nominees. Anyone know a way to see the complete list of all the nominees even if they have been voted out?
The annual Goodreads Choice Awards are by far my least favorite part of this wonderful website. In short, the entire system of awards creates an illusion of choice while keeping the sites users from actually becoming informed.
See the GCA description often found on Goodreads:
"Decided by voting open to all members of Goodreads, the Goodreads Choice Awards are the only major book awards chosen by readers. Voting in 20 categories happens in November, and the winners are announced in December. The GCAs launched in 2009.
Goodreads analyzes statistics from the hundreds of millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on the site to select 15 worthy nominees in 20 categories. Write-in votes are also accepted during the Opening Round so readers can vote for exactly the book they want. In this way, receiving a Goodreads Choice nomination is truly an honor that comes straight from the readers."
That's 300 books, 200 finalists, for users to vote on in a less than two-month window. If you're like me and frequent two or three categories, you have 20-30 books you'd have to read just to make an informed vote.
And the average goodreads user pledged 5.25 books per month for the 2019 Reading Challenge. So even if we dedicated all our time to reading the books up for awards we'd still fall short of a single category.
The goodreads choice awards could be better; we could be aware of top contenders each month during the year, but we're not. Hopefully the good people at goodreads improve the system, but until then it's just the Goodreads Popularity Contest.
I voted 2 books and one of them is from the current 2020 Democratic Primary Candidate.