This website contains links to all of the entries submitted to the ACX review contests. I think the floor is pretty high and I've found a lot of gems in reviews that never made it to the site, so I wanted to make a way to browse them more easily. It is entirely vibecoded with claude code.
You can filter by publication year ranges, authors, and titles. Filtering by tag, you can find reviews from a specific contest year, reviews that were shortlisted or winners, reviews that review 2+ books ("multibook"), and books with multiple reviews ("2+ reviews") if you want to know exactly which books the posts-writing members of the acx readership go apeshit for.
Note that most of the links here (all 🗂️️️ reviews and a few 📖 reviews) will drop you to a specific heading in a very long google doc; it will take a while for it to load. Also, on mobile it will fail to take you to the specific header sometimes.
From the 2021* reviews, all the submissions were linked in Open Thread 168, the winners were announced in Book Review Contest Winners† and there was also a supplementary packet linked in the Plagues and Peoples review.
For 2022, the submissions were linked in Open Thread 220 and the winners are from Book Review Contest 2022 Winners.
For 2023, the submissions are linked in Open Thread 275 and the winners and honorable mentions are from Book Review Contest 2023 Winners.
For 2024, the submissions are linked in this dedicated post and the winners and honorable mentions are from Book Review Contest 2024 Winners.
For 2025, the submissions are linked in this dedicated post and the shortlist is from this open thread.
* These reviews are all actually from 2020; Scott just took a very long unplanned hiatus before getting around to posting them.
† unique to 2021, there is a table at the end with more information on all the contest entrants.
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