The Goodreads Choice Awards are back! The opening round began on November 12, 2024, and will end on November 24, 2024. The Goodreads Choice Awards program, which began in 2009, allows readers to vote for their favorite books released in the given year. It continues to be a fan favorite.

Important dates:

Opening round: November 12 – November 24

Final round: November 26 – December 1

Winners announced: December 5

There are 15 categories in total: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, Romance, Romantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Debut Novel, Audiobook, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, and History and Biography. When the winners are announced, a book from each category will be awarded.

Books nominated in each Category:

Fiction: 

• I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
• Playground by Richard Powers
• Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
• Colored Television by Danzy Senna
• Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
• Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
• Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors 
• Sandwich by Catherine Newman
• Swan Song (Nantucket Series #4) by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
• Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo
• Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
• Good Material by Dolly Alderton
• Tell Me Everything (Amgash Series #5) by Elizabeth Strout
• All Fours by Miranda July
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
• Real Americans by Rachel Khong

Historical Fiction:

• The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman
• Anita de Monte Laughs last by Xoxhitl Gonzalez
• The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
• The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez 
• There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
• By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
• James by Percival Everett
• The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn
• The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
• Long Island (Eilis Lacey Series #2) by Colm Toibin 
• The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
• The Booklover’s Library by Madeline Martin
• Behind Every Good Man by Sara Goodman Condino
• Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate
• The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
• The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
• The Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz Williams
• The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mystery & Thriller 

• Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
• Middle of the Night By Riley Sager
• How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
• Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
• All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
• House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen
• The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
• First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
• The Teacher by Freida McFadden
• Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose
• The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
• The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid Series #2) by Nita Prose
• The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave
• The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
• We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
• Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
• Not What She Seems by Yasmin Angoe
• The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak

Romance: 

• Wild Love by Elsie Silver
• A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
• The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
• Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy Series #2) by Brynne Weaver
• This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
• The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
• This Could Be Us (Skyland Series #2) by Kennedy Ryan
• The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor Series #2) by Laurie Gilmore
• Swift and Saddled (Rebel Blue Ranch Series #2) by Lyla Sage
• How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
• Daydream (Maple Hills Series #3) by Hannah Grace
• Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
• Bride by Ali Hazelwood
• Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• King of Sloth (Kings of Sin Series #4) by Ana Huang
• Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
• Play Along (Windy City Series) by Liz Tomforde
• The Love of My Afterlife by Kristy Greenwood
• The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

Romantasy: 

• When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
• A Promise of Peridot (The Sacred Stones Series #2) by Kate Golden
• Gold (The Plated Prisoner Series #5) by Raven Kennedy
• House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City Series #3) by Sarah J. Mass
• The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields
• Fate of the Sun King (Artefacts of Ouranos Series #3) by Nisha J. Tuli
• Apprentice of the Villain (Assistant of the Villain Series #2) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
• The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
• Phantasma by Kaylie Smith
• Restless Stars (Zodiac Academy #9) by Caroline Peckham
• Born of Blood and Ash (Flesh and Fire Series #4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• The Games Gods Play By Abigail Owen
• A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
• A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft
• Faebound by Saara El-Arifi
• Quicksilver by Callie Hart
• The Veiled Kingdom by Holly Renee
• A Crown This Cold and Heavy by Stacia Stark
• Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas
• A Touch of Chaos (Hades X Persephone Saga Series #4) by Scarlett St. Clair

Fantasy:

• Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland
• The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
• An Academy of Liars by Alexis Henderson
• The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
• The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls Series #5) by Deborah Harkness
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark
• A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
• A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
• The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
• When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
• The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
• The Night Ends with Fire by K.X. Song
• Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles Series #2) by T.J. Klune
• The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
• Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire Series #2) by Jay Kristoff
• Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde Series #2) by Heather Fawcett

Science Fiction:

• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
• Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
• Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
• The Family Experiment by John Marrs
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
• Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn
• The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
• In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
• Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
• Baby X by Kira Peikoff
• Absolution (Southern Reach Series #4) by Jeff VanderMeer
• Extinction by Douglas Preston
• The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad
• The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
• Red Side Story (Shades of Grey Series #2) by Jasper Fforde
• Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon Series #2) by Waubgeshig Rice
• Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

Horror: 

• This Cursed House by Del Sandeen
• Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
• My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen
• A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez
• The Book of Witching by C.J. Cooke
• The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
• House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
• So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
• Murder Road by Simone St. James
• I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
• Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
• Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina
• What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier Series #2) by T. Kingfisher
• Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville
• The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
• Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
• The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy #3) by Stephen Graham Jones
• Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert
• You Like It Darker by Stephen King
• We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

Debut Novel: 

• The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
• Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner
• The Things We Didn’t Know by Elba Iris Perez
• Victim by Andrew Boryga
• The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
• Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
• Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung
• Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
• How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
• The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
• Glorious Exploits By Ferdia Lennon
• The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava
• Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshops by Hwang Bo-Reum
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• We Used to Live Here by Msrcus Kliewer
• Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi
• Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
• All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore

Audio Books:

• From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley
• Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles Series #2) by T.J. Klune
• We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
• Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
• First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
• Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
• It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasula
• Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg
• Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell
• James by Percival Everett
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten
• Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Maybe This Time by Cara Bastone
• Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

Young Adult Fantasy: 

• So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors #1) by Kamilah Cole
• The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
• Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment #2) by Rebecca Ross
• Wisteria (Belladonna #3) by Adalyn Grace
• Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile #2) by Isabel Lbanez
• For She Is Wrath by Emily Varga
• Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew
• Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen
• The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste
• Heir by Sabaa Tahir
• Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier
• Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy #2) by Lauren Roberts
• Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
• The Darkness Within Us (The Shadows Between Us #2) by Tricia Levenseller
• All This Twisted Glory (This Woven Kingdom #3) by Tahereh Mafi
• Don’t Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews
• Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek
• The Prosoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology #2) by Holly Black
• Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli
• Defiant (Skyward Series #4) by Brandon Sanderson

Young Adult Fiction:

• Icarus by K. Ancrum
• The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
• Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
• Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abike-lyimide
• The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game Series) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• That’s Not My Name by Megan Lally
• Thirsty by Jas Hammonds
• A Thousand Broken Pieces (A Thousand Boy Kisses #2) by Tillie Cole
• A Banh Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen
• Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies #2) by Lynn Painter
• I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
• When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson
• If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2) by Laura Nowlin
• Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce
• Under the Surface by Diana Urban
• Betting on You by Lynn Painter
• Death of Morning House by Maureen Johnson
• A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur
• Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper #5) by Alice Oseman
• Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa

Non-Fiction:

• All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen
• Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
• Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire by Ashley Spencer
• Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal
• Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson
• It’s Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told) by Karen Tang
• How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva
• The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein
• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evanglicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
• I’m Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America by Rebecca Little
• Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman
• Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation by Jen Gunter
• The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
• Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham
• The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
• Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
• The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice by Dan Slepian
• Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell
• One in a Millennial: On Friendships, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting in by Kate Kennedy

Memoir: 

• Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
• Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
• Wanted: Toddler’s Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser
• Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
• The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
• There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
• My Side of the River by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
• I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I’m Going to Anyway] by Chelsea Devantez
• An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley
• Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg
• The Manicurist’s Daughter by Susan Lieu
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten
• The Wives: A Memoir by Simone Gorrindo
• The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
• Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
• The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly Bishop
• Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo
• A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings
• Here After by Amy Lin

History & Biography: 

• The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon
• The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
• Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton
• The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
• The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre
• When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow
• Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong by Katie Gee Salisbury
• The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos
• When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff
• Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Sheppard
• American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond by Jeremy Dauber
• The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston
• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
• Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss
• By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle
• Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan
• Eden Undone: A True Story of Sec, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler
• The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel
• Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

Vote for your favorite books! Which ones do you think will win? Come back on November 26th to see which nominees advance to the final round.

Goodreads link: goodreads.com/…oiceawards/best-books-2024