2023 Goodreads Choice Awards Reading Challenge
2023 Goodreads Choice Awards Reading Challenge
By: Brittany Shields
The 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards have been announced!
I’ve listed the winner of each category in bold and listed some of the other nominees for each category as well. A full list of the nominees and descriptions can be found at the link above.
My goal is to read at least one book from each category as these are supposedly the best of the best! We shall see if they’ve earned their spots.
The ones I plan to read will have an * before the title. All books I’ve reviewed will be clickable links to my reviews.
There are a few changes to the categories this year as compared to other years. There is no poetry category or middle-grade/children’s book categories. I’m actually okay with this because I didn’t really get to those categories anyway.
They also got rid of the graphic novel category which is a bit of a bummer. That was always an interesting category and usually didn’t take long to read!
Last, they added a Romantasy category because apparently that’s popular now. I’m not entirely sure how they separate regular fantasy from this one…
To see my challenge from last year click HERE.
To see my list of Best Books of 2023 click HERE.
To see my other reading challenges click HERE.
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Fiction Winner: Yellow Face by R.F. Kuang
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
*The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand
Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
The Connelly’s of County Down by Tracey Lange
Mystery/Thriller Winner: The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Bright Young Woman by Jessica Knoll
*All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
Homecoming by Kate Morton
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
Historical Fiction Winner: Weyward by Emilia Hart
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin
*The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
The Wind Knows by Name by Isabel Allende
The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel
Romantasy Winner: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
*Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent
Sorrow and Starlight by Caroline Peckham
The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon
The Hanging City by Charlie N. Holmberg
Romance Winner: *Happy Place by Emily Henry
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
Things We Hide from the Light by Lucy Score
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Wildfire by Hannah Grace
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Fantasy Winner: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
*Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab
Starling House by Alix Harrow
The Book that Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
Science Fiction: In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
*Light Bringer by Pierce Brown
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
The Marriage Act by John Marrs
System Collapse by Martha Wells
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Horror Winner: Holly by Stephen King
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
Rouge by Mona Awad
My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon
The September House by Carissa Orlando
Young Adult Fantasy/Science Fiction Winner: Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber
The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare
Powerless by Lauren Roberts
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
These Infinite Threads by Tahereh Mafi
Young Adult Fiction Winner: *Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood
The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Five Survive by Holly Jackson
Thieves’ Gambit (Thieves’ Gambit #1) by Kayvion Lewis
One of Us is Back by Karen M. McManus
Immortality by Dana Schwartz
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Debut Novel Winner: Weyward by Emilia Hart
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
Maame by Jessica George
The September House by Carissa Orlando
Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Nonfiction Winner: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Butts by Heather Radke
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
8 Rules of Love by Jay Shetty
On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
Memoirs & Autobiography Winner: The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Spare by Prince Harry
Pageboy by Elliot Page
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar
*All My Knotted Up Life by Beth Moore
Paris the Memoir by Paris Hilton
Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson
History & Biography Winner: *The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts by Bill O'Reilly
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II by Lena Andrews
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill by Brad Meltzer
Humor Winner: Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond by Henry Winkler
Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford
Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby
Black Friend: Essays by Ziwe
*How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key
It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward by Elizabeth Passarella
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