The Bookish Jazz Awards: My Nominations

2021 Bookish Jazz Awards: nominate your favorite YA & Adult books of the year!

Kal at Reader Voracious works SO hard for the bookish community and I can’t wait for this year’s Bookish Jazz Awards, so, to show my excitement, I’m going to give you all my nominations in today’s post! For more information, please go to the post which I’ve shared above this! ^

Favorite YA Villain

Val, from Wings of Shadow by Nicki Pau Preto

Favorite Non-Human Villain Adult and YA

Monster in the woods from Near the Bone by Christina Henry

Devil, The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino

Favorite OTP & YA OTP

Robin and Edwin from A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

Pippa and Arjun from The Righteous by Renée Ahdieh

Favorite Book Setting Adult & YA

Hirana Temple in The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

The Woods in For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten

Favorite Adult and & YA Sequel

Fury of a Demon by Brian Naslund

Wings of Shadow by Nicki Pau Preto

Favorite Adult & YA Debut

The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley

Favorite Adult and & YA Book Cover

Sistersong by Lucy Holland

Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart

Favorite Adult & YA Squad

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

Blackout edited by Dhonielle Clayton and others

The Book I Couldn’t Stop Screaming About Adult & YA

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

Favorite YA Pet/Animal

Phoenixes from Wings of Shadow by Nicki Pau Preto

Favorite Adult & YA Book of the Year

Sistersong by Lucy Holland

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

Favorite YA Novella

Tarnished Empire by Danielle Jensen

Instead of keeping up with all the covers, I wanted to do the ones above as they’re the first page of submissions, I’ll be listing the rest!

YA NOMINATIONS

YA Contemporary (Realistic Fiction)

Like Home by Louisa Onomé

YA Fantasy (includes all subgenres of fantasy)

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

YA Graphic Novels & Comics (any genre, including manga)

Huda F Are You? By Huda Fahmy

YA Historical Fiction

Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee

YA Horror

Small Favors by Erin A. Craig

YA Literary Fiction

Blackout, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon

YA Mystery

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

YA Romance (Can be any genre romance)

For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten

YA Science Fiction (includes all subgenres of science fiction)

The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He

YA Science & Technology

The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn Bowman

YA Thriller

The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino

ADULT NOMINATIONS

Fantasy (inc. all subgenres of Fantasy)

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Graphic Novel & Comics (any genre, inc. manga)

Lore Olympus Vol. 1 by Rachel Smythe

Historical Fiction

Sistersong by Lucy Holland

Literary Fiction

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

Mystery

Dangerous Women by Hope Adams

Romance (Can be any genre romance)

The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

Science Fiction (includes all subgenres of science fiction)

Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell

Thriller

City of Vengeance by D.V. Bishop

And there we have it! My 2021 Bookish Jazz Award Nominations! I am tired and going to go nap now lol