Goodreads Choice Awards 2015 is set, and the best books of every genre is announced!
We've been reading some of both the winners and the nominees, so we thought we'd share our thoughts about them with you!

The Winner of "Best Fiction" was Harper Lee's "Go set a Watchman". Neither Ida og Marlene has read this yet, but both of us has "To Kill a Mockingbird" in our bookshelves and we can't wait to read it.

We have, however read one of the nominated books, "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" by Fredrik Backman.
A beautiful book that shows the modern family's challenges and the world of an eight-year old trying to understand the world when her only friend, her grandmother, dies. We swear to God, Backman is the only one who could manage to make such a theme funny. If you need a beautiful, funny book for christmas, this one is a good choice. You can read our review of the book HERE


Jojo Moye's "After You" is also a nominated book for "best fiction" and Ida can't wait to read this beauty - after being teared apart by all the feelings from "Me Before You". Marlene also has Me Before You on her to-read list.


The winner of "Best Mystery & Thriller" is Paula Hawkins's "The Girl on The Train". A book Ida finished in about three days, while sitting by the window and watch the train passing by. And a book Marlene has on her bookshelf just glaring at her every time she chooses a new book to read.

This isn't a category Marlene often looks at or even reads for that matter, but there were two books that made she want to look at the winners again. She has a huge passion for killer-whales, and one of her all-time favorite documentaries are Blackfish, so when she saw what the winner book was all about, she wanted to check it out. Beneath the Surface by John Hargrove is a book she believes is worth reading! She also believes that its fellow nominee, Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey, is worth checking out!



So, while Marlene was voting in this contest she was SO pleased to see Victoria Aveyard on the list, not only once, but twice! Her debut book, Red Queen is one of the most amazing dystopian books Marlene has ever read. She believes that it gives "new life" to the already existing and all-too-alike dystopian genre.


This years best YA book, which is, in Marlene's opinion more heartbreaking than the Fault in Our Stars, All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven.


This book made Marlene tear up on the beaches of Crete! It's this beautiful book about love, but also about friendship, about faith, about death and about finding those small, beautiful things in life. It's so damn beautiful, and Marlene can't wait for it to become a movie in 2017!!!!

The worst part is, that Marlene has most of the books amongst the nominees in her to-read list.
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han, Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen, Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella, Nowhere But Here by Katie McGarry, Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga, The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand, The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West,
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy and More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera.