Your TOP FIVE READS in 2019. No matter the genre, no matter the publication date, all that matters is that you read these books in 2019 and consider them your personal favourites.

PLEASE, DO NOT VOTE FOR MORE THAN 5 BOOKS!!! You may change your votes until 31 December, but 5 books is the max. number of votes for you at all times ;-)

Your Top 5 Reads by Year:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

!!! PLEASE, DO NOT SPAM !!! Anything that even slightly reeks of spam will be removed...
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Tags: 2019, top-5, top-five
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Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Might have a wee bit of spam at the top of the list.


message 2: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jan 16, 2019 10:59AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Might have a wee bit of spam at the top of the list."

Noticed you'd removed Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love as being spam on your 2019: What the Over-35s Are Reading list, so I've done the same :-) Thanks for noticing!


message 4: by Penny (new)

Penny Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "No problem."

Please continue to do so. Must be a sh*t book for them to keep re-putting their votes up. Good anti-read motivation that ;D


message 5: by Crystal (new)

Crystal Timothy Mean and the Time Machine is also a spammed book. Find it on a lot of lists with the same no-body accounts with no friends or profiles voting on it.

Anyway it can be removed as well? Please and thank you!


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Done."

Thanks Susanna.


message 8: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Spam alert at #21, Never Go With Your Gut.

Also, at least one person has ignored the instructions and voted for 15 books.


message 9: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Dec 19, 2019 02:45AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Rainbowheart wrote: "Spam alert at #21, Never Go With Your Gut.

Also, at least one person has ignored the instructions and voted for 15 books."


They must have read your note; when I looked just now there were only three people who voted for the book (and everyone one of them voted for this one book only).

Some of the voters with too many votes have their profile set to 'private', so I can't sent a message unfortunately.


message 10: by Crystal (new)

Crystal #12 Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters

Is definitely Spam. Same tells as before.

Does spamming a book on Good Reads work or something?


message 11: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Oh, it was a different person who voted for the 15 books.

The Never Go with Your Gut spammers are now at 4 votes and rising.


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Mostly what it succeeds in is irritating regular users.


message 13: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Dec 30, 2019 12:52AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) I created two lists for 2020 and neither of them are there :-( Looks like the same problem we had at the end of last year...

I tried it twice now (on the 27th and 28th of December) and gave up. I sent GR a mail about this problem.


message 14: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart As far as I know, if you create a list but no books are on it, Goodreads software eats it. So you have to put at least one book as a placeholder, or else it will disappear.


message 15: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Dec 30, 2019 03:34AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) @Rainbowheart
I've tried it (and now I have to wait until tomorrow...)


message 16: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Looks like a success! I can still see it today. :)

By the way, I deleted Never Go With Your Gut. Voted on by four accounts, all blank, all only voting for this one book on multiple lists.


message 17: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Dec 31, 2019 12:44AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) @Martha
Please change your 16 votes (!) back to five. Thanks


message 18: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Dec 31, 2019 12:46AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Rainbowheart wrote: "Looks like a success! I can still see it today. :)."

It seems to be working! Thanks :-) (although some people can't read and added books to a list that doesn't start until 2020).


message 19: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart It's almost 2020 in Australia and New Zealand, but not quite yet. Still a few hours to go!


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) I've been to NZ a couple of times :-) (I have relatives over there)


message 21: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Removed spam titles by L.E. Parker.


message 22: by John (new)

John Is it too late to add my top 5 from last year?


message 23: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Removed Syrian Brides. Promotional spam being added by the same group of people onto different lists.


message 24: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Feb 11, 2020 11:18PM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) @John
Like I said before: Go right ahead but make sure you limit your votes to five max (and make sure they are books you read in 2019).


message 25: by John (last edited Feb 12, 2020 07:07AM) (new)

John Booklovinglady wrote: "@John
Like I said before: Go right ahead but make sure you limit your votes to five max (and make sure they are books you read in 2019)."


Thanks! I love this exercise! It is interesting how little overlap there is - we're all reading different books, I guess. I'm also impressed by how many people are reading the classics.


message 26: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Feb 12, 2020 07:26AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) John wrote: "It is interesting how little overlap there is - we're all reading different books, I guess. I'm also impressed by how many people are reading the classics...."

It is indeed interesting to see how little overlap there is :-)

I keep a list of books I read (with the dates I started and finished a book). Do you too?


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads It's what I use the "Over 35s" list for - makes this and my "best/worst reads of the year" lists very easy to make.


message 28: by John (new)

John Booklovinglady wrote: "John wrote: "It is interesting how little overlap there is - we're all reading different books, I guess. I'm also impressed by how many people are reading the classics...."

It is indeed interestin..."


Yes - I do it on Goodreads! Goodreads has been keeping track of all the books I've read and when I read them since 2011. Before that it's just guesswork, though.


message 29: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Removed Finding Identity. Promotional spam being added by the same group of people onto different lists.


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Rainbowheart wrote: "Removed Finding Identity. Promotional spam being added by the same group of people onto different lists."

Thanks!


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