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.
That was the impression I got. I only read 2 books that are nominated, but both are the only one I read in their category, so I decided not to vote for them because I’d be comparing them to nothing. But I think this will be very common. Few people will have read 2+ books from any given category.