🏆Predicting the 2025 Mystery/Thriller Goodreads Choice Awards Nominees! 🏆

Hello. Today, as always, I am going to be trying to predict the nominees for the Goodreads Choice Awards mystery thriller category 2025. And I have to tell you guys, I have never ever felt less confident. I I don't know how I'm going to do this. >> I feel sick. Migraine. I've got a headache. >> No, forget it. I'm sorry. >> Usually going into this, I have a pretty clear idea of what's going to be nominated. This year it has been dire dire. Well, no, here's the thing. I think a lot of niche mystery thrillers have come out that I am interested in. But in terms of like the big books, crickets. Crickets. Da's here. You can probably see her tail. She going to help us emotionally. I need an emotional support animal for this. Yeah. Every year I read the nominees, the top 10 for the good choice, Miss Youth Throw category. And so I think it's fun to try and predict them. But guys, I've never never ever felt less confident. Never. Something that I do when I do these videos is I try not to think about this in the run-up. But of course, it's like, you know, there's a little there's thoughts percolating in the back of your mind, but I try not to think about it so that I come to conclusion with you guys. This year I maybe have four books in my brain and after that we I don't know what we're going to do. There's also books that I'm hoping are not nominated and there'll probably be a bit of like I don't know me trying to convince myself they're not going to be nominated when they are. But yeah, I I think that the mystery thriller genre is in deep deep trouble and it's all thanks to one person, Freda McFaden. No, I'm joking. Or am I? Or am I joking? So yeah, today we are going to try and predict the nominees, but I don't know how that's going to go. I I think the previous years I've gotten like I'll put on the I'll put up on the screen. I've done this two years previous. How many of the predictions I've got correct? Maybe like 13. I think four correct this year. Maybe guys, I honestly don't know what what to hope for. So, shall we just dive into it and try and predict the nominees for the mystery thriller category. Okay. I'm going to start with something that makes me happy. I'm going to start with a good one. I am going to start with The Impossible Fortune by Rich Dosman. My man, love of my life. Rich Dosman. I >> He wants to marry me. I think this will be nominated. I think this will make top 10. I'm going to put what I think will make top 10 up here and I'm going to put what I think will be in the just the top 20 in the gold. I think The Impossible Fortune by Rich Osman will be nominated and will make top 10. Now, the only thing that I think could draw this back is I do think like at a certain point they don't like nominating books super far into series and obviously this is number five in the series. However, since this series has been nominated, I think it was from the third onwards. Rich Dosman always makes like top five. So, I think it's a pretty safe bet. I think this series perfectly exemplifies the kind of mystery that it represents and so I think it will be there to represent that. The Thursday Murder Cup movie just came out. So, I think this actually has a chance of doing very well because kid you not the way the Good Choice Wars works, people who just liked the movie will vote for this if they haven't read anything in the category. So, I believe this will make top 10 with my whole heart. I feel like I can stand by that. It's one of the most popular books. It hasn't been out super long. Um, sorry, excuse me. Watching Norwich City content. So, it hasn't got the most. Like, we're going to have a look when we go further in at how many ratings stuff has got. It hasn't got the most yet. Probably 14,000, but it will be nominated. It's It's come out like two weeks ago, so it hasn't had a chance to be read by loads of people, but it will be nominated. I stand by it. I stand by it. Okay, that's Listen, we had to make us happy at the start. We had to have some good vibes going on. And I I reckon this will be what I vote for. I can already say it now. We have the nominees aren't out yet for like a month, but I reckon this will be what I vote for. Okay, let's counteract the good with some bad. The uh the great with some evil. Let's look at Freda. Evil. Evil. I think Freda's bought out three books so far this year. I don't think three will be nominated. I think two will be. That could be me like hoping for the best, but I do think I I don't think they'll nominate three from one author. Like what is that 15% I can't do math, but like about that of the nominees being from one author I think is crazy. I think they will nominate two. So I think what is um eligible are the crash 482,000 ratings. I just like felt a death inside. Oh my god. How will we I don't think we're going to defeat the evil this year. I think she'll probably win. Um, we got the crash, the tenant, and the intruder. Now, the intruder has only just come out, but the crash, the crash is the most read. But look, the tenant has done pretty well. This is really hard. Last year, they nominated the teacher and the boyfriend, not the housemmaid is watching. And that is the lowest rated out of all them. And it looks like the crash is the lowest rated out of the crash, the tenant, and the intruder. I mean, this is like I don't know what to pick. I don't know what to pick. I feel like I've heard the most about The Crash. I don't know what to pick. This literally came out like This has just got a high rating cuz it came out a week ago. This came out a week ago. I don't know what they're going to pick. I don't know what they're going to pick. I think I'm going to go with The Crash and the Tenant. That could be wrong, but I think let's go with The Crash and the Tenant. That is just pure guesswork, guys. There's no there's no rhyme or reason to that. So yeah, I think these will both be nominated and I think they will both make the top 10 cuz that's what happened last year. And listen, if they make the top 10, that's better for me because we have a chance of then the vote being kind of like canceled out and her not winning. I will I'll accept reading two Freedom McFadens if it means she doesn't win cuz that's best for everyone. Aren't we glad the God of the Woods won last year? some actual like quality literary mystery rather than like the boyfriend or whoever came the teacher one she came second with like two of them. There we have it. There's three. Let's talk about the two other books that are on my brain and then after that god knows what we're going to pick. I honestly have no idea. Um who knows who knows who knows who knows. >> So one I've been thinking about is the ghost writer. This has been a pretty buzzy one. 45,000 ratings which I think is actually going to be pretty good this year. No one's reading mystery thrill. Everyone's just reading Freda with 480,000 ratings. How are we ever meant to stand up against her? I don't know. Yeah, The Ghost Writer by Julie Clark. I've heard a lot of buzz around this one. It's got like a historical element, which I think always tends to do well as well. I think we're going to be using these a lot. Like, what else is people reading? Readers also enjoyed these books. H this I want to I want to put a pin in that. We're going to open that. That one's tricky whether it will be historical or mystery. Anyways, I'd actually be really excited about this one. I think this one sounds really good. It just sounds very interesting. There's like a family tragedy. The only surviving child becomes a horror writer and we've got a ghost writer who's his daughter and she has to ghost write her father's last book. I just think it sounds interesting. The other one I've heard a lot about is The Compound and I feel like this could be up there. Oh, it hasn't got very high rating. I believe a book has to be 3.5 or above to be nominated, but it's got 51,000 ratings, which is pretty good. I'm going to put it in. I'm going to put it in. I'm going to put it in. With an average rating that low, maybe I should put that in the top 20. Like maybe people won't vote for that cuz you got to think like number of ratings is important because people need to have read the book to vote. Well, people don't need to have read the book to vote for it. A lot of people don't. In general, the more people have read the book, the more people get a chance to vote for it. But if it's got a low average rating, it's not going to be people's like favorite book. Like someone's more likely to have read The Compound and another one on this list, and they'll vote for that one, you know? So, I'm actually going to put that in the top 20 for now. One of the buzziest mystery thrillers is Judy Chan is Dead of the Year, but I think that's got too low rating. 3.45. Actually, only 30,000 ratings. I would thought that had more. I just heard maybe it's more of a book, you know? So, that can't be nominated. 3.45. 45. I've heard great things about it, though. One of the most helpful things is these list Good Reads puts out cuz you can establish where their mind is. You can figure out what they're thinking about. So, we want to go, we'll come back and look if there's any other like newer ones, but we want to go to the readers hit books of the year so far list. I read a selection of these midway through the year, but these are usually nominated, but the ones Oh god, these are dire. These are dire. Okay, let's accept this. The Crash. We put that on there. I don't know. It's just so bad. It [ __ ] stinks. It stinks. Beautiful Ugly by Alice Fini. The Perfect Divorce by Geneva Rose. Heartwood. I read I mean when I read it, I didn't feel like it really should I put all the four of these on here. Usually they are nominated. What was What was last year's? I mean, how am I going to find last year's? Were all four end up nominated? We're having to do detective work now, guys. This one, is this 2024's? Yeah, here we go. Okay. First Lie Wins was nominated. The Teacher was nominated. Listen for the Lie was nominated. Homes where the Bodies were nominated. How to Solve Your Own Murder was nominated. There's a lot more here. I don't think Darling Girls was. I don't think One Perfect Cup was. I don't think Last Murder at the end world was. I don't think the airs was, but these top one, two, three, four were. So, if there's only four, should I put them all in? Oh my god, where am I going to put them? I feel sick. I don't want to do this. Oh, okay. I think I'm going to have to put The Perfect Divorce in the top 10. That with a 4.03 average rating and 182,000 ratings. I don't want to read this. And I haven't read the first one. Do I have to read the first one? I don't want to. I don't think I will read the first one. Oh, we're going to have to Let's put a pin in that. [ __ ] I don't want to talk. Oh, I guess let's put a pin in that as well. Okay. Let me open up them up another tabs. Okay. I don't want to read I don't want to read this. I don't want to read this. This is not my kind of book. Like domestic threat. Okay. I think with those numbers [ __ ] Let's put that in the top 10. I don't like that. I don't like that one bit. I don't like that one bit. This is what I'm saying. I feel like the top 10 is going to be awful this year. I feel sick. I feel so sick. I don't there's not a lot of books in this top 10 I'm looking forward to reading if I'm honest with you cuz I there's a few other books I feel like could end up here. Okay, we've got five of the top 10. Bloody hell. Then Beautiful of Alisini. I'm going to back myself and say I think this will be nominated. Usually I don't think Alice Sweeney makes it in anymore but it's been such a dire dire year and this has been a good release for her. I'm going to put this in the top 20 but not the top 10. I don't think she'll make top 10 with a 3.6 average rating. Oh, Famous Last Words has got a lot. Okay, interesting. Let's put a pin in that. So, yeah, I'm going to put this on top 20, but not top 10. I hate Alice Feni. I I've never read an Alicei I enjoy. So, I would really like it if it doesn't make top 10 cuz I don't want to read this at all. At all. >> I will speak for myself. >> A horrible thing to say. >> No, it's not. >> So, that's me manifesting a little bit. That's me hoping for the best. Okay. And then what was the other one? Heartwood, which is the one I've read. It's got 50,000 ratings, and they do like putting more literary mysteries in. It is a more literary one. Like, it reminded me a lot of God of the Woods, which won last year. I feel like this could go in there as a more literary one. It's not great. Well, I give it what, 3.5. A slow literary mystery that I found interesting, but some elements didn't work for me. I found the book lacking a real motivator to keep me reading. This is a great review, Megan. An actual mystery, if you will. Lol. And I'm not sure if the split perspective worked. I enjoyed the writing atmosphere and setting. terrible. I think that's fair. Let's put them on top 20 for now. We can remove it. But they only did four for this list this year. I think they'll all be there even if they're not in the top 10. Listen, we're filling out. We've got eight books. Let's go to all the ones I've put a pin in that I've opened up in other tabs and see how we feel. Okay, what have we got? Let's have a look at the ones we've got. This one, what kind of paradise? They're shelving it more as a I need to find if this is on a list somewhere. They love to throw one or two. I'm not sure about this one. one or two historical mystery thrillers in there and I feel like I've seen this somewhere sh they shoved it as historical which would mean it would go in historical 10 10 what they put it as like in one of these is what they put it as going forward but they love a historical mystery like and they always make the top 10 because people who just read historical books that's the book they've read and they vote for it so like Homecoming All the Colors of the Dark um I'm trying to think of other ones but yeah they're always there but I don't know about this one. I feel like this might go under historical, but I'm going to leave that one there for now. Then we've got three here. We got Famous Last Words by Jenny McAllistister, which has got 97,000 ratings. That's done better than I thought it had. 3.74 average rating. I hate this song. That's why they put it on. They've done it to be annoying. Done it just to annoy me. This one, oh, I think we're in danger here. This one I think will make top 10. The missing half. The uh 3.83 83 and 79,000 ratings. Now, here's the thing. This is a podcast podcaster, true crime podcaster, crime junkie. All good people here. Was nominated I feel like in 2023 and made top 10. Was awful. At least this time she's admitting to having a go a coowwriter. Let's I was going to say ghost writer. A co-writer. At least this time she's admitting to that. At least this time the the co the Oh, she didn't have one last time cuz the book was so bad. Oh, and I hated it. I hated All Good People Here, but maybe this time if there wasn't a ghost writer last time, this time there is. Maybe it's better. But anyways, this woman has fans. She The last time it made no sense that All Good People Here made it into top 10, but it did because this woman has fans and so they'll vote and it'll make top 10. It's a bit of like a pseudo celebrity author pick. I think I might have to put this in top 10. Oh my god, what book in the top 10 am I excited for? It's a dire year. It's a dire year. I'm going to put that in top 10 because even if the numbers there's books with better numbers, she has fans. She has a social media presence that she can mobilize to get them to vote. Oh my god, I feel sick. I don't like this. Should I just read a different genre? I can I can't read a different genre, guys. I can't do it. This is my genre, but I feel like it's betraying me. I'm going to put that in top 10. God, look at that. There is one two I'm excited about in there. Famous last words I've read. Don't Let him In by Lisa Joel. 3.77. Not a super high average rating, but 101,000 ratings. And it's only been out since June. Some of the numbers we're seeing are books that have been out since like February. That one's been out since June. So maybe that's got to be up there. Lisa Jules, I feel like is 50/50% of the time up there. With Avengers by Ry, I'm just going to put a pin in that for you guys. Let you know it can't be nominated. Got a 3.38 average rating. I'm going to put both of these in the top 20 for now. But I feel like with the amount of ratings that they both have, they're both pretty high. I I put Jun Harrison in last year with Just Another Missing Person and it didn't make it. But I feel like maybe this one's been a bit buzzier. Like it's already got more ratings. Okay, let's put that in the top 20 for now. I feel like we need to find some more mysteries. There's a certain We need literary mysteries. We need historical. We need some authors of color. That would help. that would help because you know I talk about this a lot but it's a very white leaning genre and I feel like they do try to put some authors of color in. You know the numbers might not look like they'd make it in but good readads does try and promote them a bit but the you know the genre's the genre is very white and it's something I need to do better at reading more diverse mystery thrillers and promoting them because yeah the genre is very white. It's important that there are authors of color, not just as like a, you know, there'll be people watching this like, oh, it's like a tick box exercise, you know what I mean? Not because of that, because it's important that we promote these authors. And I feel like Good Reads tries, but at the end of the day, it still is too white. But there you go. Okay. Okay. I don't know how I'm feeling about this. Let's have a look just so readers also enjoyed. I mean, I'll put a pin in Sherry, but I feel like she doesn't usually make it anymore. Karen Slaughter. That's a high average rating. You know what? I would be interested in reading this. I've enjoy Have I enjoyed a Karen Slaughter? Have I read? I could be making a lie. I could be lying. But I did tell a bit of a lie there. Small town where everyone knows everyone. Two girls vanish. I might put that in top 10 for now. That's a high average rating. That's the thing that I feel like determines the top 10 often is like super high amount of ratings or a very high average rating because people are passionate about it and want to vote for it. Oh god, I feel like there's not a natural Freda opponent here. Not feeling good about this. >> Can't you save us, Britney Spears? Can we be saved? Now, a real possibility because of how I've how I've like done this and how I don't know what like I haven't pre-prepared is that oh is I could miss important books. There could be some glaring books that I'm missing here. Not quite dead yet by Holly Jackson. This is technically her adult debut. This is not YA. I think this will be nominated. I think they like Holly Jackson as an author. Often she like wins or comes really high in the YA category. And so 4.13 with 58,000 ratings I think will be up there and I might put in top 10. Oh, that's crazy. I'd be excited to read that because I do love me a Holly Jackson, but I also hate me Holly Jackson at times. We have a difficult relationship. I'm really sad that Julie Chan is dead. Can't be nominated because it's got too low rating. So I really want to read that. Okay, this is getting crazy. This is getting crazy. This is just also on vibes. But I feel like I've been doing this for so long. I actually have a pretty good I'm actually feeling okay about this. Well, I think okay about me being correct. See, these are like, okay, do I think Sher will be nominated? Eh, too old for this. I don't think that's got good enough ratings. Forget me not. These are the kind of authors that can be nominated. Sarah Peckin, Megan Miranda, you know, these are the kind of authors that often are nominated. Ruth wear, but none of these are jumping out at me as definitates, you know. None of them are jumping out at me. I want to see if they've done any other lists that are to do with new mystery thrillers. So, like there's this one, but this is all that's like jumbled up. I want to see if there's any other like 20, you know, new mystery thrillers for the season or whatever. I'd love if All of Us Murderers was nominated. It won't be. I'd love that. Oh, wait a minute. I'm figuring this out. I'm like Scooby and Shaggy. I'm solving a mystery. >> Dan Brown. What are we thinking about this one? He's the kind of author that Once Upon a Time would win, you know? Will this be nominated? I don't know if this is the vibe that they go for anymore. 688 pages. [ __ ] off. Oh, it's set in Prague, though. I was just there. It's got less ratings by now than I thought it would. You know, Dan Brown, it's been out for a month. Only 26,000. You all right, babe? I don't know what I think about this. This is obviously such a big series, so well known. He's such a well-known author. What do I think? I think let's put it in top 20. I don't really want to read it. 688 pages. Like I feel I got better things to do in my time. I don't know about that. Let's put it in top 20 for now. That hasn't got as many ratings as I would think it would by now. Okay. Is there any I'm I need to get back to looking for a list. Monthby month guide to fall's biggest mystery novels. This is in Boomtown is one I'm interested in. And I feel like when I looked I had pretty good Where is it? Pretty good reception. So this isn't out yet. Okay, maybe not. Yeah, it's about erotic dancers. This just this just this speaks to me as like a book they could slot in. I don't know why. I just think it's offering something different in kind of the plot than a lot of what the other books have offered, you know? No, maybe not. I don't know. That's hard. Oh god, please don't put Robert Galbra in there. Please don't do it. I feel like maybe let's not do that. Like, let's let's not do that. >> This is Satan's work. >> I'm not I'm not reading. I feel like other books in the series have come out and not been nominated. I'm not I'm not predicting it. I don't care if that makes me wrong. I'd rather be right than wrong. Oh, no. I'd rather be wrong than right. Okay. Forget Me Not did only come out in August. Okay. So, that hasn't been out as long as I thought it would be. So, maybe we have to consider Stacy Willingham cuz she often is nominated, but last time I put her and she wasn't nominated. Okay. I mean, this hasn't been out. We do have to consider lower numbers for books that haven't been out as long. Hot Wax. That's interesting to me. They're putting that under I thought that would put that under horror. They've put that under thriller. John Gisham is just I don't think John Gisham nominated. I'd love if all of us murderers would be 2025 mystery thriller. This book will bury me. King of Ashes. Okay, these are some shouts here. Let's look at King of Ashes first. SA Cosby does well and I love SA essay Cosby that I've read. So I'd love to read another SA Cosby. Oh, okay. 4.08 33,000 ratings. Came out in June. It's been out, you know, some of these books we're looking at with 100,000 ratings have been out since January, you know, so you have to like weigh that up. I think this will be nominated. SA Cosby's almost always nominated. Where am I putting it? Am I putting it top 10? Something about SA Cosby. I feel like often he does make top 10. I think I might put it in top 10 for now. His style of writing. We don't have anything else like that here, you know. So, I'm going to put that on top 10 for now. That could be wrong. I could change that. We're open to change. And what was the other one? This book will bury me. Oh, I don't know if those numbers for a book that's been out in Mar since March. Scream to me nomination. I'm leaving that. I'm leaving that for now. I'm leaving that. Let's have a look here. Alex Finlay again. These are all books we've seen before. What is the sequel? How to solve a murder. How to seal your own fate. That made top 10. I'm just thinking we haven't got a lot of like cozier mysteries like mystery mysteries. It's not screaming out to me. Oh, this will be nominated. Vera Wongs will be nominated. Ver Wong. Why didn't I think of that? I literally said in the last video I filmed, "Oh, I think this is going to be nominated." Okay, fine. Oh my god. Got to pull my blind over. Hang on. This will be nominated. Do I think top 10? Hm. Thing with the series is people who have enjoyed the first one vote for the second one even if they haven't read it. And this only well it came out in April. I don't know about top 10. I don't know. I don't know. But maybe where am I going to put that? Let's put that in. Partly let's put it in top 10 because we haven't got a lot of mysteries. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. I'm going to put it there for now. I just feel like people who love mysteries, there isn't a lot out this year. The mystery readers will congregate on certain books, you know? I don't know about that. Let's put it there for now. I'm not That doesn't look like a perfect top 10 for me. I don't think I'm right. Oh, this is an interesting one, guys. Oh, that's an interesting one that's just come out. Okay, we're on like the mystery side here. A Finley Donovan has never been nominated. And I kind of think that's crazy. You know, this this is the fifth in the series and it's got 32,000 ratings. It's got 4.07. 07 average rating, but they've never nominated one. And will they start at the fifth book? I don't know if they will, but I think it's kind of crazy that a Finley has never been nominated. I just feel like that feels again, it fills a role. It feels like a certain type of book. And then we've got The Maid Secret, which the first two have been nominated. 3.89, 35,000 ratings, but the second book only came like 16th or something last year. Killers of a certain age, the first book was nominated. How to Sue Your Own Fate, the first book was nominated. And we've got Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowits. That's got a high average rating, but I don't know if these have ever been nominated. Moonflower Murders. Did it just come out so long ago? It doesn't look like that was nominated. Usually, it says if they were nominated. I don't know. None of these stand out to me. You didn't stand out to me. My mom's just turned on the TV downstairs. pledged for him. My dad was on a meeting. Why can't everyone just stop when I'm filming this video and accept that this is the most important event of the year? >> Yeah, that's cinema. This is cinema, guys. This is cinema, film, and movies. >> Sorry, I've also I don't know how well I do talking to you because this really makes my brain tick and I'm just like I feel like I have to put at least one of these four in, right? The maid secret, Finley, kills well with others, Marble Hall murders, if not two. I don't feel good about anything. I don't feel good about anything. Okay, maybe not that one. That's only got 16,000 ratings. This one's got a highest rating, but only 19,000. Finley has got 32, but has never been nominated. Made Secret's got 35, but the second book didn't do well. Oh, no, no, no, no. Okay, it came like 12th. It came 12th, but that was with it coming out the start. I don't know how I feel about this. Oh, the air was nominated. Okay. I didn't think that was. There's certain books on here I feel like we're not fulfilling the role that those books. Okay, I'm going to put the maid secret in and I'm going to put it in top 20. I don't think it'll make Where's it gone? Oh, I I I went in the tab. I'm going to put that in. I don't know if that's right. But the other one came 12th. The other one I'm thinking of is Janice Howlet has never been nominated, but that's usually because her books were coming out a lot later in the US. And I feel like The Killer Question came out No, it's only got 2,500 ratings. This is the kind of book I wish I could nominate. I can't believe Janice Hallet is so like less read than I thought she was. They like to put one or two like really popular Kindle books. Kindle mystery thriller. And I've never heard of these books in my life when they come out. See what the [ __ ] is Nothing to see here. I don't know what that is. >> Who is she? Who is she? Where did you find her? >> What? There's a book I've se I think it's horror, but I think that's horror. Yeah, that's horror and also only 400 ratings. This is so hard. Part of me just wants to put Boomtown in. I don't think it's right. But again, this is just like there's certain types of books that they like to slot in. And I feel like this is a kind of tone. Two missing erotic dancers set in the city. This kind of like underbelly of crime that I don't think we've got anything like that. I might just put that in. I don't think it's right, but I feel like there'll be a book like it. I mean, there's a lot of like domestic thrillers here, and I feel like this is a type of thriller that's kind of like crime. I don't think it'll be there, but I'm going to put it in. I don't feel good about that, though. But I feel like there's something there must be a book that I'm missing that has a tone like that, cuz I remember when I saw it for the first time, I was like, that'll be there. A monthby-month guide to 2025's biggest mysteries and thrillers. Well, okay. I'm going to collapse. No, I don't. I feel faint. I've struck gold, ladies. >> Right, we have those two. This is a helpful list. This is almost cheating. We haven't got a killing cold. Uh, that doesn't that doesn't light me on fire. Uh, I'm also looking again for the Oh, notes on surviving the fire. That's only got 4544 ratings. Count my lies. 55,000. Okay, we have to get that on the list. Alex North and Alex Finley. I mean, 21,000 ratings and 23. I don't think so. The retirement plan 9,000. This is real. This is real scraping the barrel stuff from me trying to figure out what's going to be nominated. Uh oh, that's interesting. They have put that under a mystery thriller that I think that was going to be nominated. I'm putting that in and I'm going to put it in top 10. I'm moving something out of top 10. I didn't I thought they'd put it I'd seen it under historical, but if they've put that under mystery thriller that's going to be nominated is going to be top 10. I can just tell by the cover that that's they're going to nominate that. That's just such that's such a nominated kind of book. So the books I want to take out I feel like are not the books I'm going to take out. >> Well, what you want to do is not necessarily what you're going to do. >> I'm like let's take out Freda. No, I'm going to take out Vera Wongs. Let's put that there. Let's put that down there actually. Um, okay. We have that. Murder takes a vacation. I'm seeing a lot of places. 8,000 ratings. How am I feeling? Count my lies. A reading one night suspense thriller. A wealthy married couple. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. I've had it enough. >> You know what? >> Why are we back on domestic thrillers? I hate it. Do we only need one book left? I don't know if Boomtown's the book I'm looking for. I feel sick. I don't feel good about this. Count my lies. 55,000 rings. 3.73. Uh, I don't know about that. I don't know about any of these. These none of these. None of these make me feel good. This is an interesting one. Strange. It's also translated. I don't know what year they they p they, you know, nominate translated, but Strange Pictures I think will go under horror. Even though I think it's actually more of a mystery book, I think would go under horror. Otherwise, I might put that in the top 20. That might be my last pick. But they it's more I mean the genres here is what people have shelved it as not what good readads categorizes as. But I do think it'll be under horror. We need one more book. We need one more book. And it's like out of all of these what will it be? You know, who knows? Could be a killing cold. It could be Count My Lies. It could be [ __ ] Sher Lepina. It could be Ashley Winstead. It could be Samantha Downing. Like I don't know. What do I want to put in? See, I I discount Sherry. I do. But then a four 44,000 ratings with 3.97 is one of one of our higher combos. Do I want to put Sher Lepina in? I feel like Sherry's like a safe bet, but also not a safe bet. Like she used to always be nominated. Now not so much. But that is a fairly high average rating and a fairly high amount of ratings. I feel like I have a distinct lack of diverse books here. Like I only have Vera Wongs, King of Ashes, and Boomtown. I don't think Boomtown's correct, but I don't really want to take it out. cuz something tells me it could be the wild card. There's always a wild card like a book that has just come out or like a Kindle book and just something about that book. I feel like there's nothing else on this list. Like with Sharp Lino, I feel like I'm I've got books like this on the list. I'm going to put Sherry in. I don't know how I feel about that. I don't I don't know how I feel about that. Okay. I don't know how I feel about that. Okay, that is my prediction. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. >> And I think she's in for a rude awakening. I there could be some big books I've missed, but I don't think there is. I think it's a dire year and we're in trouble and it's terrible and life is terrible. No, I think that's my prediction for the top 20 and top 10. I don't feel good about it. I don't think I'm going to have got as many right this year. I think it's going to be there's going to be some wild cards in there. But that is my prediction based off vibes and my vibes of numbers. I don't know. I've been filming for almost an hour, guys. I've been filming for almost I don't know what I'm going to edit this down to. Yeah. I don't I have nothing else to say otherwise I don't feel good about that. And like out of the top 10 I want to read The Impossible Fortune. I want to read The Ghost Writer. What kind of paradise sounds interesting? Real goody here. Not quite dead yet. Okay, I've put six in that top 10. King of Ash. I've put six in that top 10. I'd want to read one 2 3 four. I don't Beautiful Ugly could make that top 10. That could happen. I don't want it to happen. I really don't. I really don't want that to happen. I don't feel like I've got enough cozy mysteries either. I got three, I guess. Impossible Fortune, Made Secret, and Veril. I don't feel good about The Maid Secret. I don't feel good about Boom. These two, these three, the These three are the top 10 of the top 20 I don't feel good about. I think could very easily be not nominated. Let me know how you think I did. I don't know about I don't I'm not confident at all. I'm the least confident. I Well, I Yeah, I'm still the least confident I've ever been. There were times when I feel like my predictions are dead set. This This could be. I reckon I've got like nine right if I had to predict. I don't know. I don't feel good about it. I don't feel good about it. I more so I just dread what this year is going to be for the genre for the category cuz I just think the genre is in a weird place right now. The genre is in a weird place. We need to just get back to more mysteries essentially. And anyone Yeah, it's just wrong that we don't have more mysteries. Why are there not 20 rich Osman's on here? That what that's what I would like. Anyways, thank you so much for watching this video. I hope I've managed to edit it into something fairly coherent because it hasn't set off like that. But anyways, I love you all so much. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you soon in another video. And I'll see you soon for me reading the top 10. I'm petrified. I am petrified. I've never felt such dread. Wish me luck. I'll see you soon. Bye. [Music]