It’s shortlist time again! Just to remind you, the GR and LT stats are a guide to how well a book has permeated the general market, but may not have much congruence with the respective voter bases of the two awards.

Nebula Awards

Best Novel		GR		LT
A Sorceress Comes to Call	T. Kingfisher	29,824	4.09	862	4.15
The Book of Love	Kelly Link	7,699	3.49	416	3.73
Someone You Can Build a Nest In	John Wiswell	9,182	3.99	306	3.94
Rakesfall	Vajra Chandrasekera	713	3.40	103	3.44
Asunder	Kerstin Hall	969	4.21	66	4.08
Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory	Yaroslav Barsukov	106	4.40	11	4.67

T. Kingfisher way ahead of the rest here, with John Wiswell second on Goodreads but Kelly Link second on LibraryThing. Yaroslav Barsukov’s readers are less numerous, but very enthusiastic.

Best Novella			GR		LT
The Butcher of the Forest		Premee Mohamed	5,756	3.89	206	3.8
The Tusks of Extinction		Ray Nayler	4,710	3.82	175	3.82
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain		Sofia Samatar	1,737	3.83	117	3.75
Lost Ark Dreaming		Suyi Davies Okungbowa	1,070	3.67	72	4.04
Countess		Suzan Palumbo	404	3.63	38	2.83
The Dragonfly Gambit		A.D. Sui	161	4.27	14	3.63

Quite close between the top two here.

Andre Norton Award			GR		LT
Moonstorm		Yoon Ha Lee	358	3.54	61	3.63
Puzzleheart		Jenn Reese	380	3.73	20	4.5
Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed		José Pablo Iriarte	119	4.53	12	4
Braided		Leah Cypess	62	4.21	4	4
Daydreamer		Rob Cameron	40	4.30	5	–
The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts		Vanessa Ricci-Thode	10	4.00	3	4

Jenn Reese leads on Goodreads, but Yoon Ha Lee is quite far ahead on LibraryThing, with none of these being super hits on either system.

BSFA Awards

Shorter Fiction			GR		LT
Saturation Point		Adrian Tchaikovsky	1,719	3.85	45	3.5
Navigational Entanglements		Aliette de Bodard	527	3.91	66	3.68
Charlie Says		Neil Williamson	29	4.41	3	4
What Happened at the Pony Club		Fiona Moore	–	–	–	–

Aliette de Bodard ahead on LT, but Adrian Tchaikovsky further ahead on GR.

Novel			GR		LT
Alien Clay		Adrian Tchaikovsky	8,048	4.03	267	3.89
Calypso		Oliver K Langmead	479	3.61	48	3.64
Three Eight One		Aliya Whiteley	231	3.36	32	3.5
Rabbit in the Moon		Fiona Moore	6	4.17	5	–

Clear leader here.

Fiction for Younger Readers			GR		LT
Somewhere Beyond the Sea		T J Klune	108,171	4.19	1,019	4.21
Doctor Who: Caged		Una McCormack	174	3.58	16	3.5
Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed		Jose Pablo Iriarte	119	4.53	12	4
Rebel Dawn		Ann Sei Lin	59	4.19	2	–

Somewhere Beyond the Sea has far more Goodreads raters, and also more LibraryThing owners, than any other book on either set of shortlists. In fact I think it may have more GR fans than every other book in this post added together.

Collections			GR		LT
Convergence Problems		Wole Talabi	227	4.11	29	4
Nova Scotia Vol 2		Neil Williamson and Andrew Wilson	7	4.29	6	–
Schrodinger’s Wife (And Other Possiblities)		Pippa Goldschmidt	11	4.36	3	–
Fight Like a Girl 2		Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall	10	4.6	–	–
Human Resources		Fiona Moore	1	5	4	–
Punks4Palestine: An Anthology of Hopeful SciFi for an Uncertain Future		Jasen Bacon	–	–	–	–

Only one of these has had much impact in the GR / LT market.

Long Non-Fiction			GR		LT
Track Changes		Abigail Nussbaum	8	4.5	7	–
Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 2		Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan	6	4.5	4	4
The Book Blinders		John Clute	3	4	3	–
Keith Roberts’s Pavane: A Critical Companion		Paul Kincaid	–	–	–	–
JG Ballard’s Crash: A Critical Companion		Paul March Russell	–	–	–	–

I suspect that there were more BSFA members voting for some of these than there are people logging them on either GR or LT.