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Anything with less than 100,000 ratings or shelved less than 1000 times as romance will be removed and without comment.
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All Time Favorite Romance Novels
Best Paranormal Romance Series
Young Adult Romance
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25,000 to 49,999
10,000 to 24,999
Less than 10,000
Romance Lists by year:
1980-1989
1990-1995
1996-1999
2000-2005
2006-2010
2010-2019
2020-2029
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All, Anthropology, Astronomy, Autobiography, Biography, Biology, Botany, Children, Classics, Climate, Computer Science, Economics, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Genetics, Geology, Geography, Graphic Novels, History, Historical Fiction, Horror, Judaism, Language, Manga, Medicine, Middle School, Military Science Fiction, Music, Mysteries, Nature, New Adult, Non-Fiction, Pagan, Pandemic, Philosophy, Picture Books, Poetry, Politics, Productivity, Psychology, Racism, Romance, Science, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Software Architecture, Space Opera, Steampunk, Travel, Young Adult
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Jan 21, 2018 09:50AM
Mitchell, I don't know if you're taking requests, but I'd totally vote on more romance lists if you had them.
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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?
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.
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...
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.
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 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
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.
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.
Very amused to see a call out to this list at https://bookriot.com/highest-rated-books-on-goodreads/
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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