The Nebula Awards final ballot is out, so here are the ratings of the nominated books on Goodreads and LibraryThing. The top number in each column is in bold.
Best Novel
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||
| reviewers | av rating | owners | av rating | |
| A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine | 12821 | 4.38 | 489 | 4.18 |
| A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark | 8999 | 4.15 | 447 | 3.96 |
| The Unbroken, C.L. Clark | 4033 | 3.88 | 208 | 3.64 |
| Machinehood, S.B. Divya | 1447 | 3.69 | 111 | 3.83 |
| Plague Birds, Jason Sanford | 80 | 3.8 | 14 | 4.38 |
One of these is not like the others.
Best Novella
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||
| reviewers | av rating | owners | av rating | |
| A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers | 20347 | 4.29 | 540 | 4.25 |
| Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard | 3135 | 3.51 | 178 | 3.84 |
| Flowers for the Sea, Zin E. Rocklyn | 704 | 3.57 | 47 | 3.79 |
| Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters, Aimee Ogden | 391 | 3.47 | 34 | 3.85 |
| And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed | 124 | 3.93 | 14 | 4.17 |
| The Necessity of Stars, E. Catherine Tobler | 79 | 3.91 | 12 | 3.83 |
| “The Giants of the Violet Sea”, Eugenia Triantafyllou | – | – | – | – |
The last of these was not published as a standalone and so is not comparable. (Martha Wells declined nomination for Fugitive Telemetry.)
Andre Norton Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||
| reviewers | av rating | owners | av rating | |
| Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao | 23891 | 4.26 | 413 | 4.23 |
| Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko | 4982 | 4.32 | 116 | 3.95 |
| Victories Greater Than Death, Charlie Jane Anders | 1921 | 3.55 | 201 | 3.63 |
| Root Magic, Eden Royce | 1671 | 4.24 | 76 | 4.38 |
| A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger | 1214 | 4.14 | 86 | 3.42 |
| Thornwood, Leah Cypess | 210 | 3.82 | 21 | 2.5 |
Again, a bit of variation here.