Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

2020 Calendar


January

Winner - Debut Author and Romance: Red, White & Royal Blue

Winner – Picture Book: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers

Series Read: The Handmaid's Tale

Additional Nominee Read – Middle Grade: Tunnel of Bones


February

Winner - Fiction: The Testaments

Winner – Humour: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

Additional Nominee Read – Horror: Imaginary Friend

Additional Nominee Read – Graphic Novels & Comics: Book Love


March

Winner – Mystery & Thriller: The Silent Patient

Winner – Non Fiction: Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

Additional Nominee Read – YA Fantasy: A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Additional Nominee Read – Food & Cookbooks: Notes from a Young Black Chef


April

Winner – Historical Fiction: Daisy Jones & The Six

Winner – Science & Technology: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Additional Nominee Read – Debut Author: The Water Dancer

Additional Nominee Read – Picture Books: Hair Love


May

Winner - Fantasy: Ninth House

Additional Nominee Read - Romance: Things You Save in a Fire

Additional Nominee Read – Science & Technology: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men


June

Winner – Young Adult: Five Feet Apart

Additional Nominee Read – Fiction: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Additional Nominee Read – History & Biography: Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster


July

Winner - Science Fiction: Recursion

Additional Nominee Read – Mystery & Thriller: My Sister, the Serial Killer

Additional Nominee Read – Memoir & Autobiography: Know My Name: A Memoir


August

Winner - Poetry: Shout

Additional Nominee Read – Fantasy: The Starless Sea

Additional Nominee Read – Humour: Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!


September

Winner – Middle Grade: The Tyrant's Tomb

Additional Nominee Read – Historical Fiction: The Nickel Boys and City of Girls

Additional Nominee Read - Non Fiction: How to Be an Antiracist


October

Winner - Graphic Novels & Comics: Pumpkinheads

Winner - History & Biography: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Additional Nominee Read – Young Adult: The Fountains of Silence


November

Winner - Horror: The Institute

Winner – Food & Cookbooks: Antoni in the Kitchen

Additional Nominee Read - Science Fiction: Wanderers


December

Winner - YA Fantasy: The Wicked King

Winner – Memoir & Autobiography: Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

Additional Nominee Read – Poetry: A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

Just an Fyi - the science & tech winner, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, is currently on sale on Audible for $5.25 in the US.

I got my copy of on Libby/Overdrive.

Vicki wrote: "I got my copy of on Libby/Overdrive."

I read this book a couple of months ago. I really liked it. So different, but intriguing. Hope you like it ,too

I loved it! Very unique, funny and easy to read. I gave it 5 stars.

It's almost time for voting again! I get excited for Goodreads voting every year. :)

I just saw this in the librarians group:

It’s almost that time of year again! We are launching the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards on October 27, and voting will continue until Nov 30. Winners will be announced December 8.


I know there are always questions about eligibility too, so here is what they had to say about that:

2020 Eligibility: Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between November 16, 2019, and November 17, 2020, are eligible for the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards.

We limit eligibility to prevent books from being nominated in multiple award years. However, some works will have an eligible edition, but an original publication date outside the above date range:

* Books from other countries that have original pub dates before November 16, 2019, but a new U.S. edition in English between November 16, 2019, and November 17, 2020.

* Books from other countries that have original pub dates before November 16, 2019, but a work in translation published in English in the U.S. between November 16, 2019, and November 17, 2020.

They also mentioned that write-ins will be allowed during the first round again. Have your nominations ready!

I've opened up a thread dedicated to discussing the awards, which can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Thanks, Lynn.