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Nov 14, 2025 03:45PM

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Goodreads Choice Award Challenge 2026

The group challenge is to read as many nominees and award winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2025 as possible.

Challenge instructions - Easy step by step instructions put together by Kristie:

Creating Your Shelf
To participate in the Choice Awards Challenge, you will need to have a special shelf dedicated to the challenge. To do this, go to your bookshelf (click on “my books” to get there). Below your list of bookshelves on the lefthand side of the page, click on “add shelf”. Chose a name for your shelf that will let you know it is your challenge shelf (whatever name you want), Save the shelf.

Adding Books to Your Challenge Shelf
Check out the nominees and award winners below and add the ones you want to read/read to your challenge shelf. There are a couple of ways to do this. Please note that you can choose to add the book any one of the three ways below, just choose the way that you find easiest. You do not have to do all three.

To start with, go to the books page. Then, from the book page:

* Click on the 'want to read' under the book cover icon, and then 'continue to tags', and then choose the shelf you've assigned to the challenge.

* If you have already read the book or added it to your “to-read” shelf, then below the book cover icon click on 'edit my activity'. This will take you to the review page where you can 'choose shelves', which will cause a drop down menu to appear and again you simply check off the shelf that you have assigned to the challenge.

*Alternatively, If you have already added the book to your bookshelf, you can search for the book in 'my books' and under the column titled “shelves” next to the book you want to add to the challenge, it will list the shelves that the book is currently on. Just below the list of shelves, you can click “edit” and a drop down menu to appear and again you simply check off the shelf that you have assigned to the challenge.

Joining the Challenge
Next go to the challenge page HERE
Enter your goal and the bookshelf to which you'll add the nominees and award winners (the one you just created above). Make sure to copy the shelf name exactly. Save again!

Participating
This is the best part! To participate all you need to do is read the books you have chosen! After you have read a book, make sure to mark it as read.

If the book is marked as read between January 1st, 2025 (yes 2025 is correct, because you already might have read some of the nominees / winners) and December 31st 2026 and you have added it to your challenge shelf, it will automatically count toward this challenge.

Trouble-shooting
If you read your book and it did not count towards your challenge, there are a couple of things you can do.

First, make sure that you have added the book to your assigned shelf.

Next, make sure that you have set the “read” date accurately. When you mark a book as read you can set the date. Usually, it will automatically assign the read date to the day you mark it off, but occasionally this doesn’t happen. If you’re having trouble, just make sure you set the “read” date to “today”.

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message 2: by Lynn, Moderator (last edited Nov 14, 2025 03:47PM) (new)

Nov 14, 2025 03:45PM

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