It’s that time again: the opening round for the Goodreads Awards is here!!!

It’s that time again: the opening round for the Goodreads Awards is here!!!

Since 2009, Goodreads holds the Reader’s Choice Awards, so that we can all nominate and vote for our favorite books from that year, in different categories.

Readers can cast their votes in the following categories:

Fiction

Mystery & Thriller

Historical Fiction

Fantasy

Paranormal Fantasy

Science Fiction

Romance

Horror

Memoir & Autobiography

History & Biography

Nonfiction

Food & Cookbooks

Humor

Graphic Novel & Comics

Poetry

Debut Goodreads Author

Young Adult Fiction

Young Adult Paranormal

Middle Grade & Children’s

Picture Books

 

The 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards have 3 rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members.

Opening Round: November 04 – 09

Voting open to 15 official nominees, and write-in votes can be placed for any eligible book.

Semifinal Round: November 11 – 16

The top five write-in votes become official nominees, bringing the total to 20 nominees in each category.

Final Round: November 18 – 25

The field narrows to the top 10 books in each category, and members have one last chance to vote!

Winners will be announced December 03, 2013.

2013 Eligibility

Books published for the first time in the United States in English between November 26, 2012, and November 16, 2013, are eligible for the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards. Books published between November 17, 2013, and December 31, 2013, will be eligible for the 2014 awards.

We analyze statistics from the 250 million books added, rated, and reviewed on the site in 2013 to nominate 15 books in each category. Opening round official nominees must have an average rating of 3.50 or higher. Write-in votes may be cast for eligible books with any average rating, and write-in votes will be weighted by the book’s number of ratings to determine the top five books to be added as official nominees in the Semifinal Round. A book may be nominated in no more than one genre category, but can also be nominated in the Goodreads Author category. Only one book in a series may be nominated per category. An author may receive multiple nominations within a single category if he or she has more than one eligible series or more than one eligible stand-alone book.

 

So… what are you waiting for? Go cast your vote and support your favorite books and authors!!!

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80’s kid, 90’s teen. That sums it up quite nicely. Fan of almost everything. There’s not enough room in cyber-space to list everything (or every guy / fictional character I have the hots for), but I’ll try: Outlander book series ultimate fan (‘cuz JAMMF is just perfection), YA and romance novel avid reader, BSB fan to the death. Current TV Shows addiction: Game of Thrones, Arrow (I ship Olicity. Hard.), Glee, The Big Bang Theory. Past addictions: Friends, Spartacus, Smash, The Tudors, Battlestar Galactica, Lost (I’m an ending-hater). Future obsessions: Outlander on Starz, obviously. The Hot List: Gerard Butler, Theo James, Nick Carter, Henry Cavill, Chris Hemsworth, Jai Courtney, Stephen Amell, Hugh Jackman and I could keep going to infinity. Oh! And I believe in the God of Google!

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