Goodreads has launched the opening round for their yearly awards for the best books just recently. I skimmed through the categories myself, yet already saw quite mixed reviews about the suggestions for this year’s nominees.
Some categories like poetry and children books were removed (yeah, you can say that children ain’t a target audience for the Goodreads yet this platform always seemed to be well rounded).
Graphic novels is also something that was removed unfortunately. Although these ain’t my cup of tea, I’m almost sure it must be upsetting for a large group of people.
This could be solved if they made the opening round shorter and the final round longer though I think.
In my favourite category I’ve read 7 of the nominees, 5 in the debut category, and I don’t even read that much (23 books this year). I think that’s a fair amount to vote and simply shorten the list.
I’m sure I could probably make a go of reading most finalists if I had the full two weeks. But it’s just a couple days after that which is not really fair. I don’t vote but I’m sure some do.
Also, some of the best books I read this year aren’t even on there