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GR Choice Awards 2022 Mystery/Thrillerhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
1. The Maid
✔2. The Paris Apartment--3/2/23 ⭐⭐⭐
3. The Bullet That Missed
4. A Flicker in the Dark
✔5. The Book of Cold Cases-- 8/3/22 ⭐⭐⭐
6. Wrong Place Wrong Time
7. Killers of a Certain Age
8. The It Girl
9. All Good People Here
✔10. Daisy Darker--6/20/23 ⭐⭐⭐
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Historical Fictionhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Fantasyhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Romancehttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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--6/4/23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Science Fictionhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
1. Sea of Tranquility
2. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau--5/29/23⭐⭐
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Horrorhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Humorhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Nonfictionhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Memoir & Autobiographyhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
1. I'm Glad My Mom DiedFriends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing--4/16 ⭐
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best History & Biographyhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Graphic Novels & Comicshttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Poetryhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Debut Novelshttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Young Adult Fictionhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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--6/9/23 ⭐⭐⭐
20. A Show for Two
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fictionhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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
GR Choice Awards 2022 Best Middle Grade & Childrens'shttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
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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11. Mad Honey
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13. This Time Tomorrow
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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