The Rando Award for Best of All Possible Genderverses

In Universes, by @emnorth.bsky.social
Confessions of the Fox, by Jordy Rosenberg
The Unraveling, by @benjaminrosenbaum.com
The Space Between Worlds, by @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social
The Husbands, by @hollygramazio.bsky.social

The Rando Award for Nordic Feels

The Night Guest, by @hildur.bsky.social
Someone You Can Build a Nest In, by @wiswell.bsky.social
Leech, by @hironennes.bsky.social
Quarter Share, by Nathan Lowell
What Feasts at Night, by @tkingfisher.com

The Rando Award for Reminding Me I Love Reading

The Invisible Library, by @genevievecogman.bsky.social
Rules for Ghosting, by @shellyjayshore.bsky.social
Witch of Wild Things, by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Consort of Fire, by @kitrocha.com
Slippery Creatures, by @kjcharleswriter.com

The Rando Award for Life is But a Dream

Famous Men Who Never Lived, by K. Chess
The Museum of Human History, by @rebekahbergman.bsky.social
The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez
Gnomon, by @harkaway.bsky.social
Time’s Agent, by @brendapeynado.bsky.social

The Rando Award for Social Commentary in the Streets, Monster Fucking in the Sheets

Morning Glory Milking Farm, by C.M. Nascosta
Jumping the Shark: Matched with the Space Shark, by @authorashraven.bsky.social
Impromptu Match, by @authorlilymayne.bsky.social
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The Rando Award for We Live in a Society

Who Gets To Be Smart, by Bri Lee
The Marigold, by @afsulli.bsky.social
The City in the Middle of the Night, by @charliejane.bsky.social
The Faithless and the Damned, by @sevromero.bsky.social
The Winnowing Draw, by @emptywrites.bsky.social

The Award for Stellar Storytellers

Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut, by Samantha Cristoforetti
How to Astronaut, by @astroterry.bsky.social
A City on Mars, by @weinersmith.bsky.social & @zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Chasing Space, by Leland Melvin
Not Necessarily Rocket Science, by Kellie Gerardi

The Rando Award for Oof, Right in the Emotions

The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez
Children of Time, by @aptshadow.bsky.social
Hench, by @nataliezed.bsky.social
The Blacktongue Thief, by @buehlmeister.bsky.social
Some Desperate Glory, by @emilytesh.net

The Rando Award for The Best of the First

Dungeon Crawler Carl, by @mattdinniman.bsky.social
The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
The Sunbearer Trials, by @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social
The Wrath & The Dawn, by Renée Ahdieh
The City of Brass, by @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social

Friends, it's time.

Our panel of nine passionate Randos spent all of 2024 reading the very best books they could get their grubby hands on. Now comes the challenging part: winnowing down our shortlists, and then picking our deserving winners.

But first: the categories!
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