We get to this point every year, where we’re revealing the finalists, and every year we say the same thing: we are supremely grateful for our volunteers who read tons and tons of books over the past two and a half months. It sounds trite, but we really do mean it! Without the people reading and logging and discussing and debating and choosing, we wouldn’t have a Cybils award to give.
Collectively, one panelist has read 99 percent of all the books nominated (only 4 books haven’t been read!). And over 96 percent of all the nominated books have been read by two panelists. That’s pretty amazing if you think about it.
So, it bears repeating: we are extremely grateful for all the hard work our Round 1 volunteers have put in.
And as always, we are super excited to announce a slate of finalists that we can be proud of.
So, here are the links to the finalists. Congratulations to all of them!