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2023 Year-long challenge Starts Jan 2023
Ends: This challenge is set to end at the end of the 2025

Let's celebrate all the nominees & winners of the 2022 Goodreads Awards by reading books that were nominated and/or won. How many can you read in 2023? Set your own personal goal for this challenge.


Categories
Best Fiction
Best Mystery & Thriller
Best Historical Fiction
Best Fantasy
Best Romance
Best Science Fiction
Best Horror
Best Humor
Best Nonfiction
Best Memoir & Autobiography
Best History & Biography
Best Graphic Novels & Comics
Best Poetry
Best Debut Novels
Best Young Adult Fiction
Best Young Adult Fantasy
Best Middle Grade & Childrens's

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
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Robin Saturndoo (msg 17)
Robin Saturndoo (msg 18)
Robin Saturndoo (msg 19)
Robin Saturndoo (msg 20)
Robin Saturndoo (message 21)
Robin Saturndoo (message 22)
Robin Saturndoo (message 23)
Michelle's Empty Nest
Ashley
Kaleen
Shan A
Alyana
Kat
Caraina
JenniferJ
Karla
Kirstie
Lilli Gilliam
Christene Paula
Catsalive
Donna

In! TBR TBD
Categories
Best Fiction
Best Mystery & Thriller
Best Historical Fiction
Best Fantasy
Best Romance
Best Science Fiction
Best Horror
Best Humor
Best Nonfiction
Best Memoir & Autobiography
Best History & Biography
Best Graphic Novels & Comics
Best Poetry
Best Debut Novels
Best Young Adult Fiction
Best Young Adult Fantasy
Best Middle Grade & Childrens's

I'm in : )

Looking forward to this!

2022 Goodreads Choice

🔸Books Read in 2023: 31


🔹Books Read in 2024: 14


Categories
Best Fiction:
🏆Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Read: 28-Jun-2023
🔸The Hotel Nantucket, Read: 4-Jan-2023
🔸Notes on an Execution, Read: 4-Jan-2023
🔸Nightcrawling, Read: 15-Jan-2023
🔸This Time Tomorrow, Read: 14-Apr-2023
🔸Our Missing Hearts, Read: 9-Jun-2023
🔸Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Read: 5-Dec-2023
🔹Remarkably Bright Creatures, Read: 23-Jan-2024
🔹Demon Copperhead, Read: 6-Mar-2024
🔹The Winners, Read: 2-Apr-2024
🔹Mad Honey, Read: 16-Apr-2024
🔹Other Birds, Read: 16-Oct-2024
🔹How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Read: 20-Nov-2024

Best Mystery & Thriller
🏆The Maid, Read: 1-Mar-2023
🔸The Night Shift, Read: 16-Feb-2023
🔸The Violin Conspiracy, Read: 19-Nov-2023
🔹Daisy Darker, Read: 1-Mar-2024
🔹Killers of a Certain Age, Read: 25-Mar-2024
🔹The It Girl, Read: 26-Oct-2024

Best Historical Fiction
🏆Carrie Soto Is Back, Read: 5-Jul-2023
🔸The Last House on the Street, Read: 9-Jan-2023
🔸Violeta, Read: 25-Oct-2023

Best Fantasy
🏆House of Sky and Breath, Read: 1-Oct-2023
🔸Nettle & Bone, Read: 7-Jan-2023
🔸The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Read: 15-May-2023
🔹Kaikeyi, Read: 19-Jan-2024

Best Romance
🔸Love on the Brain, Read: 12-Apr-2023
🔸It Starts with Us, Read: 11-Sep-2023
🔸The Bodyguard, Read: 3-Oct-2023
🔹Part of Your World, Read: 1-Feb-2024
🔹Things We Never Got Over, Read: 23-Feb-2024
🔹Terms and Conditions, Read: 21-May-2024

Best Science Fiction
🏆Sea of Tranquility, Read: 12-Apr-2023
🔸The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Read: 17-May-2023

Best Horror:
🔸Such Sharp Teeth, Read: 5-Jan-2023

Best Humor
Best Nonfiction

Best Memoir & Autobiography
🏆I'm Glad My Mom Died, Read: 10-Jan-2023
🔸In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, Read: 5-Jul-2023
🔸Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life, Read: 26-Oct-2023

Best History & Biography
🔸And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, Read: 1-Mar-2023

Best Debut Novels
🏆Lessons in Chemistry, Read: 12-Jan-2023

Best Young Adult Fiction
🔸The Weight of Blood, Read: 25-Mar-2023
🔸You'll Be the Death of Me, Read: 28-Mar-2023
🔸I Kissed Shara Wheeler, Read: 23-May-2023
🔹All My Rage, Read: 25-Jul-2024

Best Young Adult Fantasy
🔸A Magic Steeped in Poison, Read: 24-Jul-2023

Completed pre-2023:

Completed in 2022:

Best Fiction: 2/20
Best Mystery & Thriller : 3/20
Best Historical Fiction: 0/20
Best Fantasy: 2/20
Best Romance: 1/20
Best Science Fiction: 1/20
Best Horror: 1/20
Best Humor: 0/20
Best Nonfiction: 1/20
Best Memoir & Autobiography: 1/20
Best History & Biography: 0/20
Best Debut Novels: 0/20
Best Young Adult Fiction: 0/20
Best Young Adult Fantasy: 0/20

Completed in 2023:

Read the Goodreads Choice Awards
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
Start: January 1, 2023
End: ??
Progress: 13

Books read prior to challenge (if any):

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

Best Fiction
1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ~ 05/19

Best Mystery & Thriller
1. The Paris Apartment ~ 01/27/23
2. Wrong Place Wrong Time ~ 09/15/23
Best Historical Fiction
1. Lessons in Chemistry ~ 04/26/23
Best Fantasy
1. The Stardust Thief ~ 09/13/23
2. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches ~ 01/15/24
Best Romance
1. Love on the Brain ~ 05/07/23
2. Twisted Hate ~ 05/25/23
3. Part of Your World ~ 07/08/23
4. Funny You Should Ask ~ 07/09/23
5. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty ~ 08/25/23
6. Hook, Line, and Sinker ~ 01/20/24
7. Things We Never Got Over ~ 02/27/24
Best Science Fiction ??
Best Horror
Best Humor
Best Nonfiction
Best Memoir & Autobiography
1. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing ~ 03/13/23

Best History & Biography ??
Best Poetry
Best Debut Novels
Best Young Adult Fiction
Best Young Adult Fantasy
Best Middle Grade & Children's

Progress: 14/14

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

Best Fiction
1. The Hotel Nantucket - 04/03 ★★★★★
2, Mad Honey - 01/27 ★★★★☆
3. This Time Tomorrow - 03/17 ★★★★☆

Horror
1. Hidden Pictures - 01/08 ★★★★★

Best Mystery & Thriller
1. A Flicker in the Dark - 01/31 ★★★★★
2. Killers of a Certain Age - 05/09 ★★★☆☆
3. Wrong Place Wrong Time - 03/26 ★★★☆☆

Best Romance
1. It Starts with Us - 01/17 ★★★★★
2. Things We Never Got Over - 02/09 ★★★★★

Best Humor
1. The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There - 02/14 ★★★★☆

Best Memoir & Autobiography
1. I'm Glad My Mom Died - 01/10 ★★★★☆
2. We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story - 02/22 ★★★★★

Best Young Adult Fiction
1. Nothing More to Tell - 05/30 ★★★★☆

Best Debut Novel
1. Lessons in Chemistry - 03/23 ★★★★☆

📚COMPLETED📚

I’m in

15 on my list

I’ll put them here as I read them

Finished
by Freida McFadden 4*

2022 Goodreads Choice Awards
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2023

Completed pre-2023:


Best Fiction

Best Mystery & Thriller

Best Historical Fiction
1. Carrie Soto Is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid 1/15/23

Best Fantasy

Best Romance

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

1/48

Categories
Best Fiction
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Other Birds
Notes on an Execution
Mad Honey
Olga Dies Dreaming


Best Mystery & Thriller
The Book of Cold Cases
Killers of a Certain Age
The It Girl
Daisy Darker
The Housemaid
The Golden Couple
Things We Do in the Dark
Jackal
The Overnight Guest
The Family Game


Best Historical Fiction
Lessons in Chemistry
Black Cake
The Magnolia Palace
Peach Blossom Spring
Hester

Best Fantasy
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
The Atlas Six
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Legends & Lattes
Elektra
Kaikeyi
The Book Eaters
Nettle & Bone


Best Romance
Book Lovers
Love on the Brain
Delilah Green Doesn't Care
The Bodyguard
The Wedding Crasher
Dating Dr. Dil

Best Science Fiction
Upgrade

Best Horror
Hidden Pictures
The Hacienda
House of Hunger
Manhunt
The Violence
Small Angels
Such Sharp Teeth
The Devil Takes You Home
White Horse
The Fervor


Best Debut Novels
A Flicker in the Dark -- Jan 18


Best Young Adult Fiction
The Weight of Blood

Best Young Adult Fantasy
Foul Lady Fortune



Read in 2022
Nightcrawling
The Maid
The Paris Apartment
The Night Shift
The Children on the Hill
Just Like Mother
Sundial

2022 GoodReads Choice Awards

Best Fiction
True Biz by Sara Nović

Best Mystery & Thriller
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

Best Historical Fiction
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Violeta by Isabel Allende
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

Best Fantasy
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution published in August 23rd 2022
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Best Romance
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas
Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling
Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma
The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa

Best Science Fiction
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

Best Horror
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates
Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

Best Humor
The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There by Jenna Fischer

Best Nonfiction

Best Memoir & Autobiography
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

Best History & Biography
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey

Best Graphic Novels & Comics
Best Poetry

Best Debut Novels
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

Best Young Adult Fiction
Loveless by Alice Oseman
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott

Best Young Adult Fantasy
Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

Best Middle Grade & Childrens's
I Am Able to Shine by Korey Watari

Categories

1. Best Fiction
2. Mystery & Thriller
3. Best Historical Fiction
4. Best Fantasy
5. Best Romance
6. Best Science Fiction
7. Best Horror
8. Best Humor
9. Best Nonfiction
10. Best Memoir & Autobiography
11. Best History & Biography
12. Best Graphic Novels & Comics
13. Best Poetry
14. Best Debut Novels
15. Best Young Adult Fiction
16. Best Young Adult Fantasy
17. Best Middle Grade & Childrens's

Best Fiction
1.Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
2.Wish You Were Here
3.The Winners
4. Remarkably Bright Creatures
5.The Hotel Nantucket
6. Our Missing Hearts
7. Cleopatra and Frankenstein
8. To Paradise
9. Other Birds
10. Notes on an Execution
11. Mad Honey
12. Olga Dies Dreaming
13. This Time Tomorrow
14. Demon Copperhead
15. True Biz
16. Nightcrawling
17. Lucy by the Sea
18. Honor
19. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
20. Now Is Not the Time to Panic


Mystery/Thriller
1. The Maid
✔2. The Paris Apartment
3. The Bullet That Missed
4. A Flicker in the Dark
✔5. The Book of Cold Cases-- ⭐⭐⭐
6. Wrong Place Wrong Time
7. Killers of a Certain Age
8. The It Girl
9. All Good People Here
✔10. Daisy Darker
11. The Housemaid
12. The Golden Couple
13. Things We Do in the Dark
14. The Violin Conspiracy
15. The Family Remains
16. The Night Shift
17. Jackal
18. The Overnight Guest
19. The Family Game
20. More Than You'll Ever Know


Best Historical Fiction
1. Carrie Soto Is Back
2. Lessons in Chemistry
3. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
4. The Diamond Eye
5. Black Cake
6. Violeta
7. The Marriage Portrait
✔8. Take My Hand-- ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔9. The Book Woman's Daughter
10. Young Mungo
11. The Magnolia Palace
✔12. The Last House on the Street ⭐⭐⭐⭐
13. Memphis
✔14. Hester--⭐⭐⭐
15. The Last Rose of Shanghai
16. Shrines of Gaiety
17. Trust
18. The Passenger
19. Peach Blossom Spring
20. Four Treasures of the Sky

Best Fantasy
1. House of Sky and Breath
2. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
3. Fairy Tale
4. The Atlas Six
5. The War of Two Queens
6. Daughter of the Moon Goddess
✔7. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
✔8. Legends & Lattes
9. The Lost Metal
10. The Golden Enclaves
11. Elektra
12. Kaikeyi
13. The Book Eaters
14. When Women Were Dragons
15. Nettle & Bone
16. The World We Make
17. A River Enchanted
18. Thistlefoot
19. The Stardust Thief
20. Ordinary Monsters


Best Romance
1. Book Lovers
2. Reminders of Him
3. It Starts with Us
4. Love on the Brain
5. Every Summer After
6. Things We Never Got Over
✔7. Delilah Green Doesn't Care
8. Twisted Hate
9. Terms and Conditions
10. Hook, Line, and Sinker
11. Part of Your World
12. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
13. Electric Idol
14. The Bodyguard
15. The American Roommate Experiment
16. Funny You Should Ask
17. Thank You for Listening
18. The Kiss Curse
19. Dating Dr. Dil
20. The Wedding Crasher



Best Science Fiction
1. Sea of Tranquility
✔2. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
3. Nona the Ninth
4. How High We Go in the Dark
5. Upgrade
6. The Measure
7. Leviathan Falls
8. The Kaiju Preservation Society
9. Dead Silence
10. Hunt the Stars
11. Ocean's Echo
12. Station Eternity
13. Leech
14. Self-Portrait with Nothing
15. Lost in Time
16. Atomic Anna
17. The Genesis of Misery
18. Mickey7
19. Sleepwalk
20. Primitives

Best Horror
1. Hidden Pictures
✔2. The Hacienda
3. What Moves the Dead
4. Gwendy's Final Task
5. Juniper & Thorn
6. Our Wives Under the Sea
7. The Children on the Hill
8. House of Hunger
9. The Violence
10. Just Like Mother
11. Manhunt
12. Gallows Hill
13. Small Angels
14. We Spread
15. Such Sharp Teeth
16. Sundial
17. The Devil Takes You Home
18. White Horse
19. The Cherry Robbers
20. The Fervor


Best Humor
1. The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There
2. Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
3. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
4. Ten Steps to Nanette
5. Idiots: Marriage, Motherhood, Milk & Mistakes
6. Happy-Go-Lucky
7. The Nineties
8. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
9. All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
10. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
11. Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams
12. I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
13. Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
14. Start Without Me
15. I'm More Dateable than a Plate of Refried Beans: And Other Romantic Observations
16. Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, Or Is It Just Me?
17. The World's Worst Assistant
18. The World Deserves My Children
19. Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy
20. In On the Joke: The Original Queens of Standup Comedy



Best Nonfiction
1. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
2. Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
3. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
4. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
5. These Precious Days: Essays
6. All the Living and the Dead
7. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
8. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
9. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
10. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
11. The Trayvon Generation
12. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
13. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
14. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
15. The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
16. Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
17. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again
18. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
19. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
20. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Best Memoir & Autobiography
1. I'm Glad My Mom DiedFriends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
2. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
3. Finding Me
4. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
5. We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
6. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
7. Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
8. Solito: A Memoir
9. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
10. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
11. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
12. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
13. Token Black Girl: A Memoir
14. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
15. Lost & Found: A Memoir
16. Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir
17. Uncultured: A Memoir
18. The Man Who Could Move Clouds
19. Stay True
20. Easy Beauty


Best History & Biography
1. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
2. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
3. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
4. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
5. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
6. Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
7. Anna: The Biography
8. Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons
9. Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
10. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
11. Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
12. The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
13. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
14. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
15. Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
16. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
17. Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America
18. Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
19. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
20. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners


Best Graphic Novels & Comics
1. Heartstopper: Volume Four
2. Lore Olympus: Volume Two
3. Demon in the Wood
4. Oddball
5. Saga, Volume 10
6. Wash Day Diaries
7. Everything Is OK
✔8. Huda F Are You?-- 4/2/22⭐⭐⭐
9. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
10. Fangirl, Vol. 2: The Manga
✔11. Crumbs-- 2/4/23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
12. Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 1
13. A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun
14. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
15. Chef's Kiss
16. Squire
17. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure
18. It Won't Always Be Like This
19. Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American
20. Thieves

Best Poetry
1. Call Us What We Carry
2. Time Is a Mother
3. Unlock Your Storybook Heart
4. Serenity: Poems
5. On Sun Swallowing
6. And Yet: Poems
7. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on
8. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
9. Woman Without Shame: Poems
10. Musical Tables: Poems
11. Poukahangatus: Poems
12. The Hurting Kind: Poems
13. The Shift: Poetry for a New Perspective
14. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
15. Alive At The End Of The World
16. Girls That Never Die: Poems
17. Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse
18. Normal Distance
19. All the Flowers Kneeling
20. Golden Ax


Best Debut Novels
1. Lessons in Chemistry
2. Daughter of the Moon Goddess
3. Every Summer After
4. The Maid
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures
6. A Flicker in the Dark
7. Black Cake
8. All Good People Here
9. Kaikeyi
10. Cleopatra and Frankenstein
✔11. The Hacienda
12. How High We Go in the Dark
13. Olga Dies Dreaming
14. Thistlefoot
15. Nightcrawling
16. Our Wives Under the Sea
17. The Measure
18. Memphis
19. The Violin Conspiracy
20. Jackal


Best Young Adult Fiction
1. The Final Gambit
✔2. Loveless-- 8/13/22 ⭐⭐⭐
✔3. I Kissed Shara Wheeler-- 8/4/22⭐⭐
4. The First to Die at the End
✔5. I Must Betray You-- 5/7/22⭐⭐⭐
✔6. Anatomy: A Love Story
7. All My Rage
8. I Fell in Love with Hope
9. Family of Liars
✔10. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School-- 10/4/22⭐⭐⭐⭐
11.As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
✔12. The Weight of Blood
13. You'll Be the Death of Me
✔14. She Gets the Girl
15. Hell Followed With Us
16. See You Yesterday
17. My Mechanical Romance
18. Nothing More to Tell
19. Ophelia After All
20. A Show for Two

Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
1. Gallant
2. Bloodmarked
3. Kingdom of the Feared
4. The Ballad of Never After
5. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
6. Cytonic
7. Foul Lady Fortune
8. Belladonna
9. Cursed
10. This Woven Kingdom
11. These Twisted Bonds
12. All That's Left in the World
13. The Sunbearer Trials
14. Hotel Magnifique
15. A Magic Steeped in Poison
16. So This Is Ever After
17. If You Could See the Sun
18. Only a Monster
19. The Dragon's Promise
20. Violet Made of Thorns


Best Middle Grade & Childrens's
1. I Am Quiet: A Story for the Introvert in All of Us
2. Rise of the School for Good and Evil
3. Amari and the Great Game
4. Small Town Pride
5. Witchlings
6. This Is (Not) Enough
7. Stellarlune
8. Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor
9. The Elephant Girl
10. Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality
11. The Marvellers
12. Ravenfall
13. The Ogress and the Orphans
14. The Best Gift for Bear
15. I Am Able to Shine
16. New from Here
17. The Pennymores and the Curse of the Invisible Quill
18. The Girl in White
19. Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians
20. How to Heal a Gryphon

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Categories

Best Fiction:

Best Mystery & Thriller:

Best Historical Fiction:

Best Fantasy:

Best Romance:
Reminders of Him - Colleen Hoover ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑

Best Science Fiction:

Best Horror:

Best Humor:

Best Nonfiction:

Best Memoir & Autobiography:

Best History & Biography:

Best Graphic Novels & Comics:

Best Poetry:

Best Debut Novels:

Best Young Adult Fiction:

Best Young Adult Fantasy:

I'd like to read 10 books for this challenge

1.) Lessons in Chemistry ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2.) It Starts with Us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
3.) The Final Gambit ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

On my TBR:

We are 4 months in on this challenge. How are we doing? Any new favorites?

2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Winners & Nominees
23/20

Read in 2022:


Read in 2023:
4/17 4/27 5/6 6/14 6/18 7/5 9/10 10/2 10/10 10/16 10/31 11/6 11/21

Donna wrote: "We are 4 months in on this challenge. How are we doing? Any new favorites?"

Totally missed this comment Donna! I'm at 19 books!

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They need some help over here. Does anyone want to take a guess?

I've read a handful & have a couple more on TBR.

Best Fiction
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub 12/3 4★

Best Mystery & Thriller
2022: The Maid by Nita Prose 8/3 3.5★
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman 4/2 5★
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn 6/3 3.5★
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley 30/3 2.5★

Best Historical Fiction
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid 16/7 3.5★

Best Romance
Book Lovers by Emily Henry 12/6 2.5★

Best Science Fiction
2022: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 20/6 3.5★

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I'm going to keep working on these through 2024. I didn't do very well with it because the hold lists for most of these books at my libraries are EXTREMELY LONG!!!

I can make this an open-ended challenge. Would that be something you guys are interested in? Let you guys work on it for a while longer.

Mystery & Thriller
The Housemaid 5/26/23

Best Fantasy
Legends & Lattes 6/28/23

Best Horror
The Fervor 11/8/23

Best Historical Fiction
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone 7/30/22

Best Young Adult and Science Fiction
This Woven Kingdom 12/12/22

...doesn't end? Well, allow me to make this huge for myself lol

Start: December 12, 2023
End: ➖

Best Fiction
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Our Missing Hearts
Notes on an Execution

Best Mystery & Thriller
The Maid
A Flicker in the Dark
The Paris Apartment
The It Girl
Killers of a Certain Age
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Daisy Darker
The Housemaid
The Family Game
The Golden Couple
Things We Do in the Dark
The Family Remains
More Than You'll Ever Know

Best Historical Fiction
The Diamond Eye
The Last House on the Street
Trust
Peach Blossom Spring

Best Fantasy
House of Sky and Breath
Babel
Fairy Tale
The Atlas Six
Elektra
The Lost Metal
The Book Eaters
When Women Were Dragons
Nettle & Bone
Thistlefoot
Ordinary Monsters

Best Science Fiction
Sea of Tranquility
Leech
Upgrade

Best Horror
Hidden Pictures
What Moves the Dead
Juniper & Thorn
Our Wives Under the Sea
The Children on the Hill
House of Hunger
Gallows Hill
The Violence
Just Like Mother
Manhunt
Sundial
Such Sharp Teeth
We Spread
The Devil Takes You Home
The Cherry Robbers
White Horse
The Fervor

Best Humor
Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
Idiots: Marriage, Motherhood, Milk & Mistakes
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
Happy-Go-Lucky
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays

Best History & Biography
Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America

Best Young Adult Fiction
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Anatomy: A Love Story
I Must Betray You
The Weight of Blood
Family of Liars
Hell Followed With Us
Nothing More to Tell

Best Young Adult Fantasy
Gallant
Kingdom of the Feared
This Woven Kingdom
The Sunbearer Trials
Only a Monster
Hotel Magnifique
So This Is Ever After
A Magic Steeped in Poison

Donna wrote: "I can make this an open-ended challenge. Would that be something you guys are interested in? Let you guys work on it for a while longer."

Thank you Donna!!! That's AWESOME!!!

I hope you are all getting some reading in and enjoying the extension on this challenge!

2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Winners & Nominees

Books Read:16


Categories
Best Fiction
Best Mystery & Thriller:
-Nominee-Killers of a Certain Age-7/8/23⭐⭐⭐⭐
-Nominee-Wrong Place Wrong Time-3/1/24⭐⭐⭐⭐
Best Historical Fiction:
-Nominee-Lessons in Chemistry-10/25/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Best Fantasy:
-Nominee-The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches-7/5/23⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
-Nominee-The War of Two Queens-6/7/23⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
-Nominee-Nettle & Bone-1/4/24⭐⭐⭐
Best Romance:
🏆:Book Lovers-2/20/23⭐⭐⭐⭐
-Nominee:The Kiss Curse-8/22/23⭐⭐⭐⭐
-Nominee:Hook, Line, and Sinker-6/9/23⭐⭐⭐⭐
-Nominee:It Starts with Us-3/23/24⭐⭐⭐⭐
-Nominee:Terms and Conditions-5/2/24⭐⭐⭐⭐
-Nominee-Love on the Brain-11/1/24⭐⭐⭐⭐
-Nominee-Thank You for Listening-1/11/25⭐⭐⭐⭐
-Nominee-Twisted Hate-1/17/25⭐⭐⭐⭐
Best Science Fiction
Best Horror
Best Humor:
🏆:The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There-2/25/23⭐⭐⭐⭐
Best Nonfiction
Best Memoir & Autobiography
🏆I'm Glad My Mom Died-9/8/2023⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Best History & Biography
Best Graphic Novels & Comics
Best Poetry
Best Debut Novels:
🏆-Lessons in Chemistry-10/25/24⭐⭐⭐⭐
Best Young Adult Fiction
Best Young Adult Fantasy
Best Middle Grade & Childrens's

2022 Goodreads Choice Awards
Duration: January 1, 2023 - no deadline

⚜️ Read in 2022/2023 ⚜️


⚜️ Read in 2024 ⚜️


Best Fiction
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
True Biz by Sara Nović
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand


Best Mystery & Thriller
✔︎ The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley Read: 2/15/24
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks
The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
The Family Game by Catherine Steadman


Best Historical Fiction
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Violeta by Isabel Allende
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu


Best Fantasy
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher


Best Romance
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan


Best Science Fiction
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty
Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum


Best Horror
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
We Spread by Iain Reid


Best Nonfiction
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain


Best Memoir & Autobiography
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom


Best Graphic Novels & Comics
Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun by Kate Gavino
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V.
Chef's Kiss by Jarrett Melendez
Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure by Lewis Hancox
Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung


Best Debut Novels
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Measure by Nikki Erlick


Best Young Adult Fiction
Loveless by Alice Oseman
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes


Best Young Adult Fantasy
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

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Read the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards
January 1, 2023- TBD

Best Fiction
01/29/25
02/17/25
03/21/25
03/25/25
04/01/25

Best Mystery & Thriller
02/20/25
02/21/25
02/22/25
06/16/25

Best Historical Fiction
05/24/22
09/30/22
06/08/23
09/19/23
12/25/24
01/02/25

Best Fantasy
10/18/24
01/19/25
01/20/25

Best Romance
01/12/23
04/28/23
05/31/23
10/19/23
01/21/25
01/24/25
01/27/25
02/01/25
02/02/25
02/03/25
02/04/25
02/07/25
02/13/25
02/14/25
06/24/25

Best Humor
01/04/23
12/17/24

Best Memoir & Autobiography
04/29/23

Best Debut Novels
08/08/23
01/21/25
02/20/25
02/21/25

Best Young Adult Fiction
03/26/24
08/24/24

I am archiving this challenge at the end of 2025.