As we approach the end of 2025, our team of Randos is looking for new judges to join the crew! Do you love reading? Like, REALLY love reading? Would you like to send an award to the author of your fave book of the year? If so, join us! Shout out and we'll get you on the team!

With all our winners' trophies now having landed on doorsteps, it's time for the Randos crew to take a breather. We'll keep quietly reading and falling in love with books for the next couple months, then kick this all off again in late 2025!

Friends and fellow readers, we're happy to announce the winners of the 2024 Rando Awards! Our sincere congratulations to all our winners. Thank you for writing the books that kept us up past our bedtimes all through 2024. Your trophies are already on the way! 🧵 of all winners and nominees below!

What are the Randos? Is this a serious award? Are there actual trophies or just pretty Canva mockups? Who are you clowns? Yes, it's (semi) serious. Yes, there are real trophies. Yes, we kind of are clowns. But also, we love books. All your answers, here: www.christopher-ruz.com/blog/randosa...

After much deliberation, we’re excited to announce the shortlists for the 2024 Rando Awards! All authors were selected for excellent work in both fiction and non-fiction. Each award and shortlist has been sponsored and composed by a single judge. Works may or may not have been published in 2024.

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! (cont)