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2019: What the Over-35s Are Reading
Over 35? This is where we can keep track of what we're reading this year. (Not our favorites from past years.) [Note: spam will be deleted if detected. Mostly what it will earn is the ire of the regular voters.]
Last year's top reads were Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, The Hate U Give, Before We Were Yours, Little Fires Everywhere, and The Woman in the Window.
Other fun lists:
Over 50s in 2019: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Born in the 60s 2019 list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
60s Women in 2019 list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
70s Women in 2019 list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Top 5 Reads in 2019: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
80s Women in 2019: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Born in the 80s 2019 list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Over-35s Are Reading By Year:
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Born in the 1960s - By Year What We've Read:
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Last year's top reads were Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, The Hate U Give, Before We Were Yours, Little Fires Everywhere, and The Woman in the Window.
Other fun lists:
Over 50s in 2019: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Born in the 60s 2019 list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
60s Women in 2019 list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
70s Women in 2019 list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Top 5 Reads in 2019: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
80s Women in 2019: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Born in the 80s 2019 list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Over-35s Are Reading By Year:
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Born in the 1960s - By Year What We've Read:
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Delia Owens (Goodreads Author)
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Becoming
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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Educated
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Tara Westover (Goodreads Author)
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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Heather Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,130,338 ratings
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The Silent Patient
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Alex Michaelides (Goodreads Author)
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The Great Alone
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Oyinkan Braithwaite (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 336,912 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,794,420 ratings
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Beartown (Beartown, #1)
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 559,237 ratings
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Nine Perfect Strangers
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Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
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The Lost Man
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Jane Harper (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 108,427 ratings
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The Library Book
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Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 121,630 ratings
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Circe
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 1,295,859 ratings
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An Anonymous Girl
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Greer Hendricks (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 179,023 ratings
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 3,900,575 ratings
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1984
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Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
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Kevin Kwan (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 539,670 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Sharp Objects
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,190,064 ratings
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The Alice Network
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Kate Quinn (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 600,684 ratings
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Pachinko
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 992,497 ratings
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Run Away
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Harlan Coben (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 75,428 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 833,795 ratings
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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4.24 avg rating — 1,960,812 ratings
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An American Marriage
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Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 381,128 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,613,998 ratings
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The Wife Between Us
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Greer Hendricks (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 435,725 ratings
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Little Fires Everywhere
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Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,289,546 ratings
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Animal Farm
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The Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 323,878 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 813,754 ratings
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Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family, #1)
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Chanel Cleeton (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 145,603 ratings
score: 534,
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Us Against You (Beartown, #2)
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 242,944 ratings
score: 524,
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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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Stuart Turton (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 463,366 ratings
score: 496,
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Spinning Silver
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 147,212 ratings
score: 495,
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Lock Every Door
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Riley Sager (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 284,454 ratings
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The Cheerleaders
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3.74 avg rating — 54,522 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 1,087,560 ratings
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,141,850 ratings
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The Au Pair
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Emma Rous (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 29,571 ratings
score: 460,
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The Secret Keeper
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Kate Morton (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 171,852 ratings
score: 458,
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Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
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Martha Hall Kelly (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 334,577 ratings
score: 452,
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Faithful
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 38,142 ratings
score: 447,
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The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)
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Elly Griffiths (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 42,742 ratings
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The Goldfinch
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3.96 avg rating — 1,018,061 ratings
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You (You, #1)
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Caroline Kepnes (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 285,329 ratings
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The Perfect Daughter
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D.J. Palmer (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 10,004 ratings
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The Hanged Man (The Tarot Sequence, #2)
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K.D. Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 8,036 ratings
score: 400,
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The Clockmaker's Daughter
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Kate Morton (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 105,431 ratings
score: 399,
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Americanah
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4.31 avg rating — 404,511 ratings
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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Mark T. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 377,399 ratings
score: 392,
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,445,148 ratings
score: 385,
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The Invention of Wings
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 329,156 ratings
score: 382,
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Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
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Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 206,351 ratings
score: 380,
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Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles, #1)
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Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 94,516 ratings
score: 380,
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Matilda
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4.33 avg rating — 1,083,440 ratings
score: 379,
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Lost Roses (Woolsey-Ferriday, #2)
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Martha Hall Kelly (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 59,203 ratings
score: 376,
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Things You Save in a Fire
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Katherine Center (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 169,249 ratings
score: 366,
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The Things We Cannot Say
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Kelly Rimmer (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 253,993 ratings
score: 366,
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 283,265 ratings
score: 361,
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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Lori Gottlieb (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 390,692 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,674,190 ratings
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How to Walk Away
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Katherine Center (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 117,193 ratings
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One Day in December
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Josie Silver (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 346,705 ratings
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Any Ordinary Day
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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
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Anne Bogel (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 19,999 ratings
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Dark Matter
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 677,986 ratings
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 643,818 ratings
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City of Girls
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 315,005 ratings
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Whisper Network
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Chandler Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 81,381 ratings
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The Huntress
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Kate Quinn (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 203,148 ratings
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Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 276,990 ratings
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One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
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Karen M. McManus (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,025,877 ratings
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The Whisper Man
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Alex North (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 189,077 ratings
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Once Upon a River
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 98,420 ratings
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Recursion
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 296,105 ratings
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How to Be Second Best
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The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
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Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)
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Uprooted
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 258,379 ratings
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The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 407,947 ratings
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The Woman in the Window
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3.94 avg rating — 869,048 ratings
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The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 242,693 ratings
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Final Girls
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Riley Sager (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 248,679 ratings
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Everything Here Is Beautiful
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Mira T. Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 20,047 ratings
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The Girl They Left Behind
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Roxanne Veletzos (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 17,988 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,921,192 ratings
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The Nowhere Child
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Watching You
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Lisa Jewell (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 215,717 ratings
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Yay! This time it stuck! "Scheduled maintenance" mumble mumble...
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Bettie, Whoops. I think I forgot to keep adding to 2018, and a long time ago.I'll try to do this for 2019. I think it's that I'm so much older than 35 I'm not sure I'm a good fit for these lists.
All over 35 welcome, I assure you!
Thanks for this list Susanna, I look forward to adding my 2019 reads to it :)
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "All over 35 welcome, I assure you!"Susanna, Great to know. I’d also love an over 60 or at least over 50 list. If I was more active here I might start one. As it is I’m grateful for this one.
Lisa wrote: "Susanna, Great to know. I’d also love an over 60 or at least over 50 list. If I was more active here I might start one. ..."An 'over 50' list would be nice 😉
Well, I could start one, given the popular demand!
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "And here it is: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... ."Thanks, Susanna!
What if you're 49... and approaching 50 quickly... could you vote on your list then? :)
Turning 50 this year, eh? LOL
Hmmmm...just a quibble Susanna - if you're going to have an 'over 50' list, why not make this 'over 30' or '30-50'? I always thought '35' was an odd number to start with but I always thought 'everyone over the age of 35, ok, that means everyone over the age of 35'. Is this going to split the numbers or are those that are over 50 also going to add books to this over 35 list too?
I must say I quite like the 'over 35' list... (even thought there is now an 'over 50' list as well). As far as I'm concerned, there is no need to change the 'over 35' list, but that's just my personal opinion.
I didn't start this list in the first place, Penny, so I don't know why 35 was chosen. (I think the original starter of this concept of list has left GR?)
I put books on both, for what it's worth.
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "I put books on both, for what it's worth."So did I.
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "I didn't start this list in the first place, Penny, so I don't know why 35 was chosen. (I think the original starter of this concept of list has left GR?)"Yes I think they have. I remember you re-starting this one for us a few years ago. I forget why their particular criteria was over 35...it will just be interesting to see if those over 50 favour one or the other. I'm over 35 but not yet there in the over 50 bracket, so no biggie for me. I'm just interested in stats hehe!
Just a short note for anyone new to the list - this list is for the books we've read this year, in 2019, not favorites from any year, like most lists.
. . and the spammers are back. The #1 book is bogus.
Not anymore. Removed for being spam: Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love.
How can you tell it is spam? Just curious...
The only thing the voters had ever done in Listopia was vote this book, and this book only, on to many lists. A book with very few ratings.
Ah, thanks! Do you watch each book that diligently or do you get some sort of notification?
When the list is short like it is now, these sort of stand out. Its a red flag when the top book is some unknown title with very fewer readers.
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Not anymore. Removed for being spam: Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love."Thanks!
Thanks for sating my curiosity :) Also thanks for taking care of this list! I love it!
Lisa wrote: "Ah, thanks! Do you watch each book that diligently or do you get some sort of notification?"I don't get a notification (except from other voters who notice it, like Pat did), but it's more common than you might think on Listopias, and the signs just jump out at you at a certain point.
Removed, once again, for being spam: Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love.Let me add that this is a terrific way to convince me to never read this book, and I read historical fiction. If I were the author, I'd try to discourage this spamming.
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Let me add that this is a terrific way to convince me to never read this book, and I read historical fiction. If I were the author, I'd try to discourage this spamming."Agreed!
It's on the 70s list again, btw. (400 and something?)
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "It's on the 70s list again, btw. (400 and something?)"They are nothing if not persistent...
6,000 ratings is high for a spam book, but #1 is looking very suspicious. Just look at the voters: 13 "1 of 1" votes (this in June), and 1 actual regular voter on this list. (Not removing because of that one real vote.)I hate fanboy spamming.
Hmmm. 1 of 1 sounds very suspicious to me too... Now, if it were January but it is June, for Pete' sake.
Yeah, 13 "1 of 1" votes, and 1 legitimate vote ("31 of 49" I think). Totally non-suspicious in June. Also most of the 13 voted this book, and only this book, onto a succession of lists. Totally kosher.
Blood River seems to have been spammed to the top of the list.
I haven't removed it because it has 1 legitimate vote. To the 15 other fangirls: congrats, I'll never read this now.
For whatever reason, the author of Blood River seems to have a team of people spamming his books to the top of multiple lists. Sometimes relevant, sometimes not.
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Yeah, 13 "1 of 1" votes, and 1 legitimate vote ("31 of 49" I think). Totally non-suspicious in June. Also most of the 13 voted this book, and only this book, onto a succession of lists. Totally kosher..."Maybe.....it's an idea for the creator of a list to remove the book and contact the legitimate voter(s) to let her/him know the book has been removed and why? Provided the creator is a librarian of course. Because there must be something we can do about spamming lists...
All I can say is that it's not going to be in my list of next year's 'last year's most top reads were...'
I created a list to try to capture those books that are something not quite spam as https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/131399.Surprisingly_Popular_Listopia_BooksNote the Tim Butcher books at the top.
Not quite enough yet to put it on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7... , but it's creeping up there.
Blood River has just been spammed to the number two position.
Rainbowheart wrote: "For whatever reason, the author of Blood River seems to have a team of people spamming his books to the top of multiple lists. Sometimes relevant, sometimes not."Have you contacted the author about it? I've done that before. They were horrified that people were doing it. Not always the case tho - some authors are just so shit obviously if they have to have spamming teams...
I assume the author is orchestrating it, but I haven't contacted him to find out. Blood River is now sitting in the number 1 position. Really ruins the integrity of the list.
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