The nominees for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards were announced this morning!
For anyone who doesn't use it, Goodreads is a website that helps readers track, rate, and review the books they've read, look up authors and books, and can serve as a social media platform for readers.
Every year they host the Goodreads Choice Awards, which showcases some of the most popular books that have come out each year — and readers are the judges.
There are 17 categories of books to vote in this year, including genres in adult fiction, young adult fiction, nonfiction, and children's books.
BPL doesn't own all of the books that have been nominated this year, but we always make sure to purchase the winners when voting is complete, if we don't already own that title.
The first round of voting is open until Nov. 28. The "Final Round" of voting is open from Nov. 30 to Dec. 5, with a narrowed down pool of books. Then the winners will be announced on Dec. 9.
If you're interested in voting, you must have a Goodreads account, which is free to sign up for. If you don't want an account, you can still follow along the awards on Goodreads, or check back with this blog for updates and find some popular book recommendations along the way!
Click HERE to visit Goodreads and see the full roster of award nominees.
Click on the headers below to see the nominated books that BPL owns. Click on any title to be redirected to our catalog, where you can learn more about the book or place a hold.
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
The Wish by Nicholas Sparks (Also available in Large Type and as a Book on CD)
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
We are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand (Also available in Large Type and as a Book on CD)
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
One Two Three by Laurie Frankel
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia Manansala
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (Also available in Large Type and as a Book on CD)
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell (Also available as a Book on CD)
Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapeña
The Push by Ashley Audrain (Also available in Large Type)
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
West with Giraffes by Lynda Ritledge
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian (also available in Large Type and as a Book on CD)
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (also available in Large Type and as a Book on CD)
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Personal Library by Marie Benedict (also available in Large Type and as a Book on CD)
How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
We are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
The Push by Ashley Audrain (also available in Large Type)
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Perfect on Paper by S. Gonzales
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Barnes
The Cousins by Karen M. McManus
Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
The Project by Courtney Summers
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal
Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
Gods & Monsters by Shelby Mahurin
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black
These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan
The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He
A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir
Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas
Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare
Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
A Vow so Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani
Unplugged by Gordon Korman (also available as a Playaway)
Aru Shah and the City of Gold by Roshani Chokshi
City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda
Ground Zero by Alan Gratz (also available as a Playaway)
