Reprint of the Year Awards 2020 – The Results!!!

Right, so has everyone skipped down to the bottom of the post to see who won first place yet?

Good, now here are my plans for world domination…

No? Still a few kindly souls going to read this bit at the top?

When I launched the poll over a week ago, I decided to make a note of how the voting went in the first 24 hours. It was pleasing after this first day to see that the total number of votes had already surpassed the number gained overall in last year’s poll. By the end of last night there had been a 68% increase in votes, compared to the 14% increase last year.

Four of the titles which are now in the Top 5 emerged within 10 minutes of the poll opening, yet there were still a few titles which were slow to begin with, in terms of votes, but over time consistently racked up the votes needed to get into the top 5. (There are some ties in the Top 5, hence a number greater than 5 being referred to – my maths is not that bad…)

There was quite a tussle between the title in first place and one of the second-place winners. They swapped positions a lot within the first day of voting, but by the next evening the now winner was 11 votes ahead and this only went on to increase.

But who was it?

Yes, now you can scroll down and see who won!

The four titles which received the fewest votes, (gaining 5 votes or less) are…

13^th place is held by these three titles…

Two of these titles, although not nominated by myself, were some of my favourite reads this year.

In 12^th place is…

In 11^th place is…

And now here is the top 10 and in 10^th place is…

In 9^th place is…

In 8^th place is…

I think this is the first time Galileo Publishers have made it into the awards, so 8^th place is not bad for a debut entry.

In 7^th place…

I am looking forward to reading this one in 2021.

In 6^th place…

5^th place is shared by these two books…

The Man Who Didn’t Fly was one of my nominations, so it was great to make it into the top 5.

In 4^th place is…

3^rd place goes to…

The Inugami Curse was one of the titles which quickly gained votes, yet in contrast Castle Skull took quite some time to move up the list.

Again 2^nd place is shared by two books…

The Woman in the Wardrobe surprised me, as within the first 24 hours this title was ranked as low as 9^th and by the end of the period had only gained 4^th place. However, as time went on it began to gain more votes.

Brian Flynn’s Tread Softly had quite the dog fight with the winner of first place, but just couldn’t match the votes of…

Quite a few people predicted this might be the winner, and those predictions have definitely been proven correct with this title ultimately gaining a 32 vote lead. This is not a book I have read yet, but I hope to get to it in January. It would have been quite the achievement if Brian Flynn had won for the second time, but there’s always next year, as I believe another 10 Flynn reprints are in the offing later in 2021.

I think having a larger number of books in the poll helped this year to contribute to the increase in votes overall and I did also like the wide variety of styles and publishers we were able to include. I hope everyone has enjoyed following the awards. Many thanks to all the bloggers who contributed, as it wouldn’t have been as much fun without you!

It has been another great year for classic crime reprints, and here’s hoping next year’s are just as good or even better!

Happy New Year everyone!