

Goodreads analyzes statistics from the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on site to nominate 20 books in each category. The eligibility and how they selected the first round nominees can be found under Voting Schedule > Rules & Eligibility. There are a lot of genre/categories (17!) which include YA, middle grade, comic book, fiction, nonfiction, memoir, SFF, romance, mystery, and more. The 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards have just opened which means we’re in round one: Between November 16 and November 28, you can vote for one book from each genre/category. Yay for all the nominees, but for many of these genres, it’s gonna be super tough to narrow down a favorite to vote from all the favorite options.


If you look forward to the end of the year when you get to not only shout about your favorite books but also actually cast a vote and root for them to win, your time has come: the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards are open for voting! There are seventeen genres/categories with 20 nominees each.
