Good Reads Choice Awards 2019 part 1

 So I used Good Reads to keep track of my reading, for the last few years but since 2018 I had not done it so constantly. 

 Last year I saw the 2018 Good Choice awards but I did not vote. This year I wanted to take a look and see what books were chosen as contestants. Now I saw the list and was surprised, some were choices that I had assumed were there or at least when I see it I went like "Oh yeah this has been everywhere, at least due to popularity it makes sense to be among them."

 I still have not read most of the winners of last year. So next year I will try to read at least a few of each section. I am trying to read more of them from each category of the ones I am currently trying to get into. 

 There are 20 Categories. We will try to read from 16 of them, among those the only one I might give up while going on the way is Science and Technology, mainly due to availability. We will keep an eye on the runners up and on the winners.

 Fiction.

The gifted school a novel by Bruce Holsinger
Fleishman is in trouble by Taffy Brodesser akner
A woman is no man a novel by Etaf Rum
On early we’re briefly gorgeous a novel by ocean vuong
The overdue life of Amy Dyler by Kelly Harms
Olive Again a novel by Elizabeth Strout
Normal people a novel by Sally Rooney
The testaments by Margaret Atwood
When all Is said by Anne Griffin
Where the forest meets the stars by Glendy Vanderah
The last romantics by Tara Conklin
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Ask again yes by Mary Beth Keane
The most fun we ever had by Claire Lombardo
Red at the bone by Jaqueline Woodson





Mystery/Thriller

Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
I’ll never tell by Catherine McKenzie
The lost man by Jane Harper
The turn of the key by Ruth Ware
Miracle creek by Angie Kim
The chain by Adrian Mckinty
The family upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Run away by Harlan Coben
The whisper man by Alex North
Lock everyday by Riley Sager
An anonymous girl by greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
My sister, the serial killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Disappearing earth by Julia Phillips
The silent patient by Alex Michaelides 
The mother in law by Sally Hepworth



Historical Fiction

The lost girl of paris by Pam Jenoff
Summer of ‘69 by Elin Hilderbrand
City of girl by Elizabeth Gilbert
The huntress by Kate Quinn
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
The giver of stars by Jojo Moyes
The lost roses by Martha Hall Kelly
The dutch house by Ann Patchett
Once upon a river by Diane Setterfield
Daisy jones and the six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The night tiger by Yangsze
The water dancer by Ta Nehisi
What the wind knows by Amy Harmon
The nickel boys by Colson Whitehead 
The island of sea women by Lisa See
Nothingham by Nathan Makaryk
The book woman of troublesome creek by Kim Michele Richardson  
The summer country by Lauren Willing
This tender land by William Kent Krueguer
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris




Fantasy

The dragon republic by RF Kuang
The kingdom copper by SA Chakraborty
Of blood and bone by Nora Roberts
The starless sea by Erin Morgenstern
Magic for liars by Sarah Gailey
The ten thousand doors of January by Alix E Harrow
The red scrolls of magic by Cassandra clare
The winter of the witch by Katherine Arden
Middle game by Seanan McGuire
Black leopard red wolf by Marlon James
The priory of the orange tree by Samantha Shannon
Fire & blood by George RR Martin
God of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The ninth house by Leigh Bardugo 
Storm cursed by Patricia Briggs
A little hatred by Joe Abercrombie
Age of legend by Michael J Sullivan
The burning white by Brent Weeks
Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff
Kingdom of Copper by SA Chakraborty
This part at least I have only read a single book, Daisy and the six, so I have plenty to catch up. I will keep an eye on who the winners are. Once more I will not be able to vote because I did not read the books in the categories.
I do intend to read most of them, I had at least passing interest on them or at least now after seeing the short descriptions they seem intriguing enough. 

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