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message 1: by Ayo (new)

Ayo Odun Dance of Lies, Exquisite Ruin, Home Grown Magic and The Sun Blessed Prince are all romances/romantasy and do not meet the requirements for this list.


message 2: by Ayo (new)

Ayo Odun Can people stop adding romantasy to this list???? Multiple romantasy have been added and voted on my multiple people. It’s making this list unusable. I made this lost to specifically highlight non-Romantasy adult SFF because it’s getting more difficult to find considering most other SFF lists get filled with YA or Romantasy. Stop. It.


message 3: by Sara (last edited Apr 04, 2025 09:08AM) (new)

Sara Ayo wrote: "Can people stop adding romantasy to this list???? Multiple romantasy have been added and voted on my multiple people. It’s making this list unusable. I made this lost to specifically highlight non-..."


Hi Ayo, I understand and share your frustration. I have looked up in the help page and, if you are a librarian, you can remove books from the your list. I think it's pretty stupid that the list owners cannot do it without being a librarian.

"Next to the description of the list, there's a link that says "(edit)". After you click on that, it will take you to another page. There's a link at the bottom: "remove particular books". It will then take you to a list of the books; "delete this book from the list" links are on the right."

If you are not a Librarian, you can submit your request to remove the books in the librarian group here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I hope this helps.


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