The voting has now opened for the final round of the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards, and after this, the winners will be announced on Thursday, December 4th. It is time to see which of the 20 nominated DSNs did not quite make it to this last round of the competition.
For the Favorite Historical Fiction category, it looks like not enough people put in votes for Patrick Ryan's Buckeye (review will be published this Friday), a sweeping epic about two families in early 20th century middle America. But Charmaine Wilkerson's Good Dirt remains, so it will keep my vote. Yiming Ma's These Memories Do Not Belong to Us suffered a similar fate in the Favorite Science Fiction category, while Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author holds strong.
Joanna Miller's The Eights failed to gather the votes to stay in the Favorite Debut Novel category, leaving no DSNs in the running. But it is no surprise the Suzanne Collins' Sunrise on the Reaping is still in it for Favorite Young Adult Fantasy & Sci-Fi, while the same could not be said for The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor.
And heartbreak of heartbreaks, not one of the three nominated DSNs made it to the final round for Favorite Young Adult Fiction. Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours, Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley, and Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams are all left out of the top ten for the category. A man who is known for his YA books, John Green, has a nonfiction book that is still in the running for Favorite Nonfiction. Everything Is Tuberculosis could very well take it all, but sadly, Imani Perry's Black in Blues has not moved on.
So it seems seven of the 20 nominated DSNs have not advanced to the final round of voting, but that means 13 still remain. This final round will stay open to reader votes though this Sunday, November 30, and we will all find out the results the following Thursday, December 4th.
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