Goodreads Choice Awards Reading Challenge
Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge
By: Brittany Shields
The 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards have been announced!
I am hereby starting a reading challenge to read a book from each category of the awards. (Well I might read all of the mystery/thrillers, let’s be real…) This challenge might take me all year as I may intersperse these books with others on my TBR or other challenges I start.
Cuz why would we stop at only one challenge?!
Join me?
I’ve listed each winner in bold and provided some of the runners’ up. A full list of the nominees and descriptions can be found at the link above.
I’m indicating the one I plan to read for each category with an * and am linking any books to reviews that I’ve written for them.
These books are on the list for a reason, right? Let’s see if they deserve their spot!
Fiction Winner: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Dial A for Aunties by Jess Q Sutanto
*Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
Mystery/Thriller Winner: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
*The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Billy Summers by Stephen King
The Push by Ashley Audrain
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
The Survivors by Jane Harper
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
Historical Fiction Winner: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
*The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
Fantasy Winner: A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Kline
The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
*The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Romance Winner: *People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
Science Fiction Winner: *Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Horror Winner: *The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Later by Stephen King
The Last House on Needles Street by Catriona Ward
Dowry of Blood by NT Gibson
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Humor Winner: Broken by Jenny Lawson
How Ya’ll Doing: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well-Lived by Leslie Jordan
*Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman
Please Don’t Sit on my Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Nonfiction Winner: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall
*Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova
Memoir/Biography Winner: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jonas
*Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson
History/Biography Winner: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
The Codebreaker by Walter Isaacson
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper
*The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell
Graphic Novels/Comics Winner: Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
*Dune: The Graphic Novel by Frank Herbert
Avatar: The Last Airbender by Faith Erin Hicks
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
ExtraOrdinary by V.E. Schwab
The Sad Ghost Club by Lize Meddings
In Love & Pajamas by Catana Comics
Poetry Winner: The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman, Oprah Winfrey
Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
Shine Your Icy Crown by Amanda Lovelace
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
I Hope This Finds You Well Poems by Kate Baer
*Where Hope Comes From by Nikita Gill
Debut Novel Winner: The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
*The Push by Ashley Audrain
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
YA Fiction Winner: *Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz
As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson
The Cousins by Karen M. McManus
YA Fantasy Winner: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
Chain of Iron: The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare
Lore by Alexandra Bracken
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
*House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland