I'm almost wondering if this category needs a different type of draft.
From what I have experienced, there are very few people who read many different types of books. More often people read a few different genres. I know myself I could probably fit 80% of what I read into 3 categories (as listed).
Remove the wildcard and at the half way point add a mulligan, then every 2nd round everyone had another mulligan. This will let the people with a wide breadth of reading knowledge select from most/all categories, and those, like me, who don't have a wide a breadth, to include a few more from the categories they know better. So in a round with 20 categories, at 10 you get a wildcard, 12 another, and so on. Everyone would still be forced to take 14 different categories, but it would allow lots of flexibility if there is one category where a person could recommend 2 or 3 different options.
That would let people like sadora or FanIn80 to provide extra picks in a category that the rest of us (it appears) knows very little about. If sadora knows 20 good books in the cooking category, it would be a shame (from my point of view) to limit him to just one.
Just a thought
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