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Mandy wrote: "Please add Alex Rider:)"
I haven't read Alex Rider, and don't plan on it, so I can't add it. To add it, we have to be the one voting for it. But you can add it, and you should. To do so, go to the top of the list. Beneath the title, and to the right of it, are two tabs. Click on the one that says "add books to this list". Then you will get a window on the left that says "all", and a window on the right that is empty. If you enter the titles of the books in the Alex Rider series that you have read and rated, they should pop right up. If you have a lot of books recorded and don't want to have to check all of them, you can change the window on the left to "read", or even to a more specific category, if you have created shelves for Alex Rider books. When you see the titles, click "vote for this book". You can keep scrolling till you have found all the books you want to add, and you can also change the order by clicking on the number of your votes as they appear on the left and erasing the number, and re-entering the number you want it to be. So if you add ten books and the last one you entered was really the best, click on "10", delete the zero, and hit enter. That title should then rise to the top of your list.

I hope this will work for anyone and everyone who would like to add a title. Again, many librarians like me are volunteers, and no librarian will enter a title onto the list for you, but once you play with it a little bit, you will find it is easy and fun to do so yourself.

Note to all: "Action-Adventure" is a category with a lot of wiggle room, especially since the list's creator didn't even specify that the book must be fiction. If there are hard and fast parameters for this category, I will leave their definition to Goodreads employees.

However, whoever put Elie Weisel's Night here was one sick troll, and it has been removed from slot #255.

I noticed The Bostonians (#562) on this list. Funny, I don't remember it as 'Action-Adventure', although I admit it's been years since I've read it.

I can't see The End of the Affair (also #562??) as 'Action-Adventure' either, and that's one I've read far more recently.

Removed for being out of genre: Fried Green Tomatoes
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
The Bostonians
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Ding Dong Is She Dead?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

The End of the Affair
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

and

Double Fudge
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...

Booklovinglady wrote: "I noticed The Bostonians (#562) on this list. Funny, I don't remember it as 'Action-Adventure', although I admit it's been years since I've read it.

I can't see [book:The End of the ..."

Good call on both, and now they are gone.

Did 8 people really vote for "The Great Gatsby" as action/adventure? This must be someone's idea of a joke -- I can not imagine a book with less action or less adventure than TGG...

...and Pride and Prejudice? No action or adventure there (unless taking long walks counts as adventure). ;)

TJ wrote: "Did 8 people really vote for "The Great Gatsby" as action/adventure? This must be someone's idea of a joke -- I can not imagine a book with less action or less adventure than TGG...

...and Pride a..."

Not to even mention Agatha Christie right there on page 1. Sorry, but this one has gotten away from me, and I'm not sure there's any redemption for it now. It's pretty far gone.

The Great Gatsby???? Animal Farm???? LOTS of inappropriate titles listed.

Chris wrote: "The Great Gatsby???? Animal Farm???? LOTS of inappropriate titles listed."

When you find a title clearly out of genre, please leave both the title, as you did, and also the book# listed beside it. I don't have time to comb through 22 pp. looking for them, but if you tell me where they're located, I'll be happy to zap them.

How do I bookmark this list or any list for that matter?

Holy spammers Batman!
On one day near early February, give or take a month, these spam accounts liked a big bunch of books (about 12-18) within about 5 minutes, and votes for all of them on several lists as a batch but in randomized order in coordination with several (a few dozen) other accounts doing the same. This is the pattern of the spam accounts.

Virtually everyone voting for The Polymorph and Excordia are in this pattern. Please help me report these accounts. It is too much labor for just me to clean it up. It will take all of us weeks of reporting before these spam accounts are all deleted.

These books have been inflated by the spammers.
The Polymorph
Service Model
The Blighted Stars
The Folded Sky
Cascade Failure
Exordia
War Bodies
Machine Vendetta
The Stardust Grill
…

Steve wrote: "Holy spammers Batman!
On one day near early February, give or take a month, these spam accounts like a big bunch of books (about 12-18) within about 5 minutes, and votes for all of them on several ..."
Steve, I cringe to admit this, but I don't actually know how to identify spam accounts...?

Spammers use bogus accounts to positively rate books (artificially increasing the rating) and vote for books on lists that would otherwise have no demand or interest. This becomes evident when a book you’ve never heard of that wasn’t on the list recently and is suddenly very high on the list or at the top of a list the next day. The rise wasn’t natural and gradual. For example, suddenly 42 users have voted for the book.

There is actual a list of books the benefitted from spamming.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

This is the worst offender of all time in my experience. A book that wasn’t on any list a couple years ago and then within a single month was top 10 on a multitude of lists.


I’ve seen a few lists where books by Gleb Tsipursky were the top 5 and clearly all voters are spam.

Those are examples but back to this list. Go to any of the books in my list (I’ll update it), such as The Polymorph. At the moment, it is #64. Just right of the Vote For This Book button it will have a score and a say how many users voted for it. At the moment, it says 43 people voted. That is a link and you can click on it (please do) and you’ll see a list of the 43 users who voted for it. Then, click on one of the users. It will show you the books they voted for on this list. You’ll see the pattern I mentioned above, they voted for about 12-18 books. Right now, a user named Sidney is the first voter. She voted for 14 books.

Then, you can click on her name to visit her account. This is what you will see. On February 26, in a 5 minute period from about 4:21am to 4:26am, she suddenly rates all of these books.
If you look to the right, there is a LISTOPIA VOTES section. You can see she voted for this list of 14 books on about 16 lists. The order is randomized on each list, but it’s the same books.

Now go to the other voters on who voted for the book. You’ll see the same pattern. They voted for 12-18 books that will look just about the same. That user will have rated all of these books with 5 minutes of each other, and voted for them on a couple dozen lists.
This is spammers artificially inflating the ratings of these books and voting for them on lots of lists to drive them up the rankings. These are bogus accounts, or possibly hacked accounts. But these votes and ratings are clear a coordinated effort to drive all of these books up in ratings and rankings all within about a 1 month time frame. These accounts should be deleted.