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The best nominees of the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards

11/10/2014

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It's that time of year again: the Goodreads Choice Awards! With the semifinal round now open for voting, I spent my morning hours researching the contenders and casting my ballots. 

If you're unfamiliar with Goodreads and its Choice Awards, let me catch you up to speed. Goodreads is a social cataloging website and every book lover's dream. The site allows you search an extensive user-populated database of books, annotations and reviews. You can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists, or create your own groups of book suggestions and discussions. Sounds pretty stellar, right? Right!

The Goodreads Choice Awards is an annual contest where Goodreads users vote on their favorite books in a variety of categories. Historically, the winners of the contest go on to be extremely successful, but who is to say whether it's causation or correlation? Here's a few of this year's nominees and their categories.
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This year's competition brought a slew of new books onto my radar (and onto my to-read list)! Here are the stories I hope to see in the next round of voting. To learn more about each book, simply click the title below. I'll let you read the description for yourself – maybe you'll discover why I selected these nominees! Have any favorites of your own? Share them with me in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter using #TessaFoxReads. Happy voting! 
FICTION:
The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

MYSTERY & THRILLER: 
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

HISTORIAL FICTION: 
Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal

FANTASY: 
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

ROMANCE: 
Transcendence by Shay Savage

SCIENCE FICTION: 
California by Edan Lepucki

HORROR: 
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

HUMOR: 
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Lena Dunham

NONFICTION: 
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg

MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: 
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY: 
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II by Vicki Croke

BUSINESS BOOKS: 
The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change by Adam Braun

FOOD & COOKBOOKS: 
Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal by Ava Chin

GRAPHIC NOVELS & COMICS: 
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

POETRY: 
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood

DEBUT GOODREADS AUTHORS: 
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

YOUNG ADULT FICTION: 
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

YOUNG ADULT FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: 
Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

MIDDLE GRADE & CHILDREN'S: 
El Deafo by Cece Bell

PICTURE BOOKS: 
What Do You Do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada
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    Tessa Fox is the Early Literacy Librarian at the Kenosha Public Library. After working in the journalism and publishing fields, Tessa decided to dedicate her life to books and public librarianship, and went back to school to get her Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she graduated in December 2016. Tessa has been working in public libraries since 2014. Disclaimer: The views expressed here are mine alone and do not reflect those of my employer.


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