Goodreads has launched the opening round for their yearly awards for the best books just recently. I skimmed through the categories myself, yet already saw quite mixed reviews about the suggestions for this year’s nominees.
Some categories like poetry and children books were removed (yeah, you can say that children ain’t a target audience for the Goodreads yet this platform always seemed to be well rounded).
Graphic novels is also something that was removed unfortunately. Although these ain’t my cup of tea, I’m almost sure it must be upsetting for a large group of people.
I think it’s cause women are generally reading more than men and young people use goodreads more often than old people… so the group young women is a bit of the dominant group in the demographic… and indeed the popular books are popular
A lot of those books were the most read books on goodreads this year, so it’s not weird they are nominated