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.
It would be nice to see them scrap all the categories take the 100 or so most read books this year, toss out any under 3 star and then make categories that fit those books to evenly split them - also I’d like the lists released in advance so you get a chance to read other books in the categories before voting - I dont mind if one year we have the very similar categories as long as that’s what people are reading but it should be based off that including older books rather than all the stuff pushed out to meet deadlines or just the next in a series from a popular author