Q1 - Best in Show

[☼ Cristina ☼]

Please sign me up for 4 books :D

1. Goodreads Choice/Mystery and Thriller


2. Goodreads Choice/Historical Fiction


3. Goodreads Choice/Horror


4. Goodreads Choice/Fiction

[Gem]

Best in Show
Duration: January 1 to March 31, 2021
0/3

I'm going to use the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime:

🟪 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard - 2012 Winner

❓ The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower - 2014 Winner
❓ Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French - 2013 Winner
❓ Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson - 2007 Winner

[Sarah]

Please sign me up for 4 books
(1)The British Book Awards 2019/Crime & Thriller

4/4-COMPLETED

List of Books for the Challenge
✅Our House(The British Book Awards 2019/Crime & Thriller)(14/2/21)
✅The Woman in the Window(The British Book Awards 2019/Crime & Thriller)(14/2/21)
✅Macbeth(The British Book Awards 2019/Crime & Thriller)(15/2/21)
✅The Wife Between Us(The British Book Awards 2019/Crime & Thriller)(15/2/21)

[manni]

Update to 47, I changed the total book goal from 20 to 24 :) Thanks!

[Margie]

oshizu, please sign me up for 5 to start. Thanks!

Progress: 5/5

2021 Tournament of Books:

✔︎1. Breasts and Eggs
✔︎2. Interior Chinatown
✔︎3. Leave the World Behind
✔︎4. Luster
✔︎5. The Down Days

[Alison]

Hi oshizu...Thank You for Hosting this Challenge! Please sign me up for 8 books :)

7/7 books read as of 3/28/2021...**Completed**

Hugo Awards/Best Novel
√ 1. The Ten Thousand Doors of January...Nominee for Best Novel 2020
2. A Memory Called Empire...Best Novel 2020
√ 3. The Collapsing Empire...Nominee for Best Novel 2018

Hugo Awards/Best Novella
√ 1. Artificial Condition...Best Novella 2019
√ 2. Binti...Best Novella 2016
√ 3. Home...Best Novella 2018
√ 4. The Night Masquerade...Nominee for Best Novella 2019
***The three Binti novellas will probably be read in the book edition that puts all three novellas together...I can get this from the Library!***
√ 5. Every Heart a Doorway...Best Novella 2017

[Janine]

Please sign me up for six books.

My chosen awards are:

1. Goodreads Choice - YA Fantasy & Science Fiction
Starsight (2020)
Cinderella Is Dead (2020)
The Raven King

2. Hugo Award - Best Novel
The Three-Body Problem (2015)
Spinning Silver (2019)
The City & the City (2010)

[oshizu]

Welcome to Cristina, Gem, Sarah, Margie, Alison, and Janine!
I love seeing which lists and books folks are choosing for this challenge!

@Manni
Whenever you (or any other participant) revises your already-pledged challenge goal, it's fine to simply let me know in your next update comment!
Less work for me that way. *winks

[oshizu]

Everyone who's joined up has been added to Ze List.
I've double-checked the links but let me know if yours won't work for you.

[Megan]

Updated msg 5

Just completed a selection from GR Choice Historical Fiction - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. I have been avoiding this book since it came out, as I represent kids in the system who are sent to kid prison. Almost every detail was accurate, from the terrible food, to the egg-water, to the physical abuse. The thing is, this is historical fiction but this crap is still happening today. These facilities were not shut down after the atrocities at Dozier were finally unearthed and the truth couldn’t be shutout anymore. They now are operated by for-profit companies. Most of the stories this book contains could have been told by children who came out of the facilities last year. We have to stop treating people as disposable. We have to recognize systemic racism and root it out. “I know there’s nothing in here that changes people. In here or out there are the same, but in here no one has to act fake anymore.” “That’s what the school did to a boy. It didn’t stop when you got out. Bend you all kind of ways until you were unfit for straight life, good and twisted by the time you left.” I appreciate everything the author does in this book. Maybe, one day, this will truly be historical fiction in Florida. Definitely worth reading! 5 stars

1/5

[Bobbi]

Love this. Sign me up for 9 please?

Q1 - BEST IN SHOW
Duration: January 1 to March 31, 2021
Progress: 4/9

Goodreads Awards 2020: Fiction
1. The Midnight Library
2. American Dirt
💥3. My Dark Vanessa 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Goodreads Award 2020: Mystery and Thriller
🕵1. Home Before Dark 🌟🌟🌟🌟
2. When No One is Watching
3. The Wives

Goodreads Award 2020: Young Adult Fiction
1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
✨2. One of Us Is Next 🌟🌟🌟🌟
✨3. You Should See Me in a Crown 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[Leslie (PaperAndKindness)]

I'm new to this so let me know if I did it wrong. I'd like to participate in the Best in Show challenge by reading 4 books- one each from the following categories:

Man Booker Prize
1. Shuggie Bain
2. Lincoln in the Bardo
3. Girl Woman Other

Booker International
1. Flights
2. Celestial Bodies

National Book Award
1. Interior Chinatown
2. The Poet X
3. Sing, Unburied, Sing

Goodreads Choice Fiction
1. The Midnight Library
2. Ask Again, Yes
3. Transcendent Kingdom

Progress 0/4

[oshizu]

Alison wrote: "Hi oshizu...Thank You for Hosting this Challenge! Please sign me up for 8 books :)

0/8 books read

Hugo Awards/Best Novel
1. The Ten Thousand Doors of January...Nominee for Best No..."

Alison
I'm sure you understand this already, but just to make sure.
Since you have chosen 2 categories from the same award (Hugo), you will have to read 3 books from one of the categories before you may move to the other category.
Cheers!

[Carol]

Hello! Excited to join in. Please sign me up for 10 books for best in show.

Goodreads choice awards
✅ The Girl with the Louding Voice debut novel 2020 COMPLETED 1/1/20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ The Vanishing Half Historical Fiction 2020 COMPLETED 12/1/21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅The Nightingale historical fiction 2015 COMPLETED ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Women’s prize for Fiction
✅ Dominicana shortlist 2020 COMPLETED 8/1/21⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ The Siege shortlist 2002 COMPLETED 17/1/21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line long list 2020 COMPLETED 29/3/21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅Stay with Me Longlist 2017 COMPLETED 30/1/21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ordinary People shortlist 2019 COMPLETED 27/3/21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Booker
✅10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World shortlist 2019 COMPLETED ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ Life of Pi winner 2002 COMPLETED ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Progress- 10/10 challenge complete! Whoop!
Happy reading everyone!

[oshizu]

Megan wrote: "Updated msg 5

Just completed a selection from GR Choice Historical Fiction - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. I have been avoiding this book since it came out, as I represent k..."

Megan
Thanks so much for the in-depth review!
I really appreciate your comparison of the narrative with the realities of extreme abuse and racial discrimination against children.

[oshizu]

Update to msg 11
I also completed my first qualifying book today:

Death's End: Hugo Awards/Best Novel (2017 Shortlist)
4.5 stars rounded up.
I very much struggled through the many pages of scientific theorizing and technological explanations.
My favorite segment of this last book in Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy has to revolve around the fairy tales. Ken Liu's translation is seamless and masterfully transparent.
The author gives us chilling, intricately detailed glimpses of one possible future for human civilization.
I'm glad to have read this trilogy but, um, no more hard science fiction for me for a while.

Progress: 1/15

[oshizu]

Bobbi and Leslie, welcome to Best in Show!

Also, welcome to the group and to our group's challenges.
Whenever signing up for a challenge, it's helpful to the challenge leader if you indicate your challenge goal in numbers, rather than as part of a paragraph. You could indicate your goal as follows:
Progress: 0/4

Happy reading to you both!

[oshizu]

Carol wrote: "Hello! Excited to join in. Please sign me up for 10 books for best in show.

Goodreads choice awards
The Girl with the Louding Voice debut novel 2020
[book:The Vanishing Half|5179..."

Carol
Welcome to the challenge! You posted while I was busy typing away in another post, lol! I will add you to Ze List as soon as I can.
Great book choices!

[Carol]

Update to comment 65, I’m out of the starting blocks and have read my first book.
Progress 1/10.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.

[Megan]

Updated msg 5

Just completed my first nominee for Reading Women’s Fiction award - Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson. I love the characters in this book. I love how the author uses every day items and things to explain who they are and what they want. I appreciate the craft of her prose, but I wish she had added just a few more words to flesh out the story. Overall, really good and worth reading! 4.5 stars

2/5

[Blagica , Challenges]

Please sign me up for 10 books!

[Alyana]

Happy New Year everyone!

Update to message #6: 2/8

[Allie]

Hi I am going to start with 6 books
Progress: 6/6

Goodreads Choice Awards/Fiction
✔️Anxious People
✔️The Midnight Library
✔️Dear Edward

Goodreads Choice Awards/Mystery
✔️The Guest List
✔️When No One is Watching
✔️One by One

[Allie]

Update to message 74: 1/6 Anxious People

[Navya]

Update to comment 4! Read 1/9 books

Finished my first book for the challenge, The City in the Middle of the Night which was shortlisted for best novel in 2020 for Hugo Awards. It was a really interesting book and on my TBR for a while now! So glad I got to it :)

[oshizu]

Welcome, Blagica and Allie, to Best in Show!

Congrats to all who have finished grooming and started prancing!
Ze Lists are updated to here.

[Rebecca]

Update message #19: 1/20

I read a Newberry winner from 1960 My Side of the Mountain.

I buddy read it with my 14-year-old, and she says that if she ever runs away from home that she'll be taking this book as an instruction manual for how to survive! :-D

[Veronica]

Hello! Please sign me up for 5 :)



National Book Critics Circle Award
1. Americanah- 2013, winner
2. The Goldfinch- 2013, finalist

Goodreads Choice Awards/Romance
1. One to Watch- 2020, finalist

Goodreads Choice Awards/Historical Fiction
1. Daisy Jones & The Six- 2019, winner
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo- 2017, finalist

[Joey]

Update Message 28:
Progress 1 of 5

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

I listened to the Daveed Diggs narration of this without having heard Clippings song or been aware of Drexciya and the existing mythology, but found it wholly unique; a fantastical alternate history retelling of murder victims from the Middle Passage where the fiction part of sci-fi comes not from technology but evolution.

[Alyana]

Update to message #6 and the details here.
Progress: 3/8

[BookishlyWise]

Please sign me up for 3 books for Q1 Challenge.
Progress : #/3
Pulitzer -
The Snow Child
Andrew Carnegie Fiction :
Homegoing
Station Eleven

UPDATED the total to 3. Just realized one of my reads was for April BR, so not Q1.

[Brittany]

Please add me in for 8 please!

1/8 complete

Nebula Award/Best Novel

Edgar Award/Best Crime Fact
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton finished 2/28/2021

Locus Award/Horror Novel

Hugo Award/Best Graphic Story
Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan finished 1/17/2021 (won 2013)

[L Y N N]

Update to message #27:
1/6 as of January 5
Going to work on ALA Alex Award winners!

By the way, oshizu, I wanted to thank you for always linking directly to our posting! That is such a help to me!

[oshizu]

Veronica, Bibliophile, and Brittany
A big, warm welcome to Best in Show!
I do enjoy seeing everyone's choice of lists and books! 😁

[oshizu]

Lynn wrote: "Update to message #27:
1/6 as of January 5
Going to work on ALA Alex Award winners!

By the way, oshizu, I wanted to thank you for always linking directly to our posting! That is such a help to me!"

Lynn
I'm glad you find it helpful.
Links are a boon for ensuring we spend less time updating and more time reading, amirite? *winks

Just so you know, a single post can only hold 90-ish linked participants, so it only works for the smaller challenges.

[oshizu]

Joey wrote: "Update Message 28:
Progress 1 of 5

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

I listened to the Daveed Diggs narration of this without having heard Clippings song or been aware ..."

I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed The Deep, as it's one of my 2021 TBRs. :)
Thanks for sharing your impressions!

[BookishlyWise]

Hi Oshizu - I edited my goal to 3 from 4 as I realized one of my books was a buddy read for April, so not in Q1 :) I've edited my original Message 82.

[[deleted user]]

Update message 15
oshizu, please decrease my goal to 6 books. Thank you!

[Ushashi]

Update to message #18

Progress 1/5

>Station Eleven (National Book Award 2015 shortlisted) - Finished on 06/01/2021

It was a very good read for me. Eerily relevant for the present days, frightening yet hopeful. Here's my short review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Emejota]

Hi, I would like to join with 12 books :)

Progress: 1/12

Goodreads Choice Awards/Young Adult Fiction 2017
✔ 1. One of Us Is Lying
2. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
3. Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Goodreads Choice Awards/Young Adult Fiction 2018
1. Sadie
2. What If It's Us
3. The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

Goodreads Choice Awards/Young Adult Fiction 2019
1. Five Feet Apart
2. I Wish You All the Best
3. American Royals

Goodreads Choice Awards/Young Adult Fiction 2020
1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
2. One of Us Is Next
3. Majesty

[Lisa]

I was 150% sure I had signed up for this challenge. huh.
Okay well, I'm in for 6.

2 from 3 categories. I'm not sure the categories yet though, I just know they'll all be from the Goodreads Choice Awards.

[oshizu]

@Bibliophile and Regina

I have adjusted your challenge goals in my spreadsheet, as you equested!
Ze Lists will be updated in several days.

[oshizu]

@Johanne and Lisa
Welcome to Best in Show!

I've added you both to my spreadsheet and will be updating Ze Lists in several days.

[Carol]

Update to message 65, I’ve now completed 2 / 10 . Happy weekend everyone 😊

[Sunny]

Update Msg #7

I read Friday the Rabbi Slept Late this past week.

This mystery, featuring Rabbi David Small, won the Edgar for Best First Novel back in 1965, the year that I was born, which makes it somewhat similar to me – an oldie, but a goodie! I figured out whodunnit fairly early on, but enjoyed the process of reading and seeing how the characters interacted with each other and how they solved the murder. If you’re looking for a good mystery set during the 1960s this one is a place to start. 3 stars.

1/8

[Joey]

Update message 28
Progress 2/5

Completed All Systems Red by Martha Wells, a novella about a nihilistic security bot that disabled his command governor and just wants to watch soap operas.

[L Y N N]

Update to message #27:
2/6 as of January 11!

[Emejota]

Update message #91. Progress: 1/12

[Carol]

Update message #65 progress 3/12

[oshizu]

Update to msg 11: 6/21

(1) Booker International/Fiction: 1/4
✔️1. The Vegetarian (2016 winner, wit) 4 stars

(2a) CWA Dagger Awards/International: 2/4
✔️1. The Three Evangelists (2006 winner) 4 stars
✔️2. Little Siberia (2020 shortlist) 3.5 stars

(3) Macavity Awards/Best First Mystery Novel: 1/4
✔️1. Blanche on the Lam (1993 winner) 4 stars

(4a) Hugo Awards/Best Novel: 2/5
✔️2. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2011 winner) 4.5 stars