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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The Starless Sea just came out today, how have you had time to read it already???!
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.



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?



Not a great short list

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?


Yes! As should translated fiction, to be honest.


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

Full Throttle came out October 2019. You might be thinking of his previous short story collection, Strange Weather, which came out in 2017.

The first round closed yesterday and voting will reopen for the Semifinal Round on November 12th.



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.