2012 Rules & Eligibility

The 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards have three rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. Winners will be announced December 04, 2012.

Opening Round: October 30 - 10

Voting open to 15 official nominees, and write-in votes can be placed for any eligible book (see eligibility below).

Semifinal Round: November 12 - 18

The top five write-in votes become official nominees, bringing the total to 20 nominees in each category. Additional write-ins no longer accepted.

Final Round: November 19 - 27

The field narrows to the top 10 books in each category, and members have one last chance to vote!

2012 Eligibility

Books published for the first time in the United States in English between November 29, 2011, and November 24, 2012, are eligible for the 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards. Books published between November 25, 2012, and December 31, 2012, will be eligible for the 2013 awards.

We analyze statistics from the 250 million books added, rated, and reviewed on the site in 2012 to nominate 15 books in each category. Opening round official nominees must have an average rating of 3.50 or higher. Write-in votes may be cast for eligible books with any average rating, and write-in votes will be weighted by the book’s number of ratings to determine the top five books to be added as official nominees in the Semifinal Round. A book may be nominated in no more than one genre category, but can also be nominated in the Goodreads Author category. Only one book in a series may be nominated per category. An author may receive multiple nominations within a single category if he or she has more than one eligible series or more than one eligible stand-alone book.