Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 Final Round

It is the final round of voting for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards, which means in just a few short weeks, readers will have made it known which books have been their favorites across 20 categories.

The selections have gone from 20 to 10 in each area, which means there will be more than a few favorites that will not be available for final consideration. Time to find out which DSNs are still in the running, and which ones have sadly been left behind.

While all five of the DSNs that were originally nominated for the Best Fiction Category have managed to hold on, not every novel from Best Historical Fiction has been so lucky. I am certainly surprised to see that Martha Hall Kelly's Lost Roses did not make it through to the final round, though that does not change my vote as Daisy Jones & The Six is still going strong. 

Blake Crouch's Recursion is also still holding on in the Best Science Fiction category. Unfortunately, Tressie McMillan Cottom's Thick has been removed from Best Nonfiction, and Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman's Sounds Like Titanic is no longer in the running for Best Memoir & Autobiography, though I cannot quite bring myself to vote for Maid for Stephanie Land. 

All is well in the Best Graphic Novel section, and I am interested to see if the graphic novel version of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale will prevail. I will still be voting for Rainbow Rowell's Pumpkinheads, but either book has a chance of taking the top prize. There are no changes for the DSNs in Best Debut Novel, but the same cannot be said for my favorite category, Best Young Adult Fiction. It seems Internment by Samira Ahmed did not receive enough votes to advance, which is a shame but this is an incredible book. Sure, there are five other DSNs still going strong, two of which are from YA Fest, but still. 

And as a surprise to no one, Stephanie Garber's Finale still has a chance to win for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction. Though it received my vote in the previous rounds, I must switch now that I have read Neal Shusterman's The Toll, the conclusion to his Arc of a Scythe series. Yes, it is just that good.

The final round of voting will receive more time than the previous ones, as it will close Monday, December 2, allowing for a full two weeks. The winners will be announced Tuesday, December 10, so be sure to get in your final votes and support those novels that are still standing strong.