Die siegreichen Bücher der Goodreads Choice Awards 2021

Announcing the winners of the 13th Annual Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book awards decided by readers. Congratulations to the best books of the year! (via)

Die Plattform Goodreads dreht sich vollkommen um das Lesen von Büchern und erlaubt es den Nutzern unter anderem sich mit anderen Fans diese Tätigkeit auszutauschen oder Bücher zu bewerten. Ein Teil des Angebots dieser Plattform besteht aus den jährlichen Goodreads Choice Awards, die im Grunde herausfinden sollen, welche Bücher aus einem jeweiligen Jahr laut den Nutzern eigentlich am besten sind. Diese Preisverleihung besteht dabei dann aus 17 Kategorien, dessen Sieger vor einigen Tagen offiziell enthüllt wurden.

Das Ganze ist meiner Meinung nach immer eine gute Chance dafür, um auf das vergangene Jahr zurückzublicken und möglicherweise verpasste Bücher ausfindig zu machen. Zumindest habe ich in den letzten Jahren das eine oder andere gute Buch gefunden, welches ich ansonsten verpasst hätte. Dadurch werfe ich sogar einen Blick auf die Genres, die mir normalerweise nicht unbedingt gefallen. Die besten Bücher aus unpassenden Kategorien sind schließlich noch immer sehr oft gelobte Werke.

Von den Siegern im Jahr 2021 habe ich selbst bisher nur Project Hail Mary/ Der Astronaut von Andy Weir gelesen. Ich kann voll und ganz nachvollziehen, warum dieses Werk in der Kategorie Science Fiction auf dem ersten Platz gelandet ist. Das Buch verbindet eine gute Geschichte mit verständlichen wissenschaftlichen Erklärungen und Elementen einer Buddy-Cop-Story. Das Ganze ist eine durchaus kreative Mischung, die meiner Meinung nach auch äußerst gelungen geschrieben ist. Wer Science Fiction mag, der sollte sich dieses Buch auf jeden Fall durchlesen.

Best Fiction: Beautiful World, Where Are You

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them.

Best Mystery & Thriller: The Last Thing He Told Me

We all have stories we never tell. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.

Best Historical Fiction: Malibu Rising

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever.

Best Fantasy: A ​Court of Silver Flames

Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she’s struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can’t seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it.

Best Romance: People We Meet on Vacation

Poppy and Alex have been best friends since forever, and each year they take a vacation together—a glorious, uncomplicated summer holiday. Except that last year it got complicated, and this year it’s weirdsies for all. Emily Henry takes home this year’s Best Romance for her insightful investigation into that unknowable gray area between friendship and true love.

Best Science Fiction: Project Hail Mary

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

 

Best Horror: The Final Girl Support Group

Author Grady Hendrix has carved out his own unique domain in horror by playing around with the genre’s blurry edges and recurring tropes. His latest novel—and winner of this year’s Best Horror award—considers the scary movie concept of the final girl, the one victim who fights back, defeats the killer, and lives to see another day. Hendrix’s open question: What if some of these women got together?

Best Humor: Broken

As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it.

Best Nonfiction: The Anthropocene Reviewed

Adapted from his acclaimed podcast series, John Green’s uniquely structured collection of essays combines history, science, and memoir to create a new kind of nonfiction approach—brainy and compelling. His topic? Our very own geological era, the Anthropocene, in which human activity has been the dominant influence on the planetary environment.

Best Memoir & Autobiography: Crying in H Mart

Korean American author-musician Michelle Zauner—she of the indie rock initiative Japanese Breakfast—was one of publishing’s biggest success stories this year. Her deeply felt memoir addresses love and loss, art and music, and the abiding weirdness of growing up in the 21st century.

Best History & Biography: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

This year’s winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for History/Biography, Empire of Pain is an exhaustively researched profile of the Sackler family, the aristocratic American clan that made its fortune making and marketing the painkiller OxyContin. Patrick Radden Keefe is a master of the kind of narrative reporting style that brings novelistic intensity to rigorous nonfiction reporting.

Best Graphic Novels & Comics: Lore Olympus: Volume One

Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love—witness what the gods do after dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of mythology’s most well-known stories from creator Rachel Smythe. Featuring a brand-new, exclusive short story, Smythe’s original Eisner-nominated web-comic Lore Olympus brings the Greek Pantheon into the modern age with this sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel.

Best Poetry: The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe. Her poem “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” can now be cherished in this special gift edition. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry.

Best Debut Novel: The Spanish Love Deception

Spanish author Elena Armas brings several new twists to a classic rom-com setup with this debut novel, which has already won a devoted following in the Goodreads community. Catalina Martin is taking her new American boyfriend to her sister’s wedding in a small Spanish town. Aaron Blackford is tall, handsome, and supremely aggravating. Alas, he’s not actually Catalina’s boyfriend. T

Best Young Adult Fiction: Firekeeper’s Daughter

Winner of this year’s award for Young Adult Fiction, Firekeeper’s Daughter introduces a compelling new heroine to the YA scene. As a biracial and unenrolled tribal member, 18-year-old Daunis Fontaine feels like an outsider both on and off the local Ojibwe reservation. But she soon finds a higher purpose when she witnesses a terrible murder—and decides to go undercover with her own investigation.

 

Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction: Rule of Wolves

Perennial contender Leigh Bardugo earns her second GCA win with Rule of Wolves, the concluding book in her King of Scars duology, set in the innovative and sprawling Grishaverse. Bardugo’s nuanced stories and elaborate world-building continue to break new ground in YA fantasy, and she’s expanding the empire, too: Netflix’s Shadow and Bone series is likely the first of many TV and film adaptations.

Best Middle Grade & Children’s: Daughter of the Deep

Superstar author Rick Riordan continues his historical GCA winning streak with Daughter of the Deep, the story of budding underwater explorer Ana Dakkar and a school field trip gone seriously awry. Bonus trivia: This is Riordan’s 11th consecutive victory in this category. Bonus bonus trivia: Daughter of the Deep is a tribute to Jules Verne’s 19th-century classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

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