predicting the goodreads choice awards 2024 (Fantasy)

Every year the Goodreads Choice Awards come out.

And every year they're absolutely wrong.

BUT I still think it's really fun to see which titles are selected, vote, kvetch (complain), and reflect on the most popular books that came out that year.

I know barely anything about what's hot in the Mystery/Thriller circles, or Historical Fiction, or Contemporary, but I do at least feel like I have a general understanding of Fantasy and Romantasy hits.

Some of these are bestselling authors, or books in a series that have been on the list before. Largely I think that ratings and people putting it on their GR shelves are the main contributing factors. But, more or less, these are my top 14 predictions!

Things I know to be true about the Goodreads Choice selection process that will factor in to my picks:

1. Each nominee must have at least a 3.5 average rating

2. An invisible, unknown body of Goodreads electors (likely employees) looks at the genre tags, number of ratings/reviews, and number of people who have the book marked as Want to Read.

Assumptions I'm making:

1. Goodreads will repeat the 2023 new category of Romantasy so there should not be crossover with the Fantasy list.