Goodreads Awards Category Removal Sparks Outcry

The annual awards celebrate the most popular titles on the book-tracking platform by allowing users to vote on their favorites across several genres and formats. This year marks 15 years since the awards' inception in 2009 and the milestone was marked with new changes to the number of categories.

Goodreads told PW in a statement, "Our goal is to have the Goodreads Choice Awards reflect the books that are most popular with our members, based on the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on Goodreads each year. As part of this, we have made adjustments to our categories over time, and, this year, we will not include Children's & Middle Grade, Poetry, and Graphic Novels as separate categories.