Goodreads Best of the Year

[Anonymous No.12180268]

Goodreads finally published the results of the best books of 2018. What do you think, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.12180287]

the herd starterpack

[Anonymous No.12180306]

why are books so s o y today

[Anonymous No.12180311]

>>12180306
We live in a soi era bby

[Anonymous No.12180328]

>>12180268
Pure roastiecore

[Anonymous No.12180333]

>all those female authors

[Anonymous No.12180342]

How many of these are feminist books?

[Anonymous No.12180346]

Oh wow goodreads has shit taste women amiright 300 replies incoming

That isn’t even from this year.

[Anonymous No.12180352]

>>12180268
> popular vote

A brainlet like you might not understand that, but this whole board becomes totally useless the moment you decide non-personal “best of” lists are meaningful.

[Anonymous No.12180429]

>>12180352
Who are you referring to, friend

[Anonymous No.12180436]

>>12180429
Probably me but not sure

[Anonymous No.12180568]

>reading female authors

[Anonymous No.12180571]

Why would you read new books when there are lifetimes of previously published books that have already been sifted through to pick out the diamonds?

[Anonymous No.12180579]

>>12180268
there are two stephen king novels and mr. fuckig rodgers. why should i care what book facebook says?

[Anonymous No.12180636]

>>12180571
Because roasties have a very limited vocabulary and can't handle any deviation from the highly analytical word order of modern English. They also have no appreciation of etymology and therefore will have a very hard time understanding older writing in context.

[Anonymous No.12180639]

>>12180268
Children of Blood and Bone has a We Wuz Kangz vibe to its cover.

[Anonymous No.12180645]

>>12180268
>The hate u give
>u
>in a title
Absolutely disgusting

[Anonymous No.12180658]

That dinosaurs book seems interesting. Only one I would read

[Anonymous No.12180669]

>>12180268
Damn I don't visit any other board except lit and sci. Why the fuck is 4channel censored now?

S O Y
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Y

[Anonymous No.12180675]

It's as awful as expected. I can know without looking that every one of those books has a shit ton of .gifs in the review section. Women are such shit.

[Anonymous No.12180679]

I dont care.

[Anonymous No.12180692]

>>12180268
>no Killing Commendatore
>King multiple times
>all that other garbage
I mean, to be expected, but their offices should still be nuked.

[Ann No.12180701]

I may read "Children of blood and bone", toughts?
Also educated

[Anonymous No.12180705]

>>12180268
>nigger books
>muh VAGINA women respectance books
>shitty fantasy novels
literature has been cancelled

[Anonymous No.12180712]

>>12180645
Literally degenerate language.

[Ann No.12180714]

>>12180705
>>12180268
>>12180306
those are the most commercial and friendly books, that's why they get so many votes. It's about making people buy them and feel happy, not writing decent literature

[Anonymous No.12180754]

>>12180306
Peterson was nominated for the best non-fiction

>>12180636
I like sniffing my own farts too

[Anonymous No.12180788]

>>12180754
>Peterson was nominated for the best non-fiction
Point still stands.

[Anonymous No.12181281]

How's Circe? Was curious about song of achillies.

[Anonymous No.12181293]

>>12180754
>Peterson was nominated for the best non-fiction
Well that changes everything

[Anonymous No.12181297]

>>12180268
test

[Anonymous No.12181519]

>>12180268

>The Hate U Give
>68,489 votes
>A Dance with Dragons
>8,705 votes

lol what went wrong?

[Anonymous No.12181545]

>>12180568
>Woolf
>Plath
>Austen
>Bronte

I'm cringing so hard right now. Insecure little boy.

[Anonymous No.12181557]

>>12180268
Are ''young adult books'' simply books which target adults who refuse to acknowledge the fact that they aren't teenagers anymore?

[Anonymous No.12181574]

>>12181281
Circe is a more in-depth look beyond the basic mythology. I feared a feminist slant upon starting it but there was not one. There is a lot of emphasis on isolation and loneliness, also focuses on the cruelties of the gods/suffering of mortals.

[Anonymous No.12181800]

Hey man, that dinosaurs one looks alright.
Everything else needs to be used as kindling for a bonfire, along with the authors, and the readers.

[Anonymous No.12181840]

Is this any good?

[Anonymous No.12182353]

I'm actually looking forward to reading Circe, but most of the "popular" books on goodreads are just feel good millenial fluff, erotica for 45 y/o house wives, and some YA fantasy that completely rips off other more successful book(s).

[Anonymous No.12182861]

>>12180568
Ursula is looking down on you from heaven and frowning at your insignificant intellect

[Anonymous No.12183072]

>>12180268
Okay, totally obvious Hate U Give won an award for being a "black book." What criteria even goes into the category "Best of the Best" when a book that wins in no other category is selected as "Best of the Best?" That isn't how it works, unless if a book already won then it is disqualified from winning again. In which case, Hate U Give would not be considered "Best of the Best", it'd be "Worst of the Best."

This is, in my opinion, pretty blatant pandering..

[Anonymous No.12183203]

>>12183072

>what criteria even goes into the category "best of the best"

They took all the previous Goodreads Choice awards winners of the past ten years and put them in a category together.

One of the things about Goodreads is that there's about 5,000 people who read "real literature," about 10-20,000 people who are fantasy/sci-fi nerds the type of which you could probably find in /sffg/, and about a million people who think John Green and J.K. Rowling are the best writers of all time. That's why one year the SCREENPLAY for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them won best fantasy book.

It IS interesting that The Hate U Give managed to beat out The Fault in Our Stars, though. Apparently pop book fans don't develop long-term attachments to the books they like.

[Anonymous No.12183372]

>21 categories in which books can be nominated for Goodreads 2018 awards
>5 of the 21 category winners are men (23.8%)
>2 of these 5 male category winners are Steven King...a mediocre writer whom is automatically handed awards by normies because they never bother to look beyond the front desk of B&N for horror/thriller/mystery
>Remaining 3 of the 5 include a book about dinosaurs, a biography of Mr. Rogers, and some Young Adult shut nobody cares about.

ABSOLUTE CANCER