2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Q1 - BEST IN SHOW
Duration: January 1 to March 31, 2021


This quarterly challenge honors the Literary Awards nomination, which came in third in our 2021 Yearly Themes poll.

One path to our quarterly theme, "Be the Change," might be to read the shortlisted books in your preferred award categories of the literary awards or book tournaments that you most enjoy.

For this challenge, choose a literary award or book tournament and read any of its shortlisted books (including yearly winners) from your chosen category for any year (multiple years is fine).
You may choose a maximum combined total of four literary awards and book tournaments, so choose your lists carefully.

Q: What if a prize has multiple categories?
A: Just choose one category to start reading from. Once you've read three books from your first category, feel free to continue reading in the same category or, as an option, start reading from a second category of the same literary award.

Q: Which books make up the "shortlist" for a Goodreads Choice Category?
A: When you click on a Goodreads Choice Awards category for a specific year, what you see are the 20 semifinalists. The shortlist refers only to the top 10 nominees that made it into the final round of voting, that is, the 10 books with the highest number of votes in that category.

How to Participate
Let the challenge leader know the following:
*Total number of books you plan to read
*The Award or Tournament (Name (up to four)
*The Award Category in each of your lists

Sample Sign-Up
Please sign me up for 16 books!
(1) Booker International/Fiction
(2) CWA Dagger Awards/International
*Little Siberia (2020 shortlist)
*Newcomer (2019 shortlist)
*The Invisible Guardian (2015 shortlist, wit)
*Dead Horsemeat (2007 shortlist, wit)
*The Three Evangelists (2006 winner, wit)
(3) Hugo Awards/Best Novel
(4) Goodreads Choice/Historical Fiction

If you are new to our group and/our group challenges, take a moment to check out the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread for more information on how our challenges are run.

oshizu will be leading this challenge and looks forward to seeing your book lists!

Can't wait to see what everyone will be reading!

To have your progress updated below, please post a comment that includes your original (sign-up) message number and your current progress, using the format below.
Example:
Update to msg 10: 2/5


STILL GROOMING (Finish one book to start prancing)
Bibliophile - 0 / 3
Blagica - 0 / 10
Gem - 0 / 3
Karin - 0 / 2
Kelly (#50) - 0 / 9
Leslie - 1 / 4
Lindsay - 0 / 9
Lisa - 0 / 6
Luci - 0 / 8
Manni - 0 / 24
Suzanne - 0 / 9
Viola - 0 / 4
Wendy - 0 / 5

PRANCING
Bobbi - 4 / 9
Brittany - 1 / 8
Cristina - 1 / 4
Gretchen - 4 / 5
Johanne - 1 / 12
Kelly (#44) - 1 / 4
Lynn - 6 / 9
Kiawi - 1 / 3
Nell - 4 / 6
Rebecca - 9 / 20
Regina - 7 / 8
Sara - 9 / 15
Veronica - 1 / 5

WINNERS' CIRCLE
Allie (#74) - 6 / 6
Alison (#57) - 7 / 7
Alyana (#6) - 16 / 12
Carmen (#12) - 46 / 45
Carol (#17) - 16 / 16
Carol (#65) - 10 / 10
Diane (#42) - 12 / 12
Janine (#58) - 7 / 6
Joey (#28) - 5 / 5
Margie (#56) - 5 / 5
Marleen #3) - 5 / 5
Megan (#5) - 5 / 5
Navya (#4) - 9 / 9
oshzu (#11) - 22 / 21
Sarah (#54) - 4 / 4
SarahKat (#8) - 9 / 9
Sheila (#158) - 22 / 15
Sunny (#7) - 8 / 8
TerryJane (#21) - 35 / 30
Ushashi (#18) - 5 / 5
Zeejane (#9) - 4 / 4

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Jan 31: Books read/pledged: 98/251 (39%)); Challenges done/started: 1/24 (4.2%)
Feb 28: Books read/pledged: 198/340 (62.6%); Challenges done/started: 6/34 (17.6%)
Mar 31: Books read/pledge: 307/347 (88.4%); Challenges done/started: 22/34 (61.8%)
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(Last updated on Apr 1st through msg 257)

Hi oshizu, sign me up for 5 books please!

Progress 5/5.

🏆 Hugo Awards/Best Novel link
✅ The Obelisk Gate winner 2017
✅ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell winner 2005
✅ Redshirts winner 2013
🏆 Nebula Awards/Best Novel link
✅ Gun, With Occasional Music shortlist 1995
✅ Spoonbenders shortlist 2018

Please sign me up for 9 books!

Progress: 9/9 (Completed 29 March)

International Booker Prize
1. Flights (Winner, 2018)
2. The Memory Police (Shortlist, 2020)
3. Celestial Bodies (Winner, 2019)

Hugo Awards/Best Novel
1. The City in the Middle of the Night (Shortlist, 2020)
2.The City & the City (Winner, 2010)
3.The Left Hand of Darkness (Winner, 1970)

Goodreads Choice Awards/Poetry
1. Dearly: New Poems (Winner, 2020)
2. A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (Shortlist, 2019)
3. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Shortlist, 2017)

Really looking forward to this :)

I’m joining in with 5!

GR Choice Historical Fiction:
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead - completed January 2021
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - completed January 2021
- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi - completed February 2021

RW Fiction:
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson - completed January 2021
- Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras - completed March 2021

5/5 - challenge completed!

I'm signing up for 8 :)

Hi Qshizu :) Sing me up please.

8/8 Completed!

Edgars (1965)/Best First Novel
📕**Friday the Rabbi Slept Late**
📕In the Last Analysis
📕the grave-maker's house

Agatha Christie Award (1994)/Best First Novel
📕**Do Unto Others**
📕One for the Money
📕Fool's Puzzle
📕Writers of the Purple Sage
📕Until Death

Hi oshizu! I'm in for 9!

3 from 3 categories:

9/9

Goodreads Choice 2020/Fantasy
1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
2. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
3. The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

Goodreads Choice 2020/Mystery&Thriller

1. One by One by Ruth Ware
2. Long Bright River by Liz Moore
3. The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

Goodreads Choice 2020/Fiction

1. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
2. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
3. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Howdy there! Welcome to all the new participants of Best in Show!
I notice that some of you (Sunny, SarahKat, and Zeejane) have specified years for your award categories.
Please note that, once you pick an award category, you can read the winners and shortlist of that award for any year.

For example, Zeejane has listed Edgar Awards/Best Novel so she can read winners and other shortlisted books in that category from any year.

Megan, as you led the Rock the Vote challenge, could you help out with defining the short list for a Goodreads Choice Award category? How many books would you count in the "finalist" category? Top 5 or Top 10?

BEST IN SHOW

I've gone ahead and listed all the books that I'd be interested in reading for this challenge. By no means do I plan (or consider trying) to read them all in one quarter.

Progress: 22/21 books

✅(1) Booker International/Fiction: 3/3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...
✔️1. The Vegetarian (2016 winner, wit)
✔️2. The Pine Islands (2019 shortlist, wit)
✔️3. Hurricane Season (2020 shortliist, wit)
*Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2019 shortlist, wit)

✅(2a) CWA Dagger Awards/International: 4/4
https://thecwa.co.uk/the-daggers/winn...
✔️1. The Three Evangelists (2006 winner, wit)
✔️2. Little Siberia (2020 shortlist)
✔️3. Newcomer (2019 shortlist)
✔️4. Dead Horsemeat (2007 shortlist, wit)
(2b) CWA Gold Dagger Awards: 2/3
✔️1. Resurrection Bay (2018 shortlist)
✔️2. The Dry ( 2017 winner))
*Blood From Stone (2008 winner)

✅(3) Macavity Awards/Best First Mystery Novel: 4/4
https://mysteryreaders.org/macavity-a...
✔️1. Blanche on the Lam (1993 winner)
✔️2. Summer of the Big Bachi (2005 shortlist)
✔️3 .The Unquiet Dead (2016 shortlist)
✔️4. IQ (2017 winner)
*Miracle Creek (2020 shortlist

✅(4a) Hugo Awards/Best Novel: 5/5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Aw...
✔️1. Death's End (2017 shortlist)
✔️2. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2011 winner)
✔️3. A Closed and Common Orbit (2017 shortlist)
✔️4.Record of a Spaceborn Few (2019 shortlist)
✔️5. Midnight Robber (2001 shortlist)
6. Trail of Lightning (2019 shortlist)
✅(4b) Hugo Awards for Best Novella: 4/4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Aw...
✔️1. Six-Gun Snow White (2014 shortlist)
✔️2. Beneath the Sugar Sky (2019 shortlist)
✔️3. To Be Taught, If Fortunate (2020 shortlist)
✔️4. In an Absent Dream (2020 shortlist)

My planning post

Hola oshizu!
Count me in please 😉

PROGRESS: 46/45

NOBEL PRIZE
❄️1984: The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert by Jaroslav Seifert✔(5🌟)
❄️1985: The Grass by Claude Simon✔(5🌟)
❄️1986: Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka✔(5🌟)
❄️1987: Watermark by Joseph Brodsky✔(5🌟)
❄️1988: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz✔(4🌟)
❄️1989: La colmena by Camilo José Cela✔(5🌟)
❄️1990: El Laberinto de la soledad by Octavio Paz✔(4🌟)
❄️1991: July's People by Nadine Gordimer✔(4🌟)
❄️1992: Omeros by Derek Walcott✔(5🌟)
❄️1993: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison✔(5🌟)
❄️1994: A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe✔(5🌟)
❄️1995: Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney✔(5🌟)
💝1996: Here by Wisława Szymborska✔(5🌟)
💝1997: Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo✔(5🌟)
💝1998: Ensayo sobre la ceguera by José Saramago✔(5🌟)
💝1999: El tambor de hojalata by Günter Grass✔(4🌟)
🐣2000: El libro de un hombre solo by Gao Xingjian✔(3🌟)
💝2001: Cartas entre un padre y un hijo: Los años de Oxford by V.S. Naipaul✔(3🌟)
💝2002: Sin destino by Imre Kertész✔(4🌟)
💝2003: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee✔(4🌟)
💝2004: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek✔(3🌟)
💝2005: The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter✔(3🌟)
💝2006: Snow by Orhan Pamuk✔(5🌟)
💝2007: The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing✔(4🌟)
🐣2008: Diego y Frida by J.M.G. Le Clézio✔(4🌟)
🐣2009: The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller✔(4🌟)
🐣2010: La Ciudad y Los Perros by Mario Vargas Llosa✔(4🌟)
🐣2011: The Deleted World by Tomas Tranströmer✔(4🌟)
🐣2012: Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan
🐣2013: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro✔(3🌟)
🐣2014: The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile – The Night Watch – Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano✔(4🌟)
🐣2015: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich✔(5🌟)
🐣2017: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro✔(3🌟)
🐣2018: Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk✔(4🌟)
🐣2019: A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke✔(5🌟)
🐣2020: Averno by Louise Glück✔(5🌟)

CERVANTES PRIZE
❄️1977: El siglo de las luces by Alejo Carpentier✔(5🌟)
❄️1979: Artificios by Jorge Luis Borges✔(5🌟)
❄️1980: El astillero by Juan Carlos Onetti✔(4🌟)
💝1984: Sobre héroes y tumbas by Ernesto Sabato✔(4🌟)
💝1985: Fragmentos de Apocalipsis by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester✔(5🌟)
💝1986: El tragaluz by Antonio Buero Vallejo✔(5🌟)
🐣1987: La muerte de Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes✔(5🌟)
🐣1989: Hijo de hombre by Augusto Roa Bastos✔(5🌟)
🐣1990: La invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares✔(4🌟)

❄️January 💝February 🐣March

BONUS:
NOBEL PRIZE:
❄1945: Antología poética by Gabriela Mistral✔ (4🌟)
🐣1946: Siddharta by Hermann Hesse✔(4🌟)

Camen! When do you sleep? Lol.
Awesome reading lists.

oshizu wrote: "Camen! When do you sleep? Lol.
Awesome reading lists."

When I can 😴, mostly at night ⛼ 😁

7/8 Completed

Booker Prize
✅1. The Driver's Seat—shortlisted 1970 (the Lost Man Booker)
✅2. Staying On--winner 1977

Walter Scott Prize
✅The Good People--shortlisted 2017


CWA Gold Dagger Award
✅1. Raven Black- winner 2006
✅2. The End of the Wasp Season- shortlisted 2011
✅3. A Place of Execution—shortlisted 1999


Women’s Prize for Fiction
✅1. Weather—shortlisted 2020

Count me in for 8 books, please!

0/8

GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS - FICTION
• American Dirt
• Nine Perfect Strangers
• Little Fires Everywhere
• Truly Madly Guilty

GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS - FANTASY
• Norse Mythology
• A Darker Shade of Magic
• Ninth House

PREMIO PLANETA
• Yo, Julia
• Terra Alta
• Todo esto te daré

CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER
• El guardián invisible
• Irène
• After the Fire
• The Dying Detective

I'd like to sign up for 4 awards with 4 books in each award category: (As usual, given the choice, I will choose some old & obscure books and one rather unusual award!)

16/16 books

> Newbery/Best Children's Literature
* 1 - 1922 Honor Book - The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen - finished 1/16/21
* 2 - 1922 Honor Book - The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum - finished 1/29/21
* 3 - 1922 Honor Book - The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs - finished 3/7/21
* 4 - 1922 Honor Book - Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall - finished 3/8/21

> National Book Award/Nonfiction
* 1 - 1936 winner - (Most Original Book) - The Country Kitchen by Della Lutes - finished 3/11/21
* 2 - 1952 winner - The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson - finished 3/16/21
* 3 - 1964 runner up - Change, Hope and the Bomb by David E. Lilienthal - finished 3/15/21
* 4 - 1965 runner up - We Are Not Alone by Walter Sullivan - finished 3/17/21

> Pulitzer Prize/Letters, Drama, and Music: History
* 1 - 2009 winner - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed - On a personal note, the author is a woman from my hometown and we went to the same schools. (The schools in our town have always been excellent.) Both of our mothers were teachers, who taught across the hall from each other in high school. I've been wanting to read this book, and this challenge gave me the perfect incentive to do it! - finished 1/3/21
* 2 - 2006 winner - Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky - finished 3/10/21
* 3 - 1927 winner - Pinckney's Treaty; America's Advantage From Europe's Distress, 1783 1800 by Samuel Flagg Bemis - finished 3/15/21
* 4 - 1952 winner - The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People by Oscar Handlin - finished 3/18/21

> Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year
* 1 - 2005 winner - People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves To Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It by Gary Leon Hill - finished 1/8/21
* 2 - 1986 winner - Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality: Reading from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity by Glenn C. Ellenbogen - finished 3/9/21
* 3 - 1980 winner - The Joy of Chickens by Dennis Nolan - finished 3/1/21
* 4 - 2012 winner - Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop: And Other Practical Advice in Our Campaign Against the Fairy Kingdom by Reginald Bakeley - finished 1/31/21

I will join for 5.

Progress: 5/5 Completed

National Book Award for Fiction
>Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2015 Shortlisted)

Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction
> Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng(2017 - Winner)
> Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2017 - Nominee)
> The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (2020 - Winner)

Women'd Prize for Fiction
> Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014 - Nominee)

I'm in for 20, but I haven't decided which awards to read from yet.

Progress: 10/20

Newberry Award
1. My Side of the Mountain

Goodreads Choice
fiction
2. Every Note Played (2018)
5. Beartown (2017)
6. Dear Edward (2020)
8. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (2018)
10. Anxious People (2020)

fantasy
9. The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020)

National Book Award
Fiction
3. The Women of Brewster Place (1983)

Alex Awards
4. How Long 'til Black Future Month? (2019)
7. The Name of the Wind (2008)

A warm welcome to Regina, Luci, Carol, Ushashi, and Rebecca!
You have all been added to Ze List.

Carol, your books in the Diagram Prize/Oddest Book Title list make me smile.

BEST IN SHOW - Q1 Quarterly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2021
Progress: 14/12 ➡ 35/30 -- COMPLETE

Newbery Medal or Honor (17)
🏆 Bridge to Terabithia
🏆 Hattie Big Sky
🏆 Hatchet
🏆 Shiloh
🏆 Holes
🏆 Hoot
🏆 Sounder
🏆 Wringer
🏆 Homesick
🏆 Dogsong
🏆 Rascal
🏆 Whittington
🏆 Paperboy
🏆 Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
🏆 Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
🏆 Rules
🏆 Anpao

Goodreads Choice/Historical Fiction (12)
🏆 The Nightingale (2015, 1st)
🏆 The Painted Girls (2013, 7th)
🏆 A Gentleman in Moscow (2016, 4th)
🏆 Transcription (2018, 8th)
🏆 Station Eleven (2014 Fiction, 9th)
🏆 One by One (2020 Mystery & Thriller, 8th)
🏆 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020 YA Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2nd)
🏆 Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (2012 Humor, 1st)
🏆 Elevation (2018 Horror, 1st)
🏆 Educated (2018 Memoir & Autobiography, 1st)
🏆 Recursion (2019 Science Fiction, 1st)
🏆 Bunny (2019 Horror, 7th)

Agatha Award/Nonfiction (3)
🏆 American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
🏆 The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
🏆 Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Macavity/Best First Mystery Novel (3)
🏆 The Scent of Rain and Lightning
🏆 Death of a Cozy Writer
🏆 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I'm in for 5 books.

HWA Crown Award Books
1.) The King’s Evil
2.) The Doll Factory
3.) The Darker Arts
4.) American Spy
5.) Smoke and Ashes

GOAL MET!

Welcome to Best in Show, TerryJane and Gretchen!


TerryJane wrote: "BEST IN SHOW - Q1 Quarterly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2021
Progress: 0/12

I may change things up depending on what you and Megan figure out on the Goodreads Choice question. Also, I may well end up with more than 12 if I expand to other categories and/or if all GR Choice winners and nominees count for this challenge. If I decide to change my goal, I'll let you know."

Regarding the Goodreads Choice "shortlist" question, as the creator of this quarterly challenge, I'm going to go ahead and define the Goodreads Choice Award "shortlist" as the five 10 books in the final round of voting for that category.
I don't feel that's too limiting since we are allowed to intermix winners/shortlisted books from any year.

I'll revise the challenge rules now to that effect.

Okay, since I have two here already, I would like to start with this, BUT even though the second on won other awards, it is only listed as a nominee for this one. It's not the biggest for either, but I was looking for Canadian fiction when I got these.

PS--this is tentative up until Jan 1, but I wanted to sign up now and think about it as other books come from the library when I pick them up this week.

Scotiabank Giller Prize
Half Blood Blues (winner)

LIST TBD since one of these didn't get shortlisted and while each won at least one award and was nominated for more, this is the only one that is the same.
Someone Knows My Name aka The Book of Negroes (nominee)

Welcome to Best in Show, Karin!
And, yes, nominees are fine as long as they're on the award's short list. :D

oshizu, I've changed my goal from 9 to 6 with the Goodreads Choice shortlist stipulation.

Q1 - BEST IN SHOW
Duration: January 1 to March 31, 2021

I have absolutely no idea what award I will select yet. I will have to research...

I will commit to reading a total of 6 books for this challenge.

6/6 as of February 21
I'll increase my goal to 9!
9/9 as of March 17
DONE!!

ALA Alex Award
1. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
2007
January 5--5/5 stars
2. *Educated by Tara Westover 2019
3. *The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 2003
4. *The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 2004
5. *The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 2020
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher 2020
Dominicana by Angie Cruz 2020
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 2020
The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark 2019
The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir 2019
The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales 2017
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach 2017
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2016
Girl at War by Sara Nović 2016
The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell 2014
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 2013
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok 2011
The Radleys by Matt Haig 2011
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba 2010
The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch 2010
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti 2009
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig 2007
?Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres 2006
?Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson 2005
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 2004
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka2003
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich 2002
Plainsong by Kent Haruf 2000

Goodreads Choice Awards--Young Adult Fiction DONE!
1. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
2015 Winner
January 11--5/5 stars
2. *You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
2020 Nominee #5
February 21--5/5 stars
3. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
2013 Nominee #2
March 7--5/5 stars
4. *The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys 2019 Top Ten
Felix Ever After 2020
Clap When You Land 2020
One of Us Is Next 2020
Five Feet Apart 2019 Winner
With the Fire on High

Goodreads Choice Awards--Fiction
1. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
2020 Nominee (#9)
January 18--5/5 stars
2. Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
2015 Nominee #7
January 31--5/5 stars
3. *Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
2017 Nominee #3
February 17--5/5 stars
4. *Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
2018 Nominee #10
February 28--5/5 stars
5. *Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
2020 Nominee (#4)
6. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
2020 Nominee #2
7. *Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
2020 Nominee #10

Goodreads Choice Awards--Mystery & Thriller
1. The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham
2014 Nominee #3
January 18--5/5 stars
2. *The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad #5) by Tana French
2014 Nominee #7
March 17--5/5 stars
3. *Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
2019 Nominee #9
4. *The Lost Man by Jane Harper
2019 Nominee #4
5. *Force of Nature by Jane Harper
2018 Nominee #9
6. *The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling)
2013 Nominee #2
7. The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
2019 Nominee #3
8. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
2018 Nominee #7
9. The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton with James Patterson
2018 Nominee #6

Possibilities:
Goodreads Choice Awards: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Nonfiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
Pulitzer Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Award for Nonfiction

Hello

I will read 5 Hugo shortlisted novellas

Lynn and Joey
Welcome to Best in Show!

SarahKat
Sorry for the trouble, but would you check your book selection to see if they fall within the top 10 (see the post below) then post your challenge goal again?

Important Announcement

The Goodreads Choice Awards "shortlist" remains defined as those books that appeared in the final round of voting.
However, after some Googlefu, I discovered that I was wrong about how the number of books involved in the final round.
For the Goodreads Choice Awards, the shortlist refers to the top 10 nominees based on vote count (note that the entire list of 20 nominees represents the seminfinalists).

oshizu wrote: "Sorry for the trouble, but would you check your book selection to see if they fall within the top 10 (see the post below) then post your challenge goal again"

They are! Please change my goal back to 9. Sorry and thank you for the change!

SarahKat wrote: "oshizu wrote: "Sorry for the trouble, but would you check your book selection to see if they fall within the top 10 (see the post below) then post your challenge goal again"

They are! Please change my goal back to 9. Sorry and thank you for the change!"
Yay!
And you don't need to apologize. It's my fault for assuming that everyone shared the same notion of "shortlist." And I also initially got the number of books on the shortlist wrong. *sighs

oshizu wrote: "Important Announcement

The Goodreads Choice Awards "shortlist" remains defined as those books that appeared in the final round of voting.
However, after some Googlefu, I discovered that I was wron..."

Hi oshizu, this might be a lame question but I wanted to make sure if I understand this correctly. The shortlist on the GR Choice Awards are the first 10 entries with the most number of votes right? Attached below is the shortlisted books for GR Choice Awards 2017 Mystery and Thriller category, are these the top 10?

Alyana Pearl wrote: ".Hi oshizu, this might be a lame question but I wanted to make sure if I understand this correctly. The shortlist on the GR Choice Awards are the first 10 entries with the most number of votes right? Attached below is the shortlisted books for GR Choice Awards 2017 Mystery and Thriller category, are these the top 10?"

Alyana,
Yes, that is perfectly correct!
And you can mix and match shortlisted books from the same category for different years.
So I you don't find enough books within the 2017 shortlist, you are free to read books from the Mystery & Thriller shortlist from other years.
And no question is too lame!

oshizu wrote: "Alyana Pearl wrote: ".Hi oshizu, this might be a lame question but I wanted to make sure if I understand this correctly. The shortlist on the GR Choice Awards are the first 10 entries with the most..."

Nice! I'm on the right track then. Thank you! :)

oshizu wrote: "Welcome to Best in Show, Karin!
And, yes, nominees are fine as long as they're on the award's short list. :D"

Thanks--I may rethink which award as both of these books were on multiple lists, and I may just include one of them. First I'll wait for my other books to arrive.

Karin
You're on Ze List now with a challenge goal of 0/TBD.
After your books have arrived and you've decided on a challenge goal (which you are, of course, free to adjust later), please post again to let me know.
Thanks!

oshizu wrote: "Alyana Pearl wrote: ".Hi oshizu, this might be a lame question but I wanted to make sure if I understand this correctly. The shortlist on the GR Choice Awards are the first 10 entries with the most..."

I have updated my original post - message #6 with my possible reads for the challenge. Thank you.

Alyana, you only need to post an update comment:
(1) to request a revision of your challenge goal;
(2) to update your current challenge progress;
(3) to report a typo in your name or progress or a faulty link; or
(4) to let us know that you've changed your Goodreads user name.

Let's keep things simple. Thanks!

oshizu wrote: "Alyana, you only need to post an update comment:
(1) to request a revision of your challenge goal;
(2) to update your current challenge progress;
(3) to report a typo in your name or progress or ..."

Noted.

Hello Oshizu! I am excited about starting the new year reading the best of the best! Please count me in for 12.

Goal: 12/12

🏆 International Booker Prize
✅ The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa (2020 shortlist)
✅ The Vegetarian, Han Kang (2016 winner)
✅ Celestial Bodies, Jokha Alharthi (2019 winner)

🏆 Pulitzer Prize, Fiction
✅ The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (2020 winner)
✅ The Shipping News, Annie Proulx (1994 winner)

🏆 Hugo Awards, Best Novel
✅ The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (2011 shortlist)
✅ The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (2019 winner)
✅ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke (2005 winner)

🏆 Edgar Awards, Best Novel
✅ The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino (2012 shortlist)
✅ Faithful Place, Tana French (2011 shortlist)
✅ Down the River Unto the Sea, Walter Mosley (2019 winner)
✅ Before She Was Helen, Caroline B. Cooney (2021 shortlist)

oshizu - I'm in for 6 books.

Best in Show
2021 Quarterly Challenge

Goal: 6 books

Agatha Award Best Novel
1. The Saddlemaker's Wife by Earlene Fowler 1/2/21 - 2006
2. ⭐ Mardi Gras Murder by Ellen Byron 2/28/21 - 2018
3 Death Dances to a Reggae Beat by Kate Grilley 5/04/21 - 2000



Goodreads Choice Award Romance
1. Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert 2/17/21 - 2020
2
3

Welcome to Best in Show, Diane and Nell!

Diane, I know you are close to your canine companion.
Have you already seen that film Best in Show from 2000?

Please sign me up for 4 books! I am going to read GR choice shortlisted/winners from the fantasy category. (going back to 2011). I noticed that years ago fantasy and paranormal fantasy were different categories that have now been combined into one category, fantasy. So I guess my selections will come from both if they are from older years.

oshizu wrote: "Welcome to Best in Show, Diane and Nell!

Diane, I know you are close to your canine companion.
Have you already seen that film Best in Show from 2000?"

I have seen it Oshizu! It is one of my favorite films of all time, and I thought of it when I signed up for the challenge. If I could fit a dog into every book in the category, I would!

Diane wrote: "oshizu wrote: "I have seen it Oshizu! It is one of my favorite films of all time, and I thought of it when I signed up for the challenge. If I could fit a dog into every book in the category, I would!"

same. 😂

Hey! Count me in for 24 books :)

Q1 - Best In Show
Duration: January 1 to March 31, 2021

Progress: 0/24

Possibilities:

National Book Award - Fiction
The Other Americans (2019)
A Lucky Man (2018)
Florida (2019)
Interior Chinatown (2020)
Her Body and Other Parties (2017)
Leave the World Behind (2020)

International booker prize
The Memory Police (2020)
Hurricane Season (2020)
The Discomfort of Evening (2020)
The Shape of the Ruins (2019)
A Horse Walks into a Bar (2017)
The Unseen (2017)

Hugo Award
Spinning Silver (2019)
Middlegame (2020)
Trail of Lightning (2019)
The Light Brigade (2020)

Goodreads - Fiction
Big Summer (2020)
Dear Edward (2020)
The Glass Hotel (2020)
Such a Fun Age (2020)
American Dirt (2020)
Anxious People (2020)
The Midnight Library (2020)
Normal People (2019)
Ask Again, Yes (2019)
Where the Forest Meets the Stars (2019)
Nine Perfect Strangers (2018)
Still Me (2018)
All We Ever Wanted (2018)
An American Marriage (2018)
Us Against You (2018)
Nine Perfect Strangers (2018)

Sign me up for 20(15)!

9/15 INCOMPLETE

Goodreads Choice Award {Categories- Fantasy, YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Mystery, and Romance}
Fantasy

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Rating ★★★)

Mystery

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (Rating ★★★★)

The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben (Rating ★★★★)

One by One by Ruth Ware (Rating ★)

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole (Rating ★★★★★)

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks (Rating ★★)

Romance

The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez (Rating ★★★★)

One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London (Rating ★★★)

Beach Read by Emily Henry (Rating ★★★★)

Q1: Best in Show
Duration: January 1, 2021 - March 31, 2021
Goal: 0/9

2019 Rita Award Winners
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2.
3.

2020 Goodreads/Romance

1. From Blood and Ash
2. In Five Years
3. The Happy Ever After Playlist

2020 Goodreads/YA Fiction

1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
2. You Should See Me in a Crown
3. Clap When You Land

Hi! Please count me in for nine books:

Goodreads Choice Awards/Thriller
1.Long Bright River
2. Unspeakable Things
3. The Wives

Goodreads Choice Awards/YA
1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
2. Majesty
3. Turtles All the Way Down

Goodreads Choice Awards/Romance
1. You Deserve Each Other
2. Red, White & Royal Blue
3. Regretting You

A big welcome to Kelly (#44), Manni, Sara, Lindsay, and Kelly (#50).
I've added all of you to my spreadsheet and will update Ze List soon.