So, my initial thought was bubble wrap, but I can imagine that getting frustrating very quickly. Maybe moving walkways, like at the airport. I live for the efficiency of a moving walkway.

Best Fiction The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)

Best Fantasy Circe (Madeline Miller)

Best Romance Beach Read (Emily Henry)

Best Sci-Fi Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)

Best Horror The Left-Right Game* (Jack Anderson)

*not a book, but a long-form story on r/nosleep and now its own podcast

Best Graphic Novel Joe vs. Elan School* (Joe Nobody)

*a webcomic about a boy’s horrific experience with the troubled teen industry

Best Poetry All-American Poem (Matthew Dickman)

Best Young Adult They’re dated and definitely have their problems, but anything by Tamora Pierce

Best MG/Children's The Chronicles of Chrestomanci (Diana Wynne Jones)

Best Nonfiction The Anthropocene Reviewed (John Green)

STAR WARS ISN’T THAT GOOD, YOU JUST LIKED IT AS A KID.

I can beat anyone in Tetris.

I’m a perfectionist, but not in the fun Monica Geller way. In the, “One time I threw a plastic bottle in a garbage can instead of a recycling bin and spent the rest of the day sincerely googling how to donate a kidney to make up for it” way.