This is the official channel of the BookTube Prize, a literary award recognizing excellence in fiction and nonfiction. It is judged exclusively by members of the BookTube community-content creators and regular viewers.
For Fiction I have read The Covenant of Water, The Bee Sting, The Rachel Incident, Enter Ghost, and the Reformatory. The advancing books are well chosen! I have Northwoods on my Libby hold currently, but don’t have a desire to read Tom Lake or Wellness at this time
I have read several Non Fiction: Fever in the Heartland and How to Say Babylon. Both were very good. I am a Timothy Egan fan. We Were Once a Family is heartbreaking, but that author went so deep to research that tragedy. I want to read Eve
My previous favorites are out, but I've only read 1 of the remaining in non-fiction and none of the fiction, so I am super excited to see what my assignment holds for me over the next 2 months!
Although I am sad that The House of Doors didn't make it to the final six, I am delighted about Enter Ghost and Tom Lake. I'm excited to have the extra push now to read North Woods and The Rachel Incident.
This may be the first year where I don't have a clear sense of which book might win--in either division. Not sure if that means anything, but it just feels much closer than in past years.
This is the first I’ve heard of this prize. Great job by everyone involved. I love the nonfiction list-so strong. I’m not as excited about the fiction list. I would have loved to seen some of the other options.
I'm glad you found us. If you go to the website (booktubeprize.org) you can see all 48 books on the Results page, and at which stage they were eliminated. Alternately, you can watch all of the announcement videos here on RU-vid. Happy reading/viewing.
Appreciate the work from all involved. Congrats to the finalists. I have a question. How are the first round of 48 books selected? I ask both as an author and a book blogger? If an admin sees this, please tag me in the response.
It's described a bit more more on the about page of the booktube prize website, but the short version is that at the beginning of the year a big list of eligible works is sent by Robert to the judges to vote on what they most think should go forward into the competition with no requirement for having read any yet at that point.
Becca covered most of it. During the year, I compile a list of some 100 books or so in each division, based on reviews from a wide variety of sources. That list goes to all of the judges in that division in January for their votes. The list is then trimmed to the 48 books that start the event in February. If you go to the results page on the website (booktubeprize.org), you can see all of the books we started with and at what stage they were eliminated.
Depending on which group I’ve been assigned, I have only 2 or 3 books to read because I’ve been fortunate to have been assigned the other excellent finalist selections in earlier rounds. Great job, Robert… let’s go!
I missed the live announcement, and unfortunately I will have to miss the semifinals too. I will try to read a few books to tag along. I am glad that my favorite from round one, Eve, is still in the running.
Now that I’ve watched the results twice I’m still in shock my number one “Crossings” by Ben Goldfarb didn’t make it. It was a stacked group and my other three top picks made it. On to the semifinals ❤
Wait until I post the results for the whole competition in October and you'll see how crazy close this group was. The closest result in our 6-year history.
Oh I'm gutted that my favourite in Group C NF is out! That said, I lucked out with this group I thought all six of the books were no less than 4 stars.
Great to see my top two from my first round ballot make it to the semi-finals! Wish I had the time to participate in the semis, but will have to hang on until the final.
The semi-final will be the first round I take part in. And this year it's very exciting because I don't know any of the books that are still in the running. It's going to be an exciting few weeks and I'm looking forward to some great reading experiences. 🤓📚
Thank you and the judges for taking the time to do this! Just learned of this prize and love the methodology. Excited to see the finalists and winners.
I was looking forward to seeing these results. I judged Nonfiction Group D and my #2,3, and 4 made it through. While I'm disappointed that The Story of Art Without Men didn't get in there, the other three were all deserving books. Group B must have been really tough to judge. I've read 4 out of those 6 with a hold on another and two of the books that did not make it through earned 5 stars from me. I am happy with what did go through, but wow, that was a tough group and I can't wait to see the judge's rankings on those.
I haven't read them all yet, of course, but I'm already seeing some books eliminated that I thought would have made it through. But we all see them differently, which is part of the fun. Happy reading.
The nonfiction field is so hard to judge because the books are so good. But the fiction choices, lots of surprises there. I'm very glad to have a ballot this round, looking forward to all the books.
@@margarethaines9310 One thing I've learned over these 5+ years with the prize is that every book in every group will be someone's favorite and someone else's least favorite. That's one reason I like having large judge panels so we come to more of a consensus set of rankings in the end. All part of the fun, for me anyway.
Wow! This is fascinating! All of the books I read for my nonfiction round were good. Two of my picks made it through and one did not. Looking forward to reading some fiction for this round! Also, wanted to check. Now that results have been announced are we allowed to review the books we read for the octofinals?
Absolutely! If you check the Playlists on this channel, I try to pull in all the videos judges make after each round. A few of them are already published.
@@RunwrightReads absolutely Karen. This time two of my top three survived but my favourite Old God's Time went out. I guessed The Bee Sting would survive even though it wasn't for me. Now to watch some videos where people explain their reasons.
