Read the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Starts January 2024
Ends: This challenge is set to end at the end of the 2025

Let's celebrate all the nominees & winners of the 2023 Goodreads Awards by reading books that were nominated and/or won. Set your own personal goal for this challenge. I understand that libraries may have extremely long wait times for some of these newer books. I will run this challenge as long as there is interest.

Categories
Best Fiction
Best Mystery & Thriller
Best Historical Fiction
Best Fantasy
Best Romance
Best Romantasy
Best Science Fiction
Best Horror
Best Humor
Best Nonfiction
Best Memoir & Autobiography
Best History & Biography
Best Debut Novels
Best Young Adult Fiction
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction


Rules
📗I am throwing away the standard rules for this challenge ONLY
📘You may read books in any category that you want
📕You may read books in as many categories as you want
📗No page limits
📘Books read must be on one of the provided lists
📕There are no minimum or maximum # of books required for this challenge

Participants
Geri
Alyana
Donna
Trisha
Bobbi
Ashley
Christene Paula
Shan A
Vicki
Tonya
Heather
Jenn

[Alyana]

Read the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards

Starts January 2024
Ends: TBD

Best Fiction
Maame
Hello Beautiful
Five Star Weekend
The Celebrants

Best Mystery & Thriller
The Housemaid's Secret
What Lies in the Woods
The River We Remember
The Coworker

Romance
Love Theoretically
Romantic Comedy
True Love Experiment
The Long Game
Yours Truly
Seven Years Slip
Hello Stranger
You Again
Pucking Around

Best Humor
Leslie F*cking Jones

Best Young Adult Fiction
Check & Mate
Imogen Obviously

Read in 2023
None of This Is True ★★★★☆
The Only One Left ★★★★☆
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers ★★★★☆
All the Dangerous Things ★★★★☆
The Villa ★★★☆☆
The Maid's Diary ★★★★☆
Happy Place ★★★★☆
Things We Hide from the Light ★★★☆☆
Meet Me at the Lake ★★★★☆
The Woman in Me ★★★★★
Spare ★★★★★
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute ★★★☆☆
Five Survive ★★★★☆
One of Us Is Back ★★★★☆

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Read the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards

Previously Read Books
The Housemaid's Secret (mystery & thriller) 6/4/23
Fourth Wing (romantasy) 11/9/23
Delicious Monsters (young adult fantasy & science fiction) 11/26/23

[Trisha]

Goodreads Choice Awards: 2023

50/50
(43 read in 2023 - 93/93 total)

Winners: To Read: 5/5

Winners: Read in 2023:


Winners Read 2024:


Nominees: Read in 2023


Read in 2024

[Bobbi]

Start: January 1, 2024
End: ➖

Best Fiction
Yellowface
Birnam Wood

Best Mystery & Thriller
None of This Is True
The Only One Left - Riley Sager ✩✩✩✩ 3/6/24
All the Dangerous Things
Bright Young Women
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
I Have Some Questions for You
All the Sinners Bleed
What Lies in the Woods
After That Night
The Villa
Good Bad Girl

Best Historical Fiction
Weyward
The Wind Knows My Name
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

Best Fantasy
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Sword Catcher
The Fragile Threads of Power
Starling House
Stone Blind
Atalanta
Clytemnestra
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
Witch King
VenCo

Best Romantasy
Assistant to the Villain
Throne of the Fallen
A Fire in the Flesh
Fall of Ruin and Wrath

Best Science Fiction
In the Lives of Puppets
The Marriage Act
Chain-Gang All-Stars
System Collapse
The Future
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
The Deep Sky
Some Desperate Glory
Ascension

Best Horror
A House with Good Bones - T. Kingfisher ✩✩✩✩ 4/13/24
Vampires of El Norte
Silver Nitrate
The September House
My Darling Girl
Rouge
Our Share of Night
Lone Women
Black Sheep
Mister Magic
Sisters of the Lost Nation
Natural Beauty
The Reformatory
Don't Fear the Reaper
Monstrilio
Becoming the Boogeyman
Her Little Flowers
Dead Eleven

Best Humor
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
Quietly Hostile: Essays - Samantha Irby ✩ 4/27/24

Best Memoir & Autobiography
The Woman in Me
Spare

Best Debut Novels
The Bandit Queens

Best Young Adult Fiction
The Brothers Hawthorne
One of Us Is Back
Together We Rot
Suddenly a Murder

Best History & Biography
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
Divine Rivals
The Stolen Heir
A Study in Drowning
What the River Knows
Blood Debts
Delicious Monsters
Silver in the Bone

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

2023 Goodreads Choice

Books Read 2024: 11


Books Read in 2025: 1


Categories
Best Fiction
‣ The Wishing Game, Read: 18-Jun-2024
‣ The Bee Sting, Read: 23-Aug-2024

Best Historical Fiction
🏆 Weyward, Read: 15-Nov-2024
‣ The Vaster Wilds, Read: 20-Feb-2024
‣ The Echo of Old Books, Read: 29-Mar-2024

Best Mystery & Thriller
🏆
‣ None of This Is True, Read: 1-Aug-2024

Best Romance
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Best Romantasy
‣

Best Fantasy
🏆
‣ Starling House, Read: 13-Jun-2024

Best Science Fiction
🏆In the Lives of Puppets, Read: 3-Feb-2025
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Best Horror
🏆
‣ A House with Good Bones, Read: 6-Nov-2024

Best YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi
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Best Young Adult Fiction
🏆Check & Mate, Read: 27-Feb-2024
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Best Nonfiction
‣

Best Memoir & Autobiography
‣ Hijab Butch Blues, Read: 11-Mar-2024

Best History & Biography
🏆
‣ A Fever in the Heartland, Read: 19-Jul-2024

Best Humor
🏆
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Completed pre-2024:

[christene_littlelibrary]

Goodreads Choice Award 2023

Reads in 2023: 23 books (24)
Reads in 2024: 8 books (10)

(view spoiler)[Fantasy
TBR
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
The Will of the Many by James Islington
The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
Atalanta by Jennifer Saint
Witch King by Martha Wells
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
VenCo by Cherie Dimanche
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare

READ 2/20


Romantasy
TBR
The Hanging City by Charlie N. Holmberg
The Foxglove King by Hannah F. Whitten
A Soul of Ash and Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror by Carissa Broadbent
A Game of Gods by Scarlett St. Clair
The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon
Bewitched by Laura Thalassa
A Dawn of Onyx by Kate Golden
The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadben
Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
A Fire in the Flesh by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Coven by Harper L. Woods
Sorrow and Starlight by Caroline Peckham
Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco
The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem
A Queen of Thieves & Chaos by K.A. Tucker
A Court This Cruel & Lovely by Stacia Stark
Rule of the Aurora King by Nisha J. Tuli

READ 1/20


Sci-Fi
TBR
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Ascension by Nicholas Binge
System Collapse by Martha Wells
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Deluge by Stephen Markley
Light Bringer by Pierce Brown
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Marriage Act by John Marrs
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Bridge by Lauren Beukes
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Translation State by Ann Leckie

READ 1/20


YA Fantasy and Sci-Fi
TBR
Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao
Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim
Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin
Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou
A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber
House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig
Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare
These Infinite Threads by Tahereh Mafi
Foxglove by Adalyn Grace
The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
The Scarlet Veil by Shelby Mahurin
House of Marionne by J. Elle
Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken
What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez
Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong
Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

READ in 2023: 1

READ in 2024: 2


Fiction
TBR
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Maame by Jessica George
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange
The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbran
Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes

READ in 2023: 1

READ in 2024: 2


Romance
TBR
You, Again by Kate Goldbeck
Final Offer by Lauren Asher
The Right Move by Liz Tomforde
Powerless by Elsie Silver
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
Things We Hide from the Light by Lucy Score
A Long Time Coming by Meghan Quinn
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Wildfire by Hannah Grace
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros
Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams
King of Pride by Ana Huang

READ in 2023: 5

READ in 2024: 2


Historical Fiction
TBR
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin
The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Go as a River by Shelley Read
North Woods by Daniel Mason

READ in 2023: 2

READ in 2024: 1


Mystery and Thriller
TBR
What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
The Coworker by Freida McFadden
Don't Let Her Stay by Nicola Sanders
The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
Homecoming by Kate Morton
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
After That Night by Karin Slaughter
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney

READ in 2023: 5

READ in 2024: 1


Horror
TBR
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Rouge by Mona Awad
Becoming the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
The September House by Carissa Orlando
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Holly by Stephen King
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Mister Magic by Kiersten White
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
Her Little Flowers by Shannon Morgan

READ 2/20


YA Fiction
TBR
Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott
Reign by Katharine McGee
Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick
Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson
One of Us Is Back by Karen M. McManus
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
Immortality by Dana Schwartz
This Time It's Real by Ann Liang
Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt
The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
Suddenly a Murder by Lauren Muñoz
Five Survive by Holly Jackson
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
What Happens After Midnight by K.L. Walther
Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales

READ 1/20


Debut
TBR
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
The September House by Carissa Orlando
Weyward by Emilia Hart
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-As
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul
Maame by Jessica George
One Summer in Savannah by Terah Shelton Harris
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

READ in 2023: 2

READ in 2024: 2


Nonfiction
READ 0/20

Memoir & Biography
READ 1/20
(hide spoiler)]

[Shan ~A~]

Read the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
Duration: Open Ended
Start: January 1, 2024
Ends: ??
Progress:

Books read Prior to Challenge


Categories
Best Fiction
02/03 | 04/07 | 09/06

Best Mystery & Thriller
07/03 | 08/27
Best Historical Fiction
Best Fantasy
03/22
Best Romance
03/07 | 05/11
Best Romantasy
06/18
Best Science Fiction
Best Horror
Best Humor
Best Nonfiction
Best Memoir & Autobiography
Best History & Biography
Best Debut Novels
Best Young Adult Fiction
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

[Vicki]

Goodreads Choice Awards: 2023

18/100

⭐⭐WINNERS TO READ: 11/11 COMPLETED⭐⭐
⭐BEST FICTION: Yellowface 7 January
⭐BEST HISTORICAL FICTION: Weyward 4 October
⭐BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER: The Housemaid's Secret 2 June
⭐BEST ROMANCE: Happy Place 20 July
⭐ROMANTACY: Fourth Wing 25 February
⭐BEST FANTASY: Hell Bent 16 September
⭐BEST SCIENCE FICTION: In the Lives of Puppets 7 December
⭐BEST HORROR: Holly 18 September
⭐BEST YOUNT ADULT FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: Divine Rivals 19 April
⭐BEST YOUNG ADULT: Check & Mate 27 June
⭐BEST HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder 22 April

Winners Read


NOMINEES TO READ:
BEST HISTORICAL FICTION
⭐Banyan Moon 3 March
⭐Beyond That, the Sea 9 April
⭐Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? 28 January
⭐Go as a River 16 January
⭐Hang the Moon 16 November
⭐Lady Tan's Circle of Women 10 February
⭐Let Us Descend 2 May
⭐Looking for Jane 25 April
⭐North Woods 12 July
⭐River Sing Me Home 9 August
⭐The Covenant of Water 6 January
The Echo of Old Books
⭐The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store 1 September
⭐The Keeper of Hidden Books 3 May
⭐The Secret Book of Flora Lea 6 March
⭐The Vaster Wilds 27 May
⭐The Wind Knows My Name 5 March



BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER
⭐All the Dangerous Things 16 April
⭐All the Sinners Bleed 5 June
⭐Bright Young Women 28 May
⭐Don't Let Her Stay 21 January
⭐Good Girl, Bad Blood 14 August
⭐Happiness Falls 17 November
⭐Homecoming 10 March
⭐I Have Some Questions for You 11 January
⭐None of This Is True 1 April
⭐The Coworker 28 April
The Last Devil to Die
⭐The Leftover Woman 15 November
⭐The Maid's Diary 2 February
⭐The Only One Left 21 July
⭐The River We Remember 18 April
⭐The Villa 8 September
⭐What Lies in the Woods 27 April



BEST ROMANCE
A Long Time Coming
⭐The Five-Star Weekend
⭐In the Likely Event
⭐Love, Theoretically 30 January
⭐Meet Me at the Lake
⭐The Seven Year Slip
⭐The True Love Experiment 6 January
⭐You, Again 14 February
⭐Yours Truly 16 January



BEST ROMANTACY
Fall of Ruin and Wrath
A Fire in the Flesh
A Queen of Thieves & Chaos
A Soul of Ash and Blood

BEST FANTASY
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Bookshops & Bonedust
⭐Clytemnestra 5 February
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
The Light Pirate
Starling House
Stone Blind



BEST SCIENCE FICTION
⭐The Future 8 February



BEST HORROR
Becoming the Boogeyman
Don't Fear the Reaper
My Darling Girl
⭐The September House 12 February
⭐The Reformatory 19 February



BEST YOUNG ADULT
Five Survive
Nine Liars
⭐One of Us Is Back 19 February
Suddenly a Murder
The Davenports
⭐Warrior Girl Unearthed 4 February



Nominees Read in 2023 - 10



Nominees Read in 2024

[Princesspint]

Starts January 2024
Ends: TBD

Categories:

Best Fiction

Best Mystery & Thriller

Best Historical Fiction

Best Fantasy

Best Romance

Best Romantasy

Best Science Fiction

Best Horror

Best Humor

Best Nonfiction

Best Memoir & Autobiography

Best History & Biography

Best Debut Novels

Best Young Adult Fiction

Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Checking in to see if everyone is off to a good start?

[Heather]

2023 Goodreads Choice
Books Read 2024 (an further...): __

Books read: 7


Categories
Best Fiction
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Best Historical Fiction
🏆
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Best Mystery & Thriller
🏆
‣ Nominee-Bright Young Women-1/1/24⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‣ Nominee-The Villa-1/10/24
‣ Nominee-The Coworker-5/20/24⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Best Romance
🏆-winner-Happy Place-4/2/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‣ Nominee-Love, Theoretically-9/30/24⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Best Romantasy
🏆
‣ A Soul of Ash and Blood-3/30/34⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Best Fantasy
🏆
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Best Science Fiction
🏆
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Best Horror
🏆
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Best YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi
🏆
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Best Young Adult Fiction
🏆
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Best Nonfiction
🏆
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Best Memoir & Autobiography
🏆
‣Nominee Pageboy-2/1/24

Best History & Biography
🏆
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Best Humor
🏆
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Books read before 2024:
-Nominee (Best Young Adult Fiction)

[Jenn]

I’m in

[Sandy Mckenzie]

How do I participate?

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Sandy Mckenzie wrote: "How do I participate?"

Pick a spot and track the books that you read from the categories.

[Maria]

Categories:

Best Fiction
Winner: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Nominee: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Best Mystery & Thriller

Best Historical Fiction
Winner: Weyward by Emilia Hart

Best Fantasy

Best Romance
Winner: Happy Place by Emily Henry
Nominee: Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

Best Romantasy
Winner: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Best Science Fiction

Best Horror

Best Humor

Best Nonfiction

Winner: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Best Memoir & Autobiography
Nominee: Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar

Best History & Biography

Best Debut Novels
Winner: Weyward by Emilia Hart

Best Young Adult Fiction
Winner: Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Nominee: The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

[Carrie]

Categories:

Best Fiction

Best Mystery & Thriller

Best Historical Fiction

Best Fantasy

Best Romance

Best Romantasy

Best Science Fiction

Best Horror
Mister Magic by Kiersten White; Date Read: 2/11/2024
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison; Date Read: 4/14/2024



Best Humor

Best Nonfiction

Best Memoir & Autobiography

Best History & Biography

Best Debut Novels

Best Young Adult Fiction

Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

[Kristina Simon]

2023 Goodreads Choice Awards
Duration: January 1, 2024 - no deadline

⚜️ Read in 2023 ⚜️
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune ★★★★☆


⚜️ Read in 2024 ⚜️


Best Fiction
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
Wellness by Nathan Hill


Best Mystery & Thriller
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Homecoming by Kate Morton
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
The Coworker by Freida McFadden
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney
The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins


Best Historical Fiction
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin
The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel


Best Fantasy
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
✔︎ Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree Read: 2/2/24 ★★★★★
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
The Will of the Many by James Islington
Atalanta by Jennifer Saint
Witch King by Martha Wells
VenCo by Cherie Dimaline


Best Romance
✔︎ Happy Place by Emily Henry ★★★★★ Read: 4/19/24
✔︎ Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez ★★★★★ Read: 4/22/24
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren


Best Romantasy
✔︎ Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Read: 3/1/24 ★★★★☆
Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer


Best Science Fiction
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
✔︎ System Collapse by Martha Wells Read: 3/23/24 ★★★★☆
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
The Marriage Act by John Marrs
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
The Deluge by Stephen Markley
The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins


Best Horror
Her Little Flowers by Shannon Morgan
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due


Best Humor
Congratulations, the Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas


Best Nonfiction
✔︎ Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop? by Chris van Tulleken ★★★★☆ Read: 4/23/24
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond


Best Memoir & Autobiography
✔︎ Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page ★★★☆☆ Read: 5/13/24
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger


Best History & Biography
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan


Best Debut Novels
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Maame by Jessica George
The September House by Carissa Orlando
Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
Banyan Moon by Thao Thai


Best Young Adult Fiction
The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Five Survive by Holly Jackson
Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott
Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick


Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

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[Amanda]

Best Fiction
Tom Lake--9/13

[Erica]

Jumping in late. Just found this...

[Jackie]

I'm late but would like to join.

Categories
Best Fiction
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer - 4/8/24
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

Best Mystery & Thriller
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman - 4/10/24
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto - 3/21/24
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai - 8/28/24
The Only One Left by Riley Sager - 8/31/24
Homecoming by Kate Morton
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger - 9/14/24
The Coworker by Freida McFadden - 9/6/24

Best Historical Fiction

Best Fantasy
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow - 6/10/24
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree - 8/17/24
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
Witch King by Martha Wells
The Fragile Threads of Power by Victoria Schwab

Best Romance
Happy Place by Emily Henry - 10/9/24

Best Romantasy

Best Science Fiction
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin - 8/10/24

Best Horror

Best Humor

Best Nonfiction
Best Memoir & Autobiography
Best History & Biography

Best Debut Novels
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs - 9/2/24

Best Young Adult Fiction
The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - 4/6/24
Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis - 8/7/24
Five Survive by Holly Jackson


Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

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[jonidyan]

Read the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards
January 1, 2024 TBD

Best Fiction
06/06/24
05/25/25

Best Historical Fiction
09/30/24
The Echo of Old Books
The House of Eve
02/19/25
04/10/25
05/29/25

Best Mystery & Thriller
06/02/25

Best Fantasy
12/12/24

Best Romance
05/22/23
11/21/24
12/24/24
01/17/25
Things We Hide from the Light
04/17/25
Final Offer
05/18/25
07/18/25
02/26/25
05/16/25
In the Likely Event
05/01/25
10/19/24
04/28/25

Best Romantasy
12/06/24
The Coven
Rule of the Aurora King

Best Memoir & Autobiography
07/01/23

Best Debut Novels
04/10/25
03/04/25
02/19/25

Best Young Adult Fiction
04/10/25
06/10/25
Reign
02/28/25
05/06/25

Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

A Curse for True Love
Foxglove

[Trisha]

WOOHOO!! I just have 1 book left to complete my original goal!

I hope everyone else is doing good!!

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

These seem to be slowing down. Unless something changes, this will be archived at the end of 2025.