Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 Semifinalists

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Open voting has started in the semifinal round of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 and will continue until November 17. There are 20 categories overall.

Five popular write-ins have been added to the 15 books listed in the opening round. Here are the titles readers lifted onto the ballot in the primary categories of genre interest – Best Fantasy, Best Science Fiction, and Best Horror.

BEST FANTASY

  • Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle, #3) by Jay Kristoff
  • A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
  • The Burning White by Brent Weeks
  • Age of Legend (The Legends of the First Empire, #4) by Michael J. Sullivan
  • Holy Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #3) by Mark Lawrence

BEST SCIENCE FICTION

  • The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
  • Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
  • Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
  • Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn, #3) by Timothy Zahn

BEST HORROR

  • The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
  • Bunny by Mona Awad
  • The Need by Helen Phillips
  • Petra’s Ghost by C.S. O’Cinneide
  • The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

There also are some genre works in the Best Graphic Novels and Comics, Best Young Adult Fiction, Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, Best Middle Grade & Children’s categories.

Note: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments has been placed in the Fiction category.

[Thanks to JJ for the screencaps.]

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2 thoughts on “Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 Semifinalists”

  1. A couple of extra notes (slightly edited) that I posted to Reddit earlier:

    Gideon the Ninth was also added to the debut novel category.

    Whilst all of the write-ins for the SF&F categories are fairly popular books, I noticed that one of the successful write-ins in the historical fiction category – which might be fantasy-adjacent, because it’s had a few blog posts on tor.com – only has 330 ratings. This makes me wonder if perhaps you don’t need that many people doing a write-in to get into this round.

    Something I didn’t post to Reddit, because I hadn’t – and still haven’t at time of commenting – had chance to properly investigate, is that (at least) a couple of the successful write-ins – namely Here and Now and Then in SF, and Nottingham in historical fiction – are by authors part of a group/organization/promotion/not-sure-what-it-is-exactly of debut authors. Members of this group – although neither of these write-in authors, I believe – had been spotted earlier this year doing some low-level mutual nomination/logrolling on a “Hugo 2020 Eligible Novels” Goodreads list that a few Filers have a presence at.

  2. Wow. Thanks for posting. I didn’t even know I’d made it into the semi-finals for Petra’s Ghost until I saw this. I find it interesting that in the Horror category all the authors who were elevated to the semi-finals by reader “write-ins” were women — a demographic that was not well represented in the original list.

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