Tired of always seeing the same books at the top of lists? Well this list is for books that people may not of heard of.
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list created May 22nd, 2009
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Dec 26, 2010 08:09PM
What are Twilight and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone doing on this list?
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bookworm73 wrote: "What are Twilight and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone doing on this list?"i was wondering the same thing
bookworm73 wrote: "What are Twilight and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone doing on this list?"I removed them... Definitely not "unknown" books by any stretch.
bookworm73 wrote: "What are Twilight and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone doing on this list?"It's for the time travellers from the past.
James wrote: "bookworm73 wrote: "What are Twilight and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone doing on this list?"It's for the time travellers from the past."
Hope that means more remarkable books are on their way :)
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Dragons and Cicadas. Such an underrated book of short stories! It's like a worldbuilding-novel, but it's not! So much happens in it!
Why is City of Bones on this list? Take it off! No mainstream books allowed.
You know what I'd do if it were my list? Take off everything with more than 1000 ratings. the Prophet, the Red Tent, and Childhood'd End are on page 1, with millions of copies in print of each. I'm actually interested in a list of unknown books that people think are good, but this isn't quite it because of all those well-read books. Thanks for the idea!
Popular BOOKS - DOES NOT FIT THE LIST.Hey,Bob ,it'd be nice if you could remove them
City of Bones
Willow
The Night Circus
Graceling
Red Tent
Beautiful Creatures
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Sharon wrote: "The Prophet should not be on ths list"My thoughts exactly, as should not be a few other works in this list.
Water for Elephants with over half a million ratings doesn't belong on this list. I suggest that the list creator suggest a number of ratings limit. I have a similar list with children's books where I suggested a 25K limit.The Subtle Knife with several hundred thousand ratings is another example.
I'm sorry no offence but I can see some books with over thousand ratings and they're 'unknown'?That's...weird.
Salma wrote: "I'm sorry no offence but I can see some books with over thousand ratings and they're 'unknown'?That's...weird."I have a similar list for children's books. Forgotten Kids Books of Quality
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
While this list doesn't have any set limit I've drawn the line for "unknown" for mine at 75,000 ratings. So I'm guessing that at 1000 ratings anything on this list can be considered unknown by most people.
I just deleted a lot of books which for sure are not unknown.. (more than 100k reviews, some with millions of reviews..)
#835 Mere Christianity by CS Lewis?#1917 The Other Boleyn Girl?
#2227 Silence?
#2237 The Good Earth?
#2305 The Practice of the Presence of God?
Mavis wrote: "Perhaps it would make sense to delete everything with more than 100 reviews; that would ensure that only truly obscure books are on here."While you touch on a VERY valid point, GoodReads is very touchy on the subject of deleting books from listopia lists. Goodreads librarians (like me) CAN delete books from these lists but there are dire warnings about losing our librarian status if we go too far.
I've created a list called Unsung Works of Genius in which I set the limit to only those books with less than 1000 ratings. Perhaps you should check that out.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
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