For this year, I will be holding my own personal set of awards, as none of the books I liked received any from the Goodreads community. If there are any major discrepancies or omissions, please say so. 
 Books Which I Expected Very Little From And I Was Still Disappointed 
 Purity 
 Palo Alto 
 Books Which Came Out of Nowhere and Dazzled Me 
 The Door 
 Purge 
 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon 
 Books Which I Fully Expected to be Great And They Were 
 If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho 
 The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War 
 Most Hilarious and Vaguely Frightening Book about a Conspiracy Theorist 
 Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism 
 Important Book Series that I Should Really Get Around to Finishing 
 Kristin Lavransdatter 
 Pilgrimage, Volume 1: Pointed Roofs, Backwater, Honeycomb 
 My Brilliant Friend 
 Most Turgid Book by a World Leader 
 XI JINPING: THE GOVERNANCE OF CHINA 
 Most Horrific Nonfiction 
 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 
 Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War 
 Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning 
 Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience 
 Best First Volume Of A Multivolume Series about Political Leaders Who Had Complicated Relationships with Mao Zedong But the Book Doesn't Even Discuss the Subject's Political Life in Detail Until About Halfway In 
 Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 
 Kissinger: Vol 1: The Idealist, 1923-1968 
 Most Encyclopedic 
 The Arcades Project 
 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon 
 Imperial China 900-1800 
 The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics 
 Best Act of Analingus Given To Authoritarianism 
 The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy 
 Best Book about Family Feuds and Drinking Games 
 The Dream of the Red Chamber 
 Best Historical Fiction That Doesn't Get the Subject's Name and Number of Kids Right 
 The Great Prince Died 
 Best Reason to use the Word 'Patois' in Conversation 
 A Brief History of Seven Killings 
 Most Sadly Relevant 
 Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence