Holocaust

[close] Join us for a special discussion on Friday, 28 March when Fiona McIntosh will be answering your questions about The Lavender Keeper and recent release, The French Promise.

[close] A place to discuss all the unique aspects of Deaf culture as highlighted in the thriller Silent Fear (A novel inspired by true crimes) by Lance & James Morcan. This group can also be an intersection of sorts where Deaf and hearing people can engage and learn from each other.

[close] A group set forth to discuss openly and honestly past genocide through genocide of today. Predominantly focused on the atrocities of WW II, including before, during and after material. We can discuss historical novels but mainly focus on actual historical events as documented by those that bore witness and survived as well as documented research presented by scholars of Holocaust history.

[close] Is anyone else tired of seeing Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance novels at the top of every list? The goal of this group is to root out, with your help, the highest rated books on goodreads. Thousands of books were consolidated from many different lists; unfortunately, not every book has been included in this analysis. Thus I create this group for help rooting out books that have been missed (or that have been erroneously excluded). I'm creating this as a Group instead of a List so that I can enable discussions/polls, and so that I can (somewhat) lock-down the bookshelves. To calculate the Top Rated Books, I have borrowed IMBDs Bayesian estimate formula to calculate a weighted rating. The use of Bayesian estimates ensures that a book with only a few hundred ratings, all at 5-stars, would not rank above "the Book Thief", for example, with a 4.37 average from over 500,000 ratings. The fewer ratings/votes a book has, the closer its weighted "bayesian" rating is to the mean rating of books queried, while the more votes/ratings a book gets, the closer its weighted "bayesian" rating gets to the pure average/mean for that individual book. EXCLUDED: books with less than 3,000 ratings books with a statistically weighted average less than 4-stars. non fiction (poetry/self-help) omnibus (box sets/complete works/short stories/collector's editions) romance (ya romance) childrens graphic novel prequel/sequel [only the first book in any series has been included] NOTE: The formula for calculating the Top Rated Books gives a true Bayesian estimate: weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C Where: R = average for the book (mean) = (Rating) v = number of votes for the book = (votes) m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top Rated (currently 3000) C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 3.5)