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7 Great Books Hitting Shelves This Week
Need another excuse to go to the bookstore this week? We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day.
To create our list, we focused on the top books Goodreads members can't wait to read, which we measure by how many times a book has been added to Want to Read shelves. All these highly anticipated titles are now available in the United States! Which ones catch your eye?
To create our list, we focused on the top books Goodreads members can't wait to read, which we measure by how many times a book has been added to Want to Read shelves. All these highly anticipated titles are now available in the United States! Which ones catch your eye?
You should read this book if you like: Nonfiction, immersive reporting from award-winning journalists, the sex lives of real American women, the complexity of female desire
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You should read this book if you like: Fiction, Other People's Houses, introverted heroines, bookstores and trivia nights, endearing suitors, turning a new page
You should read this book if you like: YA fiction, big debuts, mysterious boarding schools, spine-tingling horror, islands under quarantine, wilderness survival
You should read this book if you like: Fantasy, Theft of Swords, desperate battles to save mankind, witches and warriors, seeking peace, important songs, betrayal and vengeance
You should read this book if you like: Romantic suspense, Shelter in Place, small towns with dark secrets, landscape artists, the Blue Ridge Mountains, standing up for your loved ones
You should read this book if you like: Historical fiction, A Hundred Summers, World War II, spies and traitors, the Bahamas, the rise and fall of a legendary power couple
You should read this book if you like: YA fantasy, epic quests, Chinese myths and folklore, magical dresses and feisty tailors, court intrigue, cutthroat competitions
What are you looking forward to reading? Let's talk books in the comments!
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Super cool to see goodreads using reviewer's blurbs in the header. They should do that more often
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Goodreads/Amazon seem to be really missing the boat when it comes to recommendations "based on my reading". What happened to the touted algorithm.
Wow, what a boring AF book list. And where are non-American titles? Goodreads should crawl out of the cave. Pathetic.
I have "The Hidden City Murders: A John Granville & Emily Turner Historical Mystery (John Granville & Emily Turner Historical Mysteries Book 6)" by Sharon Rowse on Pre-order for Release on July 11/19
currently reading "The Golden Hour"
ARGH Ive been waiting to read Nina Hill for soooo long!!!
Already on the waiting list for Wilder Girls. Premise reminded me a little of Annihilation, which I enjoyed, and it has excellent reviews from Kirkus and Booklist (started, in fact) so I can’t wait!
Rain wrote: "Wow, what a boring AF book list. And where are non-American titles? Goodreads should crawl out of the cave. Pathetic."Being from Australia, I do notice that Goodreads is mainly based on American authors. I too prefer to read more 'International' writers, learn about different cultures.
Currently reading Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim and I'm loving it so far!
Karen wrote: "Goodreads/Amazon seem to be really missing the boat when it comes to recommendations "based on my reading". What happened to the touted algorithm."Same here. I get recommendations based on books I've given one star to.
I just finished reading The darkest star by Jennifer Armentrout...counting the days till book 2 The burning shadow comes out! I think the book Spin the dawn sounds really goood
The Just-About-Cocky Ms M wrote: "I ignore any and all "recommendations," alleged "Great Books Hitting the Shelves," and so forth because these "choices" are too often skewed by factors other than what many readers actually read an..."
I usually ignore recommendations because I continually get them, based on books shelved on my "Canadian Authors to Read" shelf, for books written by UK or US or Australian or other authors . That makes no sense to me at all. I even had books recommended based on books on my "Aborted" (did not finish) shelf! Maybe the real criteria for a recommendation is that the book isn't selling too good.
I usually ignore recommendations because I continually get them, based on books shelved on my "Canadian Authors to Read" shelf, for books written by UK or US or Australian or other authors . That makes no sense to me at all. I even had books recommended based on books on my "Aborted" (did not finish) shelf! Maybe the real criteria for a recommendation is that the book isn't selling too good.
This is such a boring list. Goodreads should actually pay someone real money to produce an actually useful list of new releases. This reads like the work of an under/non-paid intern whipped off using crappy algorithm in their lunch break.
The Just-About-Cocky Ms M wrote: "I think the opposite is true. GR allows--and ignores--so very many sock accounts that leave glowing, fake reviews to boost visibility, and allows "For Hire" websites to flood some of these books with paid reviews. Thus the alleged popularity."Very true. One with over 300 sock puppets gamed it's way onto one of these GR lists not long ago.
Philip wrote: "The Just-About-Cocky Ms M wrote: "I ignore any and all "recommendations," alleged "Great Books Hitting the Shelves," and so forth because these "choices" are too often skewed by factors other than ..."The Recommendations based on shelves is notoriously bad. It doesn't look at your shelf name at all, just what books it sees as "similar" due to it's algorithm. I'll get books that aren't even remotely similar recommended simply because the book it's going off of and the book being recommended are both Middle Grade, or something. So I end up with things like Realistic Fiction being recommended from my Harry Potter shelf.
It's a known issue GR has been asked repeatedly for YEARS to improve, but has not.
You can go to edit your shelves and select which you receive Recommendations for and which you don't. So, if you don't want to get recs based on your "Aborted" shelf (and why would you), just untick that one for Recommendations.
