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579 books · 388 voters · list created April 9th, 2012 by Elen Caldecott (votes) .
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Elen 102 books
322 friends
Dave 261 books
167 friends
Miriam 505 books
532 friends
Milly 246 books
2248 friends
Sarah 12494 books
287 friends
Fiona 186 books
254 friends
Catherine 30 books
202 friends
David 67 books
17 friends

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Comments Showing 1-10 of 10 (10 new)

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message 1: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Hope you don't mind but I just added about 50 more books to the list for you :o)


message 2: by Elen (new)

Elen Caldecott Sarah wrote: "Hope you don't mind but I just added about 50 more books to the list for you :o)"

Hurray! The more UKYA the merrier!


message 3: by Ela (new)

Ela YAY Knife of Never letting Go is number 1, but Sioban Dowd and Black Rabbit Summer should be higher up.


message 4: by Kamille (new)

Kamille I hope you don't mind me asking but why is Divergent on this list?


message 5: by Elen (new)

Elen Caldecott Don't mind you asking at all! I guess the person adding it doesn't know where the author is from. And, as far as I can tell, only the person who has nominated a book can remove it.


message 6: by Kamille (new)

Kamille Oh right. I was just a bit surprised to see it here.


message 7: by [deleted user] (new)

Good to see 'I Capture the Castle' so high up on the list. I think it deserves more attention than it has these days.


message 8: by Elen (new)

Elen Caldecott Skyla (Skoyklha) Happy Go Lucky and Lost in Books wrote: "I removed a couple of books that belonged to American authors not UK ones. If you want to list any that don't match I can remove them for you."

Thanks, Skyla, that's realy helpful!


message 9: by Cheryl (new)

Cheryl deleted user wrote: "Good to see 'I Capture the Castle' so high up on the list. I think it deserves more attention than it has these days."

Except that the description says "current" and, since it (and The Hobbit) were published before GoodReads existed, I vote they be removed.

Is the creator of the list still reading this??


message 10: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn Elen wrote: "Don't mind you asking at all! I guess the person adding it doesn't know where the author is from. And, as far as I can tell, only the person who has nominated a book can remove it."

Any librarian can remove it. Ask for librarian status.


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