This post is part of my year end "Attack of the Best Lists" coverage. To see every post in my "Attack of the Best Lists 2024" coverage [and more backlist best of the year options] you can click here.
The final results of the Goodreads' 2024 Reader's Choice Awards were announced today. You can go here to see the finalists and winners.
This is a reader focused best list. We haven't had that yet here on the blog, and this designation is IMPORTANT. It is important to make sure we look at professional reviewers, those trying to sell books, AND real life readers. If we lose sight of them in this process, we lose sight of our mission in the process-- to match books with the best reader for that book.
And what better way than to start our work matching readers with their next great read, than by turning to other readers who have already let us know what books they have most enjoyed? And we not only have the winners here, but the finalists as well.
There are A LOT of favorites from real readers, crowdsourced in numbers we, at libraries, could never garner. So many great suggestions from the reader perspective. We can dig into books that readers flocked to in the greatest numbers. That data dump onto this easy to navigate page, in and of itself, is extremely useful to us.
Here is that link to the Goodreads Choice Award page. Scroll down and notice that they have super easy access to the award going back to 2011. Use the last 2-5 years in particular to find suggestions that you know were deemed "Best" (or were in the running for that title) over the past few years. They still make a great read AND you probably have all of them on the shelf to take home immediately.
A reader can't get their hands on one of the best Mystery titles of 2024. That's okay. You can place a hold and then show them the list of 2023's Mystery options. It's one extra click for you and they will love the options and your great customer service. Trust me. I have done it myself.
That marks the end of this week of Best List catch-up. I will have more to share next week, but tomorrow we switch hears as I have HUGE news about the latest version of Actively Anti-Racist Service to Leisure Readers coming to a computer screen near you in February 2025.
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Book lists like this explain why Trump was so handily elected. The average (and even above-average) American is tired of this victim culture crap.
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