Goodreads best book of 2013 choice awards

Tuesday, December 3, 2013


The results are in and the winner for the Fantasy category is:


My pick, Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence finished in ninth place and Brian McClellan didn't win for Debut Goodreads author.  You can look at the complete list of the winners here.

What do you think?  Did you read Gaiman's book? Did you vote for the awards?

3 comments:

Antonakis said...

I voted the same books as you. But as another blogger mentioned today, the Goodreads Awards are unfortunately not awards for the best book anymore but about who is the most known and popular author irregardless of the quality of his book.
Also, there's that problem with polls, from the list of a dozen books the voter might have read just a couple so the vote will go to either of those. And if no book of those has been read, then the vote will go to the author he/she knows or thinks he/she might like.
All I say is meh... During the previous years I might have discovered a couple of books from the GR awards but this year the choices were rather disappointing I think.

Phil said...

Good analysis. This is almost always the problem with this kind of awards. I still find it interesting to watch but only up to a point. It ought not to be taken too seriously...

Even if I haven't read the book, I was kind of surprise to see Dan Brown with still so many fans...

And only 292 votes for Guy Gavriel Kay's River of Stars...

Ghost said...

His book got 3 times more votes than Memory of Light which placed second? Gaiman didn't just win, he crushed all opposition.

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