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470 books · 110 voters · list created January 8th, 2017 by Mitchell Friedman (votes) .
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message 1: by Sophie (new)

Sophie Mitchell, I don't know if you're taking requests, but I'd totally vote on more romance lists if you had them.


message 2: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Sophie wrote: "Mitchell, I don't know if you're taking requests, but I'd totally vote on more romance lists if you had them."

How about 50k to 100k with a 100 shelf minimum?


message 3: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Mitchell wrote: "Sophie wrote: "Mitchell, I don't know if you're taking requests, but I'd totally vote on more romance lists if you had them."

How about 50k to 100k with a 100 shelf minimum?"


As requested Popular_Romance_on_Goodreads_with_between_50000_and_100000_ratings has been created. I'll do some additional seeding in a bit, but it is yours to play with.


message 4: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Sophie wrote: "Mitchell, I don't know if you're taking requests, but I'd totally vote on more romance lists if you had them."

hmm. I'm almost thinking this list should split 100k-200k. and 200k and above...


message 5: by Sophie (new)

Sophie Thanks!


message 6: by Tasha (new)

Tasha How did NICU II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton get to the top of this list? It has less than 300 ratings.


message 7: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Tasha wrote: "How did NICU II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton get to the top of this list? It has less than 300 ratings."

Six times someone logged in to a goodreads account and went on this list and voted for that book. Goodreads does not enforce list criteria. Instead voluntary librarians do. And neither librarians nor list creators get notified when people add books to lists. Lists are not moderated in any fashion.

But if you ever see something like this on a list, just call it out in comments. And a librarian will usually quickly take care of it.


The_Paperback_Peruser Why aren't there any LGBT romance books in this list? :/


message 9: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman The_Paperback_Peruser wrote: "Why aren't there any LGBT romance books in this list? :/"

Very simple question, do you know of any LGBT romance books? Do any of them have 100,000 ratings? Are they already on this list? If they aren't, why don't you add them.

Also, there is another list for Romance books with 50,000 to 99,999 ratings


message 10: by Mitchell (last edited Nov 12, 2019 09:58PM) (new)

Mitchell Friedman lgbt romance is not an especially popular tag - its top books have only 13 tags.

But
lgbt is a much more popular tag but doesn't clearly indicate whether the book is romance.


message 11: by Mitchell (last edited Nov 12, 2019 10:32PM) (new)

Mitchell Friedman So looking at at the lgbt list, the first book on that list was Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. It has 3701 tags as lgbt but it has 2880 tags as romance. And therefore should be on this list. And of course it already is. Its 132nd out of 206. Feel free to vote for it - or not.


message 12: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Very amused to see a call out to this list at https://bookriot.com/highest-rated-books-on-goodreads/


Charlotte Igelkott Removed for having too few shelvings as romance:
Madame Bovary
The Accidental Tourist


message 14: by Sophie (new)

Sophie Worrying: Howl’s Moving Castle seems to have lost its romance tag. I suspect shenanigans, but since they got rid of the Feedback group, I can't actually ask.


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