Q1 - Looking Back at the Best

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

1/6

Artemis by Andy Weir from GR Choice Awards

[Candiss]

I updated message #11.

Read: 3/6

Edited in the evening after finishing another book:

Read: 4/6

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 5/30

[[deleted user]]

Message #23 update

10. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 19.01.2019 ★★★★☆

2/12

[Chalmation]

Updated message #21

1/3

[Kelly]

update to message #9: 3/5 completed. Latest title is "Less" by Andrew Greer. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 6/30

[oshizu]

Update to msg #7:

Progress: 7/15
(Oops, raised my challenge goal again!)

[Claire]

Carmen, I already had you at 5 books, so I checked, and counted 6 on your message, so I put you at that.

oshizu, you can raise that goal as often as you'd like!

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 7/30

[Octothorpe Reader Leora K]

LOOKING BACK AT THE BEST
Duration: January 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019

Completed 7/5

1. - - Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and for Debut Author (2018)
2. - - Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2018)
3. - - Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2018)
4. - - Goodreads Choice Award for Humor (2017)
5. - - Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2019), Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy (2018), Alex Award (2019)
6. - - Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction (2018)
7. - - Bluestem Book Award Nominee (2020), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children's (2018)

[Octothorpe Reader Leora K]

Kristin wrote: "LOOKING BACK AT THE BEST
Duration: January 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019

The start of the year is a great time to discover new genres, authors, and formats. For this challenge, you'll be reading from m..."

Hi Kristin,
Not sure if this is a stupid question - "Finalists (not winners): GoodReads Choice Awards", are those all the nominees or only the ones that made it to final voting round?

[Claire]

Update, message #6, 1/5 books read

[Alicja]

Read/Goal - 5/6

The Ultimate List

1 The Kiss Quotient, finished 2/15/19
2 The Wife Between Us
3 The Tattooist of Auschwitz, finished 2/15/19
4 I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer finished 1/27/19
5 The Library Book finished 1/17/19
6

[Katherine]

Q1 - Looking Back at the Best

0/4

The Best Book's 2018 Awards

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 8/30

[Octothorpe Reader Leora K]

Kristin wrote: "Hi Leora, you can read all nominees for this challenge."
Thank you!

[Octothorpe Reader Leora K]

Update to message 65
Completed 1
Goal 2 Books

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 9/30

[[deleted user]]

Message #23 update

3/12

5. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi 30.01.2019 ★★☆☆☆

[Candiss]

I updated message #11.

Read: 5/6

[Blagica , Challenges]

I will sign up for 6 books. I have read 2/6
Circe
The Last Black Unicorn

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

I am at 4/6

2. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi from GR Choice Awards
3. Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King from GR Choice Awards
4. Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris from NPR

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 11/30

[Janine]

Update: 4/6 Goodreads Choice Award 2018 finalists.

1. A Court of Frost and Starlight (finalist YA Fantasy)
2. The Kiss Quotient (winner Romance)
3. Thunderhead (finalist YA Fantasy)
4. Killing Commendatore (finalist Fiction)


4/6

[[deleted user]]

Updated Message 33.
Challenge complete -- 5/5

[Kelly]

4/5 completed. Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson. Giller Award Finalist 2017Son of a Trickster

[Mie]

Update msg 12: 5/5 COMPLETE ✔️
Not sure how many more I’ll be reading, so I think, I’ll leave it there 😉

[Claire]

Update to message #6 to show 2/5 books read.

[Janet]

Update to message 20

1/5

[Megan]

Update to msg 38:

1/6 read

Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 12/30

[Octothorpe Reader Leora K]

Update to message 65
Goal increased to 4 Books

[[deleted user]]

Message #23 update

4/12

11. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah 09.02.2019 ★★★★★

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 14/30

[Megan]

Update to msg 38:
2/6 read

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories by Vincent Lam

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 15/30

[Candiss]

I updated message #11.

Read: 6/6

I've reached my goal, but I will probably read others from my list.

[[deleted user]]

Message #23 update

5/12

4. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa 12.02.2019 ★★★★☆

[Octothorpe Reader Leora K]

Updated message 65
Completed 2
Goal 4 Books

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 16/30

[Kara quinata]

Hi I’m Kara… Zimbabwe going to challenge 0/8…
Ultimate List:
Shatter
Heir of Fire
Elevation
Courting Darkness
King of Scars
Strange the Dreamer
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
The Silent Patient

[Kara quinata]

Sorry I don’t know why Zimbabwe is on my message!

[Janet]

Update to message 85
2/5

[Kelly]

Update to message #9. Challenge completed! 5/5
Everything I never told you, by Celeste Ng.
Awards/accolades: New York Times Bestseller · A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice · Winner of the Alex Award· Winner of the APALA Award for Fiction · NEA Big Read Selection

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:

NPR · San Francisco Chronicle · Entertainment Weekly · The Huffington Post · Buzzfeed · Amazon · Grantland · Booklist · St. Louis Post Dispatch · Shelf Awareness · Book Riot · School Library Journal · Bustle · Time Out New York · Mashable · Cleveland Plain Dealer

[oshizu]

Update to msg #7:


Progress: 15/15
Challenge completed!

[Brittany]

Update to message #10

2/5 completed!

[Carmen]

Message #35 updated: 17/30

[Meghan L]

3/3
COMPLETED 2/21/19

1. Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy (multi-author anthology)
2. Still Me (Goodreads Choice Award Winner)
3. Elevation (Goodreads Choice Award Winner)

[Janine]

Update: 6/6 Complete! Will still be trying to read another couple if I can.

5. It Ends with Us (finalist Best of Best)
6. Vox (finalist Best of Best)