The final round of voting is now open for the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards. The choices in each award category have been cut down from 20 to ten, and it is time for readers to put their support behind their favorite titles...granted they are still in the running.
Unfortunately, it looks like Danzy Senna's Colored Television did not make it to the final round for the Favorite Fiction category, but both I Hope This Finds You Well and Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop did, so my vote for the former remains.
For Favorite Historical Fiction, five of the seven DSNs that were originally nominated remain, which means half of the options available are books covered on this blog...I am thinking for the first time ever. While The Bullet Swallower and The Storm We Made did not make the top ten, Xochitl Gonzalez's Anita de Monte Laughs Last did, and I have given it my vote once again.
In Favorite Science Fiction, I will have to pick a different book to vote for as Beautyland did not make the final round, and neither did Cebo Campbell's Sky Full of Elephants. So I will put my support behind Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley, a book that takes an interesting look at time travel.
It seems that Vanessa Chan's The Storm We Made and Cebo Campbell's Sky Full of Elephants also did not garner enough votes to make it to the final round for the Favorite Debut Novel category, along with Morgan Talty's Fire Exit. But just like with the Favorite Fiction category, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop is holding strong.
For the two young adult categories, Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink is no longer in the running for the Favorite Young Adult Fantasy category, but both Where Sleeping Girls Lie and The Reappearance of Rachel Price remain in Favorite Young Adult Fiction, and I have voted for the former.
And when it comes to nonfiction, looks like I can no longer vote for There's Always This Year in the Favorite Memoir category, or Madness in the Favorite History & Biography category. Oh well, such is the nature of the competition.
Of the original 22 DSNs that were nominated, only 13 remain, and a few have a decent chance of winning their categories.
The final round of voting closes this Sunday, December 1st, with the winners being announced Thursday, December 5th. Happy voting!
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