Voting has begun in the final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards: The Best Books 2024 and will continue through December 1.

In the final round the field narrows from 15 to the top 10 books in each category. All registered Goodreads members can vote. Winners will be announced December 5, 2024.

Listed below are the nominees in the Fantasy, Romantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, and Young Adult Fantasy categories. There are also some works of genre interest in the Debut Novel, and Audiobook categories. And this time I have taken the comments to heart and typed the titles ahead of the screenshots of the covers.

FANTASY

• Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
• Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff
• Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
• The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness
• The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
• The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
• The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
• The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

ROMANTASY

• A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
• Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
• A Touch of Chaos by Margaret St. Clair
• Born of Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
• Phantasma by Kaylie Smith
• Quicksilver by Callie Hart
• The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
• When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
• Zodiac Academy: Restless Stars by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

SCIENCE FICTION

• Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
• Extinction by Douglas Preston
• I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
• Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• The Family Experiment by John Marrs
• The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
• The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

HORROR

• Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
• Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
• Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
• I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
• Murder Road by Simone St. James
• Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert
• The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
• We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
• What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
• You Like It Darker by Stephen King

YOUNG ADULT FANTASY

• Wisteria by Adalyn Grace
• All This Twister Glory by Tahereh Mafi
• Defiant by Brandon Sanderson
• Don’t Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews
• Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli
• Reckless by Lauren Roberts
• Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
• The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black
• Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez