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418 books · 175 voters · list created February 29th, 2016 by Tytti (votes) .
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Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes.


Tytti 4007 books
50 friends
siriusedward 5674 books
69 friends
Leni 4050 books
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Virginia 951 books
57 friends
~☆~Autumn 7549 books
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Darren 2116 books
81 friends
Melanti 3254 books
74 friends
Kelly B 2097 books
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message 1: by Tytti (last edited Mar 14, 2017 01:46PM) (new)

Tytti The books I added to make the list complete but haven't read (yet):

Rob Roy by Walter Scott


message 2: by Katy (new)

Katy Thank you to everyone for the team effort!


message 3: by Bob (new)

Bob A great list. If one of the goals is to see what the group favorites are, I'm only going to vote my 5 Star reads. It will be interesting to see how this shapes up as time goes on.


message 4: by Tytti (new)

Tytti Bob wrote: "If one of the goals is to see what the group favorites are, I'm only going to vote my 5 Star reads."

But I think it's interesting to see what books get read anyway. And remember that it gives 100 points to the first book, 99 to the second and so on, so I would also include at least the 3 and 4 star books. If you have voted for 30 books it will only give 70 (or 71) points to the last one.


message 5: by [deleted user] (new)

Cool as! Thanks for making this list :) so many of these titles are on my TBR list. It'll be great to refer to this list and vote along for my favourites.


message 6: by Nente (new)

Nente Great work, thank you people!
Voted up my favourites =)


message 7: by [deleted user] (new)

I'd like to think I'm not being biased here ... well, sure I am, but I believe The Count of Monte Cristo should be in the top 5, and at least in the top 10! Come on people, read it!


message 8: by Duane (new)

Duane Parker I just realized that My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier is not on our bookshelf.


message 9: by Melanti (new)

Melanti That would be a great choice for a group read


message 10: by Duane (new)

Duane Parker I added Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies. Someone still needs to add Uncle Tom's Cabin.


message 11: by Tytti (new)

Tytti Duane wrote: "Someone still needs to add Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Oh, I'll do it. I've actually read that.


message 12: by Melanti (new)

Melanti Can anyone vote for the House of Seven Gables?
I'm running out of room again, and was hoping to remove my votes for my least favorites.

If not, no big deal, I have read it and I can just remove my vote for something a bit more popular.


message 13: by Katy (new)

Katy Melanti wrote: "Can anyone vote for the House of Seven Gables?
I'm running out of room again, and was hoping to remove my votes for my least favorites.

If not, no big deal, I have read it and I can just remove m..."


I voted for it for you.


message 14: by Melanti (new)

Melanti Thanks Kathy!
Now I have a bit of extra space to play with.


message 15: by Duane (new)

Duane Parker Thanks for updating the list.


message 16: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Apr 01, 2017 10:01AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Didn't even look at the bookshelves, as I've run out of votes already... :-(


message 17: by Melanti (new)

Melanti Booklovinglady wrote: "Didn't even look at the bookshelves, as I've run out of votes already..."

The list is complete (at the moment).

Since these are the books the group has discussed, if you like the list and like discussing books like them, you might enjoy the group.


message 18: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jul 17, 2016 10:37AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Melanti wrote: " if you like the list and like discussing books like them, you might enjoy the group. ..."

Thanks for the offer but I'm moderator of a Dutch/Flemish group and am spending too much time on GR as it is. Don't get me wrong, I love it, just like I love reading ;-) But I'm smart enough not to join other groups anymore, like I used to, because I know don't have enough spare time to do so.


message 19: by Nathan (new)

Nathan Marsh I'm so excited to have stumbled upon this list. I've sent myself an email to get truly catching up on so many of these. I've only read 17 of them! GAH! Maybe this will be one of my resources for bingo next year.


message 20: by Katy (new)

Katy Nathan wrote: "I'm so excited to have stumbled upon this list. I've sent myself an email to get truly catching up on so many of these. I've only read 17 of them! GAH! Maybe this will be one of my resources for bi..."

Great idea on the Bingo!


message 21: by Duane (new)

Duane Parker I added the February read books on Jan 4, 2017.


message 22: by Bob (new)

Bob Just added The Pearl and The Remains of the Day. I think the list is both up to date and accurate????


message 23: by Melanti (new)

Melanti That was on there before, I swear. Maybe someone left Goodreads?


message 24: by Melanti (new)

Melanti but, yeah, with your additions it does look complete.


message 25: by Susan O (new)

Susan O I removed my vote from Ivanhoe and it disappeared from the list, so I added it back. Hope that was OK. Even though it wasn't one of my favorites, I gather it has to have a vote to stay on the list?


message 26: by Melanti (new)

Melanti Yep! At least one person has to vote for a book for it to stay on the list.


I just voted for it, though, if you want to remove your vote again.


message 27: by Duane (new)

Duane Parker Added Dead Souls today, 4-12-17.


message 28: by Karen (new)

Karen Ireland 🇮🇪 I am loving the reads and seen how many I can get through this year


message 29: by Katy (new)

Katy Karen wrote: "I am loving the reads and seen how many I can get through this year"

Oh cool -- so nice to hear that Karen. I'm looking forward to seeing how many you read.


message 30: by Melanti (new)

Melanti Karen wrote: "I am loving the reads and seen how many I can get through this year"

Sounds like a fun plan! The group has read a lot of great books.


message 31: by Melanti (last edited Apr 24, 2017 12:07PM) (new)

Melanti For anyone who voted for Alice in Wonderland in the past, the most popular edition in the GR database was actually an adaptation rather than the real book, so when that was fixed a few months ago, it messed up a lot of lists & bookshelves.

I've deleted the adaptation and re-added the real thing, so if anyone wonders what happened to their vote, or wants to vote again, you should be able to find the right book in the list now.


message 32: by Darren (new)

Darren I had a problem with my "read" edition of Alice In Wonderland, whereby if I looked at the GR listing for "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" it appeared I hadn't read it(!), but when I looked in the list of editions, mine was shown!) I tried deleting my edition from my read shelf but it wouldn't let me! eventually I managed to delete it by moving it to another shelf first(!) I then picked the "default" edition (the one shown when you list Lewis Carroll's books) and re-entered it onto my read shelf - phew!!

Melanti - are you going to change the Listopia entry for Notes From the Underground to a non-omnibus edition...?


message 33: by Melanti (new)

Melanti Thanks for the prompt! I just fixed the Notes from the Underground entry.

Yep. I bet you (and hundreds of thousands of other people) have Alice in Wonderland shelved rather than Carroll's version. But it's odd that it wouldn't let you delete it.


message 34: by Darren (new)

Darren I think there is something VERY odd going on with "Alice" even as we speak...!! I am going to try leaving it for a couple of days then see if it's settled down...
Curiouser and curiouser... ;o)


message 35: by Melanti (new)

Melanti Well, I just added the adaptation to my shelves and was able to delete it, so not sure what's happened with your shelves.

I think part of the problem is that a lot of people search for "Alice in Wonderland" rather than "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The abbreviated title is what people are used to due to the film versions, but that's more likely to pull up adaptations rather than the original book.

Here's the edition I've been adding to this group's listings: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
It's actually the second most popular edition, rather than the default, since the default is a Kindle edition.


message 36: by Duane (new)

Duane Parker I've got my review and 74 likes attached to the other "Alice", so I can't delete it. I'll just add this one to my read shelf and have two, I guess. The same may hold true for Notes From the Underground also. I hope we don't have many more of these adjustments.


message 37: by Melanti (new)

Melanti This is the one advantage to always shelving the exact edition you read. Unless the publisher re-uses the ISBN for a different book, you'll be fine.


Adaptations/omnibuses do frequently get combined with the full work by default then separated when someone notices, but it's really, really rare for it to be the primary/default edition.


message 38: by Duane (new)

Duane Parker Some of the latest additions to this list have only 1 vote (usually mine), so please vote for these books when you visit the site. Thanks.


message 39: by Karen (new)

Karen Ireland 🇮🇪 Katy wrote: "Karen wrote: "I am loving the reads and seen how many I can get through this year"

Oh cool -- so nice to hear that Karen. I'm looking forward to seeing how many you read."


Thank You I have to-date 75 :-)


message 40: by Karen (new)

Karen Ireland 🇮🇪 Melanti wrote: "Karen wrote: "I am loving the reads and seen how many I can get through this year"

Sounds like a fun plan! The group has read a lot of great books."


I have to agree and new ones coming every month:-)


message 41: by Nente (new)

Nente Checking for duplicates removed 1 book. I'm pretty sure that was The Remains of the Day - perhaps another edition was wrongly added during a recent group reread.


message 42: by Lilly (last edited Dec 08, 2018 05:01AM) (new)

Lilly Somehow I've never realized about this list ...
I think I'd like to vote on it sometime, although it looks like a lot of work, sorting the books into a total hirarchy.
>.<
Scrolling through the list, I realized that most of those books I read aren't even marked as such yet ... I fear I'm never managing to get my books sorted and listed on my own goodreads shelf ...


message 43: by Bob (new)

Bob Lynn, thank you for putting up Pygmalion, I tried but the photo would not post. Now our list is up to date, thanks again.


message 44: by J_BlueFlower (new)

J_BlueFlower Removed duplicate:
These were both on the list. I have removed the second one.
1984 by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell


message 45: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jan 16, 2020 10:49AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) J_BlueFlower wrote: "Removed duplicate:
These were both on the list. I have removed the second one.
1984 by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell"


Please say you've used the duplicate check... Since you're a GR librarian, I didn't doubt it when I read 'Removed duplicate' but then you said you'd removed the second one, and my doubts started to 'raise their heads', as it were....


message 46: by J_BlueFlower (last edited Mar 29, 2020 05:17AM) (new)

J_BlueFlower Yes and no: I actually removed the second one, as they appeared to be two different books, and wasn’t removed by the “check for duplicates” function.

I also ran the check just now, and it found no duplicates. There is 293 books on the list and 292 on the shelf. So one too many somewhere here.


message 47: by J_BlueFlower (last edited Mar 29, 2020 05:21AM) (new)

J_BlueFlower I have removed (= deleted) book 265 Denemeler by Michel de Montaigne


message 48: by Nente (last edited Nov 24, 2020 03:42AM) (new)

Nente Have we read The Eustace Diamonds? Would be strange honestly, being not the best Trollope and in the middle of a series, and I can't find it on the group shelf.

Edit: or Quartet in Autumn, or other books at the end of the list? There are 10 extra books at the moment.


message 49: by Darren (new)

Darren there are a "shed-load" (more than 10!) of books that seem to have been added which aren't on our shelves
is just anybody allowed to add?


message 50: by Katy (last edited Nov 24, 2020 10:37AM) (new)

Katy Darren wrote: "there are a "shed-load" (more than 10!) of books that seem to have been added which aren't on our shelves
is just anybody allowed to add?"


Unfortunately, yes. GR doesn't have a way to lock the list. I'll see if I can figure out how to delete books from the list.
https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...

If you could give me the book number on the list of books that don't belong that would help, maybe we can get GR librarians to remove them for us.


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