Goodreads Coice Awards - Winners Announced

[rainbowchip]

What do you think of the winners?

[meowmaps]

I'm surprised and maybe a little disappointed. The only book I voted for that won is Recursion and it was the only book I read in the sci-fi category.

[rainbowchip]

I was surprised by the runaway volume of the winners in some of the categories.

Most of the books I voted for won.

I'm very disappointed that the Rachel Hollis book won.

[charlatti]

Dec 10, 2019 12:07:24 GMT -5 rainbowchip said:

I was surprised by the runaway volume of the winners in some of the categories.

That is really odd. I wonder how that happens.

[aspentosh]

Meh on the Silent Patient, but I think I'm in the minority. It was an ok book but nothing special.

Happy about Daisy Jones. Something about that book (and her writing style) are awesome.

I also really enjoyed Red, White, and Royal Blue. I like the topics it took on.

I can't believe Miracle Creek didn't do better. I loved that book.

[rainbowchip]

Dec 10, 2019 12:16:49 GMT -5 charlatti said:

Dec 10, 2019 12:07:24 GMT -5 rainbowchip said:

I was surprised by the runaway volume of the winners in some of the categories.

That is really odd. I wonder how that happens.

I think they add together all the votes from each voting period. But I was expecting the voting to be a bit closer for 1st and 2nd. Like the Ninth House beating Starless Sea by almost 20k votes is wild!

[ufcasey]

I was annoyed that The Testaments got another award (also got the Booker Prize), because it really was just not even on the same playing field as the original Handmaid's Tale. I was ok with The Silent Patient, though I thought The Lost Man should have won. I was really surprised by Ninth House winning, and by such a large margin, considering I DNF'd that book and was head over heels in love with the Winternight Trilogy (The Winter of the Witch is the third book). Recursion winning for SF I was not surprised by, even though I only kind of liked it. Rachel Hollis winning over Ronan Farrow for non-fiction was some crazy shit. I really wish Know My Name would have won Autobiography. I really thought Miracle Creek should have won Best Debut. I wanted to throw things at The Wicked King winning YA Fantasy, Call Down the Hawk was a million times better.

[scribellesam]

I don’t think any of my votes won. I wasn’t really blown away by any books I read this year, though, so I wasn’t very invested.

[ssmjlm]

Dec 10, 2019 12:07:24 GMT -5 rainbowchip said:

I'm very disappointed that the Rachel Hollis book won.

She is such a fraud and a horrible example for the women of today.  I cannot believe her following.

I was meh on all the winners.  The Silent Patient was terrible, so I have no idea how it won.  I think that's the only one I read this year that won.

[Gato]

Pretty predictably mediocre choices. At least Testaments and Normal People in the fiction category are good books.