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What We've Read So Far in 2017
*Please only add books that you HAVE read in 2017*
For the books you've read in 2016, visit the 2016 list!
Just keep voting for books as you read them. Which book will we read the most this year? And for all you lucky people who read more than 100 books in a year, this will become your 100 favourite reads of 2017 list as you delete your least fave's as you go past 100.
FYI: This is the 8th year I've put this list together. Last year’s list generated almost 8,000 books with nearly 1,000 voters. The top 5 reads for 2016 were #1 Me Before You, #2 The Girl On The Train, #3, Winter, Cinder at #4, and The Martian at #5. Most of these being hit movies for the year.
Cheers everyone!
All year lists:
2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
For the books you've read in 2016, visit the 2016 list!
Just keep voting for books as you read them. Which book will we read the most this year? And for all you lucky people who read more than 100 books in a year, this will become your 100 favourite reads of 2017 list as you delete your least fave's as you go past 100.
FYI: This is the 8th year I've put this list together. Last year’s list generated almost 8,000 books with nearly 1,000 voters. The top 5 reads for 2016 were #1 Me Before You, #2 The Girl On The Train, #3, Winter, Cinder at #4, and The Martian at #5. Most of these being hit movies for the year.
Cheers everyone!
All year lists:
2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
Comments Showing 1-50 of 103 (103 new)
Happy New Year!!!! Woohoo! Great to be back Buggy!
Thanks for this list Buggy I will be adding to it soon. Happy reading in 2017.
Happy New Year!Thanks for doing the list again Buggy x
January Top 10
*1/31/17 10:04 eastern time
February Top 10
*2/27/17 11:57 eastern time
March Top 10
*3/29/17 14:30 eastern time
April Top 10
*4/27/17 11:17 eastern time
May Top 10
*5/31/17 11:36 eastern Time
June Top 15
*I added another 5 to the top to try and see beyond the much discussed spam books.
*6/29/17 11:54 am eastern time
July Top 15
7/30/17 15:13 Eastern Time
August Top 10
*8/29/17 10:19 Eastern Time
September Top 15
*9/29/17 10:00 Eastern Time
October Top 15
*10/30/17 13:50 Eastern Time
November Top 15
11/30/17 10:46 Eastern Time
As always, I'm looking forward to seeing what the results of the year's reading will be. :)
Happy New Year everyone! and thanks to Buggy for creating this list :)
The Bell Jar is on the list now (with one vote). Maybe this “old” classic will surface, since it just became a Project Gutenberg free download.
Thanks again Buggy! I'm hoping to get to 50 books this year :) 3 down...
Shannon wrote: " January Top 10..."9# the sun - This Book is Spam. All the votes on it are Spam votes.
Hello Booklovinglady . I didn't see your top comment until after i deleted then reposted my comment. Sorry. Booklovinglady wrote: Three out of the four voters have only voted for this one title, so based on that I'd normally tend to agree with you. But the fourth voter has voted for more than just this one book...."
The forth voter is the Author of the book and has voted for their own self written books.
Booklovinglady wrote: (Sigh....) If you are so sure and feel so strongly about it, ..."
i'll delete book then if no one minds.
Interesting; I didn't believe authors could vote for their own books on a Listopia anymore. (Perhaps it's just that they can't *add* them anymore?)Anyway, that looks like an author ring pushing each other's books.
Yuki wrote: "Hello Booklovinglady . I didn't see your top comment until after i deleted then reposted my comment. Sorry. Booklovinglady wrote: Three out of the four voters have only voted for this one title, ..."
I don't mind if you delete it. I can't understand why they still spam booklists, since it only annoys people and make you less inclined to read the novel. And spamming aren't very subtle... I mean, if a novel has 60 ratings, but 10 persons have voted for it...
Other novels on the top 100 who may be spam:
# 46 "The Rasping of Gilman" by J. Michael Milligan have one vote, by someone who only voted for 1 novel.... on A LOT of lists. And the name of the voter is J. Milligan. Hm? (But to be honest, he propably read it this year, since it's publication date is January 10th)
It's in the top 5 of the over 35's list, I believe. I believe sales are up; it's in the top 5 in ebook sales at Amazon.
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "It's in the top 5 of the over 35's list, I believe. This list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
no 1: 1984
no 4: The Handmaid's Tale
no 8:The Man in the High Castle (alternative history, Japan and Germany winning WWII)
no 14: The Plot Against America
no 25; Animal Farm
J_BlueFlower wrote: "The Bell Jar is on the list now (with one vote). Maybe this “old” classic will surface, since it just became a Project Gutenberg free download."It has been on my shelves for quite a while, but as I'm participating in the Winter 2016-2017 challenge of the Netherlands & Flanders group, I picked up the book today.
So rest assured, it will have another vote soon :-)
Are we suspicious of that Seraph book that appeared at #3? All the votes are 1 of 1, there are only 16 total reviews and 11 votes, and they are *all* five stars. The dates read are legit though. Really wish people would grasp the idea of these lists instead of just spamming one book with votes.
My first guess was an author ring, but I think this is a group of devoted fangirls voting this author's books up a variety of lists.ETA: They do, however, seem to legitimately be reading that this year.
But you weren't the only one whose spidey senses were tingling.
Based on the stats for those 12 voters, though, it looks like only four of those votes are actually legit (or as legit as a spam ring can be)--some of the 12 voters haven't even read a book at all this year, including Seraph, and others, including some of the 4 "legitimate" votes, have read other books in 2017 that they haven't added to the list at all.
What makes me reluctant to remove it is that some of them do seem to have legitimately read it this year.
Some of them have, yes. Can we remove the votes of those who appear to have not?
Unfortunately, no. You can either remove all votes for a book, or not remove any - there's no in between.
#4 Nostalgic Rain gets my spider senses tingling.
Sara wrote: "#4 Nostalgic Rain gets my spider senses tingling."Yeah, considering it's not out until July and most of the reviewers have zero friends....... And a good number of them (I didn't check all) are brand new members, joined in 2017. All of their photos look like stock photos, so I feel like they're trolls trying to disguise themselves as actual people. Come on, people, knock it off!
The book hasn't been published yet! The only credible explanation is that several people who got and read ARCs did so this year and then voted here. (Which is what it looks like happened, at least in part.)
The Bear and the Nightingale is out (#25 on the list currently), and I would really love to see it break into the top 5! It was FANTASTIC. I read it weeks ago and I'm still thinking about it. Just a little plug for a great book ;)
Vivian Amberville - The Weaver of Odds at 50, voted by a reader named Vivian and has the cover as their profile picture and an another reader whose only friend is the author... :'DKind of takes all the fun out of these lists. Which books are actual real reads?
Carly wrote: "Vivian Amberville - The Weaver of Odds at 50, voted by a reader named Vivian and has the cover as their profile picture and an another reader whose only friend is the author... :'D..."
I'm so annoyed by this that I've created a shelf called "Spam", which gives me a passive-aggressive outlet for my annoyance. I just add all spam novels from this list (and others) and then they have a spam mark when I scroll through the list.
I feel like 40% of the Top 10 is spam. Which happens at the beginning of every year. I really hope one year everyone can just play fair.
Where did this Vicious book come from at #1? It's been there for weeks, but most of the votes look like spammers with some real ones mixed in. Am I the only person on the planet who's never heard of it before?I'm looking forward to it getting kicked out of the top five...hopefully soon...
Does not appear to be an author ring. Many of the voters seem to have private profiles, so hard to say for sure - that can be just "I'm under 18," can be "I like my privacy," or it can be "I'm a spammer."My private suspicion is a pack of fangirls, but like I said, hard to say for sure.
Megan wrote: "Where did this Vicious book come from at #1? It's been there for weeks, but most of the votes look like spammers with some real ones mixed in. Am I the only person on the planet who's never heard o..."The book was published in the last days of December 2016 and it has over 10k ratings. I would say that means people have heard about it, don't you think? :) I've never heard abut the most of the books in top 100 but that doesn't mean I automatically presume the same about other voters.
Yeah, the current #4 is making my spidey senses tingle, but that's because 30 shelvings, 13 votes is more than a little suspect.
Gea wrote: "Megan wrote: "Where did this Vicious book come from at #1? It's been there for weeks, but most of the votes look like spammers with some real ones mixed in. Am I the only person on the planet who's..."The only reason I make that assumption is because most of the voters have voted it 1 of 1 but have thousands of books on their shelves and/or no friends (or who have no friends and no books). It's suspicious. I'm also not seeing it talked about *anywhere* else, when usually the books that show up in the top five is all over my book feeds. I have never seen or heard of it before, and combined with the info available for the voters, that makes it look suspect to me.
Anyone else call BS on Nostalgic Rain?
Shannon wrote: "Anyone else call BS on Nostalgic Rain?"Yep, that one's been on my "spammers" list for a while.
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Here's hoping 2017 is full of joy and far less loss then what we've just come through. Happy New Year! Happy reading!
FYI I've started this years list with the top 5 books of 2016 to keep it active. I will remove them once this list gets going to keep the count accurate. (NOW REMOVED)
Link back to the 2016 list...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...