A list to let you vote on your favorite books that have previously been selected as a group read in the Catching Up on Classics (and lots more!) group.
Please do not add any books to this list that are not already on the group bookshelf.
Please do not add any books to this list that are not already on the group bookshelf.
Tytti
3342 books
50 friends
50 friends
siriusedward
5651 books
69 friends
69 friends
Leni
4033 books
197 friends
197 friends
Virginia
944 books
57 friends
57 friends
~☆~Autumn
8066 books
145 friends
145 friends
Darren
2188 books
90 friends
90 friends
Melanti
3256 books
71 friends
71 friends
Kelly B
2127 books
405 friends
405 friends
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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.
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.
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.
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!
Duane wrote: "Someone still needs to add Uncle Tom's Cabin."Oh, I'll do it. I've actually read that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Just added The Pearl and The Remains of the Day. I think the list is both up to date and accurate????
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...?
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :-)
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:-)
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.
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 ...
Lynn, thank you for putting up Pygmalion, I tried but the photo would not post. Now our list is up to date, thanks again.
Removed duplicate:These were both on the list. I have removed the second one.
1984 by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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....
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.
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.
there are a "shed-load" (more than 10!) of books that seem to have been added which aren't on our shelvesis just anybody allowed to add?
Darren wrote: "there are a "shed-load" (more than 10!) of books that seem to have been added which aren't on our shelvesis 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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