After being inspired by Emily Fox on Youtube I have decided to do her Goodreads Reading challenge, by taking the winners and runners up from the Goodreads Choice Awards and adding them to be 2021 TBR.
So, the first category; Best Fiction the winner was The Midnight Library by Matt Haig which I have already read this year and loved. Of the runners up there are two that I will be reading, My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell and The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel.
In Mystery & Thrillers the winner was The Guest List by Lucy Foley which I will be reading, the runner up Home Before Dark by Riley Sager I have already read but I will be adding the following books to my TBR; The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James, One by One by Ruth Ware and The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton.
In Historical Fiction the winner was The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett which I haven’t heard much about and from the runners up I will be adding these books to my TBR; The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd and The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore.
In Fantasy the winner was House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas which is definitely going on my TBR along with, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4) by Brandon Sanderson, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) by N.K. Jemisin, The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow, The Empire of Gold (Daevabad Trilogy, #3) by S.A. Chakraborty, The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3) by R.F. Kuang, The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1) by Mark Lawrence, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle #1) by Nghi Vo, The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire, #1) by Andrea Stewart and The Trouble With Peace (The Age of Madness, #2) by Joe Abercrombie.
In Romance the winner was From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout which is the only book I will be reading from this category.
In Science Fiction the winner was To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini which will be on my TBR with, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2) by Tamsyn Muir, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells and A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2) by Hank Green.
In Horror the winner was Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia which will be joined on my TBR by The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix, The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson, The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark and The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson.
I won’t be reading anything in Humour, Non-Fiction, Memoir and Autobiography, History and Biography, Science and Technology, Food and Cookbooks, Graphic Novels and Comics or Poetry since I don’t read anything from these categories.
In Debut Novels the winner was Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid which I have no interest in reading but I will be reading Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas from this category.
From Young Adult Fiction the winner was Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo and I will also be reading One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2) by Karen M. McManus, The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3) by Maureen Johnson and The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper.
In Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction the winner was The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black and along with the runner up A Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes by Suzanne Collins I have no interest in reading. I did attempt to read ABOSAS this year and DNF’d it at 50%. However, I will be reading Chain of Gold (The Last Hours, #1) by Cassandra Clare, Midnight Sun (Twilight, #5) by Stephenie Meyer, Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha, #2) by Tomi Adeyemi, Starsight (Skyward, #2) by Brandon Sanderson, Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust, The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu, These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1) by Chloe Gong, Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle, #2) by Amie Kaufman and The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller.
I also won’t be reading anything in Middle Grade & Children’s or Picture Books.
My TBR for 2021 just from this challenge stands at 46 books which have a combined total of 20,712 pages. I also have quite a few books that are a part of a series and in the case of most of them I either haven’t started the series or I am not caught up with it so those books will also be added to my TBR along with all the books I need to read for blog tours and other things like that.
If you know of any books published this year that I should read, drop them in the comments.
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