Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

Goodreads Choice Award Challenge 2020

The group challenge is to read as many nominees and award winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 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, you can to go to the books page. To select a book you click on “Want to Read” directly below the picture of the book cover. Then, from the book page:
* You can hover your curser over the little green picture that looks like books right next to the “Want to Read” icon. This will cause a drop down menu to appear and you simply check off the shelf that you have assigned to the challenge.
* If you have already read the book or added it to your “to-read” shelf, then below the book information there will be a section titled “My Review”. Within this section, you can see what bookshelves you have added the book to and just under the list of bookshelves you can click on “edit 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.

If you have already added the book to your bookshelf, you can add it to the challenge from your bookshelf:
* If you look 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, 2019 (yes 2019 is correct, because you already might have read some of the nominees / winners) and December 31st 2020 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”.

2019 Choice Awards List
The winners will become this group's monthly reads.
The rest of the nominees will be voted by the group for additional monthly reads. Both winners and nominees will go towards the group's yearly challenge.

BEST FICTION - Winner: The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale #2)

A Woman Is No Man
Ask Again, Yes
Find Me (Call Me By Your Name #2)
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Girl, Woman, Other
Lanny
Normal People
Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge #2)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Queenie
Red at the Bone
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
The Gifted School
The Last Romantics
The Most Fun We Ever Had
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
The Reckless Oath We Made
When All Is Said
Where the Forest Meets the Stars

BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER - Winner: The Silent Patient

A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)
An Anonymous Girl
Disappearing Earth
I'll Never Tell
Lock Every Door
Miracle Creek
My Lovely Wife
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Run Away
Searching for Sylvie Lee
The Chain
The Family Upstairs
The Last Widow (Will Trent #9)
The Line Between
The Lost Man
The Mother-in-Law
The Night Fire (Renée Ballard, #3)
The Turn of the Key
The Whisper Man

BEST HISTORICAL FICTION - Winner: Daisy Jones & The Six

Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
City of Girls
Lost Roses (Lilac Girls #2)
Mrs. Everything
Nottingham
Once Upon a River
Summer of '69
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Dutch House
The Giver of Stars
The Huntress
The Island of Sea Women
The Lost Girls of Paris
The Nickel Boys
The Night Tiger
The Summer Country
The Water Dancer
This Tender Land
What the Wind Knows

BEST FANTASY - Winner: Ninth House

A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
Age of Legend (The Legends of the First Empire, #4)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle, #3)
Fire & Blood
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Holy Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #3)
Magic for Liars
Middlegame
Of Blood and Bone (Chronicles of The One #2)
Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson #11)
The Burning White (Lightbringer #5)
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2)
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy #2)
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Red Scrolls of Magic
The Starless Sea
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy #3)

BEST ROMANCE - Winner: Red, White & Royal Blue

Ayesha at Last
Beard Necessities (Winston Brothers #7)
Brazen and the Beast (The Bareknuckle Bastards #2)
Meet Cute
Pretty Reckless
Sapphire Flames (Hidden Legacy #4)
The Best Thing
The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient #2)
The Flatshare
The Friend Zone
The Girl He Used to Know
The Kiss Thief
The Savior (Black Dagger Brotherhood #17)
The Unhoneymooners
The Wallflower Wager (Girl Meets Duke #3)
The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date #3)
Things You Save in a Fire
Verity
Well Met

BEST SCIENCE FICTION - Winner: Recursion

A Memory Called Empire
Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2)
Dark Age (Red Rising Saga #5)
Exhalation: Stories
Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Gideon the Ninth
Here and Now and Then
Machines Like Me
One Word Kill
The City in the Middle of the Night
The Deep
The Future of Another Timeline
The Light Brigade
The Test
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn, #3)
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse #8)
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Wanderers

BEST HORROR - Winner: The Institute

A Cosmology of Monsters
Bunny
Full Throttle
Growing Things and Other Stories
Imaginary Friend
No One's Home
Petra's Ghost
Song for the Unraveling of the World
The Girl in Red
The Invited
The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
The Luminous Dead
The Monster of Elendhaven
The Need
The Remaking
The Toll
The Twisted Ones
Violet
Wakenhyrst

BEST HUMOUR - Winner: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life

A Woman First: First Woman: A Memoir
Baby Don't Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
Do You Mind If I Cancel?
Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification
Good Things Happen to People You Hate: Essays
Hope Rides Again (Obama Biden Mysteries #2)
Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!
Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results
Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
Small Doses
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
Southern Lady Code
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People
William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls

BEST NONFICTION - Winner: Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness
How to Be an Antiracist
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
The Witches Are Coming
Thick: And Other Essays
Three Women
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Winner: Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
How We Fight For Our Lives
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Inside Out
Know My Name
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Me
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are
Permanent Record
Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain
Sounds Like Titanic
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Toil & Trouble
What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Year of the Monkey

BEST HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY - Winner: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
First: Sandra Day O'Connor
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - Winner: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Underland
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

BEST FOOD & COOKBOOKS - Winner: Antoni in the Kitchen

Binging with Babish: 100 Recipes Recreated from Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows
Burn the Place: A Memoir
Forking Good: A Cookbook Inspired by The Good Place
Happiness Is Baking: Cakes, Pies, Tarts, Muffins, Brownies, Cookies: Favorite Desserts from the Queen of Cake
Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family
Let's Make Ramen!: A Comic Book Cookbook
Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
Mostly Plants: 101 Delicious Flexitarian Recipes from the Pollan Family
No Crumbs Left: Whole30 Endorsed, Recipes for Everyday Food Made Marvelous
Notes from a Young Black Chef
Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over
Plant-Based on a Budget: Delicious Vegan Recipes for Under $30 a Week, for Less Than 30 Minutes a Meal
Rachael Ray 50: Memories and Meals from a Sweet and Savory Life: A Cookbook
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Sunny-Side Up: More Than 100 Breakfast & Brunch Recipes from the Essential Egg to the Perfect Pastry
The Adventurous Eaters Club: Mastering the Art of Family Mealtime
The Clean Plate: Eat, Reset, Heal
The Little Women Cookbook: Tempting Recipes from the March Sisters and Their Friends and Family
Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen

BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS & COMICS - Winner: Pumpkinheads

"Okay" (The Wicked + The Divine #9)
Bloom
Book Love
Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
Fence, Vol. 3 (Fence #9-12)
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper #2)
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
Mooncakes
Paper Girls, Vol. 5
Shades of Magic Vol. 1: The Steel Prince
Teen Titans: Raven
The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion (The Umbrella Academy #3)
They Called Us Enemy
Under The Moon: A Catwoman Tale

BEST POETRY - Winner: Shout

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
A Fortune for Your Disaster
Almost Home: Poems
Aphrodite Made Me Do It
Deaf Republic: Poems
Empty Bottles Full of Stories
Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
I'm Not Your Paper Princess: Poems
Life of the Party
Lord of the Butterflies
Love Looks Pretty on You
Magical Negro
Soft Science
The Girl Aquarium
The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic #3)
The Octopus Museum: Poems
The Tradition
The Truth About Magic
When You Ask Me Where I'm Going

BEST DEBUT NOVEL - Winner: Red, White & Royal Blue

A Woman Is No Man
Boy Swallows Universe
Evvie Drake Starts Over
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Gideon the Ninth
House of Salt and Sorrows
Miracle Creek
My Sister, the Serial Killer
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Queenie
Serpent & Dove
The Friend Zone
The Most Fun We Ever Had
The Secrets We Kept
The Silent Patient
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Water Dancer
We Hunt the Flame
When All Is Said

BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION - Winner: Five Feet Apart

Again, but Better
American Royals
Birthday
Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)
Frankly in Love
I Wish You All the Best
Internment
Love From A to Z
Lovely War
On the Come Up
Opposite of Always
Serious Moonlight
The Fountains of Silence
The Grace Year
The Princess and the Fangirl (Once Upon a Con #2)
The Rest of the Story
The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2)
Two Can Keep a Secret
With the Fire on High

BEST YOUNG ADULT FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION - Winner: The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Aurora Rising
Bloodwitch (The Witchlands, #3)
Call Down the Hawk
Defy Me (Shatter Me, #5)
Finale (Caraval, #3)
Four Dead Queens
King of Scars
Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices, #3)
Rebel (Legend, #4)
Serpent & Dove
Sorcery of Thorns
Supernova (Renegades, #3)
The Gilded Wolves
The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)
The Toll (Arc of a Scythe #3)
Wayward Son (Simon Snow #2)
We Hunt the Flame
Wilder Girls

BEST MIDDLE GRADE & CHILDREN'S - Winner: The Tyrant's Tomb (The Trials of Apollo #4)

A Crystal of Time (The School for Good and Evil: The Camelot Years #2)
A Tale of Magic...
Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava Quintet #2)
Dead Voices (Small Spaces #2)
Dear Sweet Pea
Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal
Dragon Pearl
Guts (Smile #3)
Legacy (Keeper of the Lost Cities #8)
New Kid
Other Words for Home
Shouting at the Rain
The Bridge Home
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
The Strangers
The Unteachables
To Night Owl from Dogfish
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Tunnel of Bones (Cassidy Blake #2)

BEST PICTURE BOOKS - Winner: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers

A Piglet Named Mercy
A Tiger Like Me
Because
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Hair Love
How to Read a Book
It's Not Hansel and Gretel
Just Because
Pirates Don't Go to Kindergarten!
Rosie the Dragon and Charlie Make Waves
Snow Globe Wishes
Sulwe
The Good Egg
The Proudest Blue
The Undefeated
Unicorn Day
Vacation for Dexter! (Dexter T. Rexter, #3)
We Are (Not) Friends
What If Everybody Thought That?

Please do let me know if there are any mistakes in the list!

Thanks for getting the list up so quickly, Lynn! I'm excited to start adding books my challenge shelf. I'll have the challenge posted sometime tomorrow.

Thanks for putting the list together, Lynn!!! :)

The challenge has been posted! Check it out here! :) There is also a link on the group's home page.

I did a write-in for This Tender Land in the initial round for Best Historical Fiction. I am so happy it made it to the next round. This Tender Land

I just realized that a couple of my other write-ins made it into the polls. I think three of them made it. However, I just finished The Huntress and decided that I liked it more than my write-in, so I'm going to change my vote this round.

Thank you for putting this together! :)

I made my shelf and added ones I've read this year or that I know I want to read. I'll probably wait until the winners are announced to complete my challenge though as I will probably add some or all of them if I don't have them already- plus haven't added any children's or cookbooks or non fiction or biography yet.

Kerrin wrote: "I did a write-in for This Tender Land in the initial round for Best Historical Fiction. I am so happy it made it to the next round. This Tender Land"

Me too!!!

I am still trying to finish up this years list!! I will be adding new ones when the winners are announced and the list comes out for the new year!! I am making the exception on the picture books though -- love reading and sharing them with the kids in my life.

Thanks Lynn! I think this year might be the most challenging for me as I haven't read any 2019 releases. (I spent this past year trying to catch up with previous years nominees).

This year I slacked big time on my reading :-(. I hope this year to do better but not sure what is going to happen since I am due in 3 weeks with a little bundle of joy.

Stephanie wrote: "This year I slacked big time on my reading :-(. I hope this year to do better but not sure what is going to happen since I am due in 3 weeks with a little bundle of joy."

Congratulations, Stephanie!

Congratulations Stephanie :-)

Cathie wrote: "Congratulations Stephanie :-)"
Thank you

Stephanie wrote: "This year I slacked big time on my reading :-(. I hope this year to do better but not sure what is going to happen since I am due in 3 weeks with a little bundle of joy."

Oooooh, Stephanie - Set your goal only at 10 books and choose all of them from the BEST PICTURE BOOKS category! ;)

Must be soon now! Congratulations!

Thanks so much for putting this together. There are so many good books. Helps to easily see the list.

How is everyone doing on their challenges? We have about a month and a half left to go. Do you think you'll be able to finish on time?

I completed my goal of 30 GCA books a while ago, currently on 36.

Thanks for doing the Monthly Challenges. This year I finished my goal of 20, so changed it to 30, and think I have read 34. Have a couple for Nov. Challenge I’m reading. Really glad b/c it was a fun way to read a lot of great books. Usually, I never meet my goal, so appreciative it, Kristie and Lynn.

YAY, so glad it helped :)

That's great, Kristine! Good job attaining your goal and even your adjusted goal!

My goal was lower this year than last. I set it at 20 instead of 25 because there were less books on my TBR that I really wanted to read. I reached 21 so far and some of them weren't the ones I expected to read. I think I'm satisfied with that considering how my reading year went this year. I have set my 2021 goal for 20 again though I may change it once I add more books to my TBR.

Kristie wrote: "That's great, Kristine! Good job attaining your goal and even your adjusted goal!

My goal was lower this year than last. I set it at 20 instead of 25 because there were less books on my TBR that ..."
Kristie, that sounds great, picking the amount of books you are interested in.
Most years I set my goal too high and don’t finish. I ended up reading books I usually wouldn’t pick, many I found I really liked. Reading Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift. I would not have picked that, but needed a Blue and White book. It ends up the book is terrific. So positive and empowering.
You’re also working a lot on this site and that helps so much. I think the idea of reading is to enjoy the books and learn new ideas. Sounds like you picked the right amount. Happy Reading.

Thanks, Kristine. I usually start by adding books to my challenge shelf that I already read or have on my tbr, then I go through the list to see if there are others that I want to add. After that I can see how many I already have interest in and set a goal. Once the winners are announced and our reading list comes out, I will add even more to my tbr. Unfortunately, I know that I won't be able to read all the books I want to, but it is fun to try. :)

I like that you add to your list based on challenges too. You'll definitely read more of them that way!

I read 15 but my goal was 12 (1 per month) so that's great.

Savanes wrote: "I read 15 but my goal was 12 (1 per month) so that's great."

That's excellent! Especially with little ones in the house.

Good job everyone!
I love hearing how everyone creates their list.

I have met my goal of 20 this year - I am actually at 20 right now.

I usually start with the ones I have already read. Then I look at the winners and add the ones from there that I want to read.
Then I browse the lists and add some more.
The most surprising part for me is watching the threads and seeing how other people liked things. I have added the most through what you all say about the books.

Great Job everyone!
I met my goal of 30 and actually read 45 books, I had read 20 of those books prior, so actually read 25 in "2020." I upped my goal for 2021 to 35 and currently have read 18. I belong to the BOTM (Book of the Month), so that is how I usually read the new releases.

I do pretty much the same thing as Vicki. I very rarely read mystery, thrillers, or horror, so most of my books are from fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction.

Usually every year there are a bunch of mystery thrillers and historical fiction books that I have read and I have to decide which I liked the best. Some years, that happens in fiction as well, rarely in other categories. Usually I have at least one or two in most categories to choose from, but this year I was low on reading the books I thought would be nominated. I don't have interest in several of them.

I have a more difficult time in categories where I didn't like a book, but there is nothing else that I've read to vote for. This year it was the fiction category for me. I read Anxious People and didn't love it. I didn't think it was terrible, just not worthy of an award. But, I know a lot of people loved it. I'd love to have something to vote on that is running against it, but even though I have several on my TBR and expected them to be included I haven't read any others yet. I ended up giving my vote away and voting for something a friend loved. This has happened at least three before. Hmmm... maybe there's one every year? lol I'll have to pay attention to if its a pattern.

Well, I completed my challenge (22 books) and even got the congratulations on here, but then deleted my 2020 shelf when I created the 2021 shelf for better organization. I had to leave the challenge then since it was saying I had read 0 and couldn't figure out how to fix it- now on to 2021 challenge, but for those considering old shelf deleting, don't.

Oh, that is a bummer Bonnie.
Did the books at least stay on your "read" shelf?
You could reconstruct it...
Or say whatever and move on! That is probably what I would do.

Vicki Willis wrote: "Oh, that is a bummer Bonnie.
Did the books at least stay on your "read" shelf?
You could reconstruct it...
Or say whatever and move on! That is probably what I would do."

The books are still on my read shelf, but I agree I am just moving on. Next year I will wait at least until after the New Year to delete my challenge shelves.

I usually set my goal at 25, but with the forced downtime this year I doubled the goal to 50. I have more than doubled my goal. Between being totally retired and everything I planned for this summer cancelled due to Covid (50th class reunion, trip to see my great grandsons, etc) I have enjoyed a lot of free time to read. Starting 2021 I am going to try the monthly challenge.
Happy New Year to you all.