Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.5 and above and With At Least 100 Ratings
To root out, with your help, the highest rated books on Goodreads. Please only include books with at least 100 ratings. Not all of these may be ones you yourself rate highly, but think it could be an interesting list.
NOTE: Please do not include layman-unfriendly textbooks or collections (box sets/complete works/collector's editions, that is, collections of entire books. Single volume anthologies can be included.) where the individual books do not score as highly - this could skew the list.
See also:
Top 100 Highest Rated Books with at least 10000 Ratings (fiction or memoir, one per series)
Average Rating of 4.5 and above with at least 3000 ratings
Average Rating of 4.5 and above with at least 100 ratings
Average Rating of 4.3 and above with at least 1000 ratings
Average Rating of 4.2 and above with at least 1000 ratings
Average Rating of 4.0 and above with at least 30000 ratings
Average Rating of 4.0 and above with at least 1000 ratings
Average Rating of 4.0 and above, 100 to 999 ratings, and published before 2001
Average Rating of 3.99 and below
Average Rating below 3.6
Average Rating of 3.0 and below with at least 100 ratings
Average Rating of 4.5 and above and with 10 to 99 ratings
NOTE: Please do not include layman-unfriendly textbooks or collections (box sets/complete works/collector's editions, that is, collections of entire books. Single volume anthologies can be included.) where the individual books do not score as highly - this could skew the list.
See also:
Top 100 Highest Rated Books with at least 10000 Ratings (fiction or memoir, one per series)
Average Rating of 4.5 and above with at least 3000 ratings
Average Rating of 4.5 and above with at least 100 ratings
Average Rating of 4.3 and above with at least 1000 ratings
Average Rating of 4.2 and above with at least 1000 ratings
Average Rating of 4.0 and above with at least 30000 ratings
Average Rating of 4.0 and above with at least 1000 ratings
Average Rating of 4.0 and above, 100 to 999 ratings, and published before 2001
Average Rating of 3.99 and below
Average Rating below 3.6
Average Rating of 3.0 and below with at least 100 ratings
Average Rating of 4.5 and above and with 10 to 99 ratings
2,054 books ·
3,595 voters ·
list created April 29th, 2011
by Melissa Dee (votes) .
Comments Showing 1-50 of 208 (208 new)


Yes, I noticed the same thing ... :(

And authors - if your book has only one rating, and that rating is from you - don't be cheeky! That's not what this list is about and you know it!
And for the last time - no boxsets!
So...let's tidy this up a bit and have some pride in our list!
I thank you."
Deleted:
Ireland-now the good news: the best of "Bread" Vols.1 & 2, 1990-1993 (only 1 rating, the author's own ... who also added it to this list)
The Heaven Tree Trilogy ("complete set" of Pargeter's Heaven Tree novels)
Vampire Academy Box Set

Not in the search function included in the lists feature itself, but you can open up another browser window for your own bookshelves and sort those by criteria such as "number of ratings" and "average rating."
Melissa: Is there a certain minimum number of ratings you'd like to see? If so, you could include it in the list description and we could at least TRY to weed out the non-compliant books every so often ...

ETA: Several on the list are currently less than a 4.5 rating. Should they be removed?

ETA: Several on the list are currently less than a 4.5 rating. Should they be removed?"
I'd be all for that -- several of those books were only added within the last couple of hours, incidentally, if I'm not wrong. Looks like this is a list to be closely monitored, at least for the time being!

Unbroken, by Lauren Hillenbrand
Clockwork Prince, by Cassandra Clare
Fiji, by Lance Morcan
The Journey is the Destination, by Dan Eldon
Tiger's Quest, by Colleen Houck
Offbeat Love Stories and More, by Jennifer Lafferty
Neverdark, by C.S. Einfeld
Control Switch On, by Ira Teller
Richard Halliburton's Complete Book of Marvels, by Richard Halliburton (I added it when it was 4.5, now it's 4.49! LOL)
Assam and Darjeeling, by T.M. Camp
The Twin Prophecies, by Nina Perez
Danger Danger, by Gerry McCullough
Hell is the Absence of God, by Ted Chiang
Saved by Cake, by Marian Keyes
Elemental, by Kim Richardson
Dark City: The Film Noir, by Spencer Selby

Unbroken, by Lauren Hillenbrand
Clockwork Prince, by Cassandra Clare
Fiji, by Lance Morcan
The Journey is the Destination, by Dan Eldon
Tiger's Quest, by Co..."
Susanna, that sounds like an awful lot of work! On behalf of those who care, thanks for taking the time ...

The way GR lists the average rating right next to the title on the list made this pruning fairly easy!


The Hunger Games
The Ninth Orphan
The Unwords
Undeadly
Catching Fire
Memoranda on Poisons
Tiger's Curse
Front-Line Diplomacy: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
The Complex
Tiger's Quest
El Rey: A Novel of Renaissance Iberia
Tiger's Voyage
SkallagriggTake What You Got And Fly With It
L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels
Lees Lieutenants Volume 3: A Study in Command, Gettysburg to Appomattox
Horses of the Camargue


Heck, I voted for an older, not-very-well-known children's book with 32 ratings, and I'd be ok with it being nixed. Even though I loved it, I gotta admit that it probably wouldn't be as well-rated if more people weighed in.

Exactly what I proposed on April 12th, to no effect until now...



life and fate
roots of the cypress
taash and the jesters
if this is a man/the truce


Removed for falling below 4.5:
The Whore and Her Mother (rating: 4.40)
PA Exposé (rating: 3.80)
Chocolate for Breakfast (rating 4.30)
The Magic Penny (rating 4.33)
Grande Sertão: Veredas (rating 4.49)
Jackie Leven Said (rating 4.29)

Honest, I think 100 ratings it too low a threshold. It's not all too difficult to mount a campaign to up-vote a book with so few ratings. If you want to stay in statistically solid territory I'd say at least 500 ratings is a good threshold.
I'd also recommend putting the threshold in the list description. I know some people will still ignore it or simply not notice it, but it would help a little.

Past, Present, and Promises
The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap
Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun Remedies, Proverbs, and Poetry
The Halfling's Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale
The Sibylline Oracle
Incandescent
This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It
Progeny
The Branch Will Not Break
The Endlands
Complete Short Poetry
Also removed, for having been added in contravention to message 1 above ("And authors - if your book has only one rating, and that rating is from you - don't be cheeky! That's not what this list is about and you know it!")
Fateful Firsts
Second Thoughts: A Collection of Poetry
A Candlelit World
Scrambled Egg: Poems and Other Confessions




1106 Grand Boulevard
99 Percent Perspiration: A Frazz Collection
A Wee Taste A' Craic
Ad Nomad
Amanda's Rib
Animal Magnet
Apart From Love
Best of All Possible Worlds
Bloomsday: The Bostoniad
Blues For The Prince (Carney Wilde #2)
Bold as Brass: My Story
Brother Wolf: A Forgotten Promise
Bunsen: un cómic de ciencia y chocolate
Carol Vorderman's Detox Recipes
Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology
Comic Book History of Comics
Cruel Cuts (Daniel "Sticks" Hetrick Murder Mysteries #2)
Diamondback
Die Manns: Ein Jahrhundertroman
Dorrie and the Witch Doctor (Dorrie the Little Witch #5)
Dorrie's Play (Dorrie the Little Witch #3)
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
El libro de la imaginación
Eye to Eye: Intimate Encounters with the Animal World
Fallen Superheroes
Fergus and the Snow Deer
Firefly: A Celebration
First, I Love You
Following Richard Brautigan
For the Beauty of the Earth: A Novel
Frazz 3.1416
Frazz: Live from Bryson Elementary (Frazz)
Girl Genius, vol 11: Agatha Heterodyne and the Hammerless Bell (Girl Genius #11)
Hank Shank VIII
Homebodies
Hot & Spicy: De La Cruz Saga
How To Be A Party Girl
In All My Sad Dreaming
Jephtha and his Daughter
Kinuko Craft: Drawings & Paintings
Land of Midnight Days
Last Words of Notable People: Final Words of More Than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History
Leben der anderen: Filmbuch
Loriot's kleiner Opernführer
Loriots Großer Ratgeber
Lysis/Phaedrus/Symposium: Plato on Homosexuality (Great Books in Philosophy)
Meditation on Space-Time
Miami Spy Games: Russian Zombie Gun, Episode 5 (Miami Spy Games #5)
Miami Spy Games: Russian Zombie Gun, Part Four (Miami Spy Games #4)
Miami Spy Games: Russian Zombie Gun, Part One
Miami Spy Games: Russian Zombie Gun, Part Three (Miami Spy Games #3)
Miami Spy Games: Russian Zombie Gun, Part Two (Miami Spy Games #2)
More Deaths Than One
Nick Knight
Origami Tessellations: Awe-Inspiring Geometric Designs
Pierre Et Gilles: The Complete Works, 1976-1996
Post
Shadow Man
Shadows of the Realm
Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide
Spectrum 18: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
Summer With Monika
Sämtliche Werke und Briefe
Teaser and the Firecat
The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook
The Bird Day Battalion
The Changeling
The Coming Storm
The Eclectic Abecedarium
The Golden Sky
The Good Girls
The Greatest Speeches Of President John F. Kennedy
The Heat of the Moment: Inspired by the Heroes of the 2007 San Diego Wildfires
The Ice Cream Cone Coot, And Other Rare Birds
The Impostor, A Love Story
The Jungle Of Peril (Puzzle Master)
The Little Stormdancer (The Lotus War #1.5)
The Lost Queen of Egypt
The Moon Coin (Moon Realm #1)
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume II: The Short Stories
The Orphan Factory
The Planet Of Terror (Gamebook)
The Spell of Zalanon: The Anti-Cats
The Steward
The Symbolon (The Sibylline Trilogy #2)
The Undertow of Small Town Dreams: Stories of Currie Valley
There's Corpses Everywhere: Yet Another Liō Collection (Liō #3)
Transmetropolitan: I Hate It Here
Travel guide to the haunted Mid-Atlantic region
Underwater Dogs
William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion
Window To Her Soul (Eyes of Innocence #3)
With His Dying Breath
Write with Fire: Thoughts on the Craft of Writing
Xoxo Hayden


This also shows that it's not difficult to go through this list, identify and remove these books. I made that list in perhaps 30-40 minutes.


http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/24...

THE MOON COIN won a gold medal in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards this Fall, but that doesn't always translate quickly into ratings or sales. For books not published by one of the 6 Goliath Book Corporations, things usually happen in slow motion.


Removed
Darkest Powers Trilogy - individual books do not score as highly (per original guidelines)
The Orphan Factory - 4.48 rating
Onyx - 4.49 rating
The Complete Works- individual books do not score as highly (per original guidelines)
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
The Steward - 4.39 rating
Southern Mystical Moments - 4.40 rating
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume III: The Novels
The Good Girls - 4.32 rating
Angels and Arrows - 4.14 rating
Reflection of Secrets - 4.42 rating
Saga, Vol. 1 - 4.49 rating
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen - 4.49 rating
Ashes of Honor - 4.48 rating
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: A Facsimile of the First Folio, 1623 - individual books do not score as highly (per original guidelines)
Bold as Brass: My Story - 4.47 rating
Hope Against Hope - 4.49 rating
The Eclectic Abecedarium - 4.49 rating
Loriots Großer Ratgeber - 4.45 rating
The Bird King and Other Sketches - 4.48 rating
Left because I wasn't 100% positive
Collected Fictions
Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume I: The Short Stories
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume II: The Short Stories
The Collected Poems, 1956-1998
The Complete Poetry
Robert Smithson: The Collected WritingsCollected Works
New Collected Poems
Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
The Bloom County Library, Vol. 3: 1984-1986
The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Feynman is also one of mine. I added it because it's fairly layman friendly, has quite a few ratings, and the individual volumes rate as high or higher than the collected works. Nor is it a textbook.

The moon coin's dropped to 4.47. I took my vote off, but there's four more,so you might work your magic on it.
Pretty sure The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes is a collection of works and not a single title.


Obviously, the books with fewer ratings may not be of the same standard as some of the other titles on this list. After all, what is a more reliable statistic - 2 ratings, or 20,000?

And authors - if your book has only one rating, and that rating is from you - don't be cheeky! That's not what this list is about and you know it!
And for the last time - no boxsets!
So...let's tidy this up a bit and have some pride in our list!
I thank you.