Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

Goodreads Choice Award Challenge 2023

The group challenge is to read as many nominees and award winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2022 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, 2022 (yes 2022 is correct, because you already might have read some of the nominees / winners) and December 31st 2023 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”.

2022 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: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Demon Copperhead
Honor
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4)
Mad Honey
Nightcrawling
Notes on an Execution
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Olga Dies Dreaming
Other Birds
Our Missing Hearts
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Hotel Nantucket
The Winners (Beartown #3)
This Time Tomorrow
To Paradise
True Biz
Wish You Were Here

BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER

Winner: The Maid

A Flicker in the Dark
All Good People Here
Daisy Darker
Jackal
Killers of a Certain Age
More Than You'll Ever Know
The Book of Cold Cases
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3)
The Family Game
The Family Remains (The Family Upstairs, #2)
The Golden Couple
The Housemaid (The Housemaid #1)
The It Girl
The Night Shift
The Overnight Guest
The Paris Apartment
The Violin Conspiracy
Things We Do in the Dark
Wrong Place Wrong Time

BEST HISTORICAL FICTION

Winner: Carrie Soto Is Back

Black Cake
Four Treasures of the Sky
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)
Hester
Lessons in Chemistry
Memphis
Peach Blossom Spring
Shrines of Gaiety
Take My Hand
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
The Diamond Eye
The Last House on the Street
The Last Rose of Shanghai
The Magnolia Palace
The Marriage Portrait
The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
Trust
Violeta
Young Mungo

BEST FANTASY

Winner: House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2)

A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence #1)
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom Duology, #1)
Elektra
Fairy Tale
Kaikeyi
Legends & Lattes
Nettle & Bone
Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
The Book Eaters
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)
The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1)
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The War of Two Queens (Blood and Ash, #4)
The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
Thistlefoot
When Women Were Dragons

BEST ROMANCE

Winner: Book Lovers

Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare was an Auntie #1)
Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls #1)
Electric Idol (Dark Olympus, #2)
Every Summer After
Funny You Should Ask
Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)
It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us #2)
Love on the Brain
Part of Your World
Reminders of Him
Terms and Conditions (Dreamland Billionaires #2)
Thank You for Listening
The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception #2)
The Bodyguard
The Kiss Curse (Ex Hex #2)
The Wedding Crasher
Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout #1)
Twisted Hate (Twisted #3)
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

BEST SCIENCE FICTION

Winner: Sea of Tranquility

Atomic Anna
Dead Silence
How High We Go in the Dark
Hunt the Stars (Starlight's Shadow #1)
Leech
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
Lost in Time
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Ocean's Echo
Primitives
Self-Portrait with Nothing
Sleepwalk
Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders #1)
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
The Genesis of Misery
The Kaiju Preservation Society
The Measure
Upgrade

BEST HORROR

Winner: Hidden Pictures

Gallows Hill
Gwendy's Final Task
House of Hunger
Juniper & Thorn
Just Like Mother
Manhunt
Our Wives Under the Sea
Small Angels
Such Sharp Teeth
Sundial
The Cherry Robbers
The Children on the Hill
The Devil Takes You Home
The Fervor
The Hacienda
The Violence
We Spread
What Moves the Dead
White Horse

BEST HUMOUR

Winner: The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
I'm More Dateable than a Plate of Refried Beans: And Other Romantic Observations
Idiots: Marriage, Motherhood, Milk & Mistakes
In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Standup Comedy
Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, Or Is It Just Me?
Sicker in the Head: More Conversations about Life and Comedy
Start Without Me
Ten Steps to Nanette
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
The Nineties
The World Deserves My Children
The World's Worst Assistant
Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams

BEST NONFICTION

Winner: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
All the Living and the Dead: from Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
An Immense World
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Trayvon Generation
These Precious Days: Essays
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Winner: I'm Glad My Mom Died

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir
Easy Beauty
Finding Me
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
Lost & Found: A Memoir
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
Solito
Stay True: A Memoir
The Man Who Could Move Clouds
Token Black Girl: A Memoir
Uncultured: A Memoir
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

BEST HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY

Winner: Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
American Midnight: Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, 1917-1921
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Anna: The Biography
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS & COMICS

Winner: Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper #4)

A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun
Chef's Kiss
Crumbs
Demon in the Wood (Grishaverse, #0)
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Everything Is OK
Fangirl, Vol. 2: The Manga (Fangirl: The Manga #2)
Huda F Are You?
It Won't Always Be Like This
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 1
Lore Olympus: Volume Two (Lore Olympus Volumes #2)
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American
Oddball (Sarah's Scribbles, #4)
Saga, Volume 10 (Saga #10)
Squire
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
Thieves
Wash Day Diaries
Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure

BEST POETRY

Winner: Call Us What We Carry

Alive At The End Of The World
All the Flowers Kneeling
And Yet: Poems
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
Girls That Never Die: Poems
Golden Ax
Musical Tables: Poems
Normal Distance
On Sun Swallowing
Poukahangatus: Poems
Serenity: Poems
The Hurting Kind: Poems
The Shift: Poetry for a New Perspective
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on
Time Is a Mother
Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)
Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Woman Without Shame: Poems

BEST DEBUT NOVEL

Winner: Lessons in Chemistry

A Flicker in the Dark
All Good People Here
Black Cake
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom Duology, #1)
Every Summer After
How High We Go in the Dark
Jackal
Kaikeyi
Memphis
Nightcrawling
Olga Dies Dreaming
Our Wives Under the Sea
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Hacienda
The Maid
The Measure
The Violin Conspiracy
Thistlefoot

BEST YOUNG ADULT

Winner: The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

A Show for Two
All My Rage
Anatomy: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology #1)
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Family of Liars (We Were Liars #0)
Hell Followed With Us
I Fell in Love with Hope
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
I Must Betray You
Loveless
My Mechanical Romance
Nothing More to Tell
Ophelia After All
See You Yesterday
She Gets the Girl
The First to Die at the End (Death-Cast #0)
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
The Weight of Blood
You'll Be the Death of Me

BEST YOUNG ADULT FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION

Winner: Gallant

A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea #1)
All That's Left in the World
Belladonna (Belladonna #1)
Bloodmarked (Legendborn, #2)
Cursed (Gilded, #2)
Cytonic (Skyward #3)
Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune #1)
Hotel Magnifique
If You Could See the Sun
Kingdom of the Feared (Kingdom of the Wicked, #3)
Only a Monster (Monsters #1)
So This Is Ever After
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
These Twisted Bonds (These Hollow Vows, #2)
This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1)
Violet Made of Thorns (Violet Made of Thorns, #1)

BEST MIDDLE GRADE & CHILDRENS

Winner: I Am Quiet: A Story for the Introvert in All of Us

Amari and the Great Game (Supernatural Investigations, #2)
Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality (Pandava, #5)
Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, #6)
How to Heal a Gryphon
I Am Able to Shine
New from Here
Ravenfall (Ravenfall #1)
Rise of the School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil #0)
Small Town Pride
Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)
The Best Gift for Bear
The Elephant Girl
The Girl in White
The Marvellers (Marvellerverse #1)
The Ogress and the Orphans
The Pennymores and the Curse of the Invisible Quill (Pennymores, #1)
This Is (Not) Enough (You Are (Not) Small #6)
Witchlings (Witchlings #1)
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

As always, it's a lot of data to put together. Please let me know if I've made a mistake in any of the lists.

Thanks, Lynn!

Challenge is now posted on the group's home page. Link is here: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Lynn wrote: "Goodreads Choice Award Challenge 2023

The group challenge is to read as many nominees and award winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2022 as possible.

Challenge instructions - Easy step by step..."

I had a few that weren't showing up as read (and rated) but I figured out it was books I read in kindle format. I had to change to that format to add them right.

Thanks Lynn

That's some weird Goodreads glitch, Bonnie. I wonder if it depends on how the books are entered into the system.