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message 1: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman This list is a popularity contest. If the book does not have 100,000 ratings I will eventually delete it. However, I expect there are more nonfiction books on goodreads that I missed - so go forth and find them.


message 2: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Removing 10 books for having less than 100,000 ratings - removed After The Prophet, The Gulag Archipelago, Dreams From My Father, Man's Search for Meaning, The Warmth of Other Suns, The Guns of August, From Dawn to Decadence, Guns Germs and Steel, Kitchen Confidential, Survival in Auschwitz,


message 3: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Just reminded of http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/n.... I'll be curious to see how many books from that list could be on this one.


message 4: by Sophie (new)

Sophie Mitchell wrote: "Just reminded of http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/n.... I'll be curious to see how many books from that list could be on this one."

Oddly, that list seems to be incorrect in the number of ratings for several books. It says A Short History of Nearly Everything has 161,018 ratings, but when you go to the book's page, it has 94,468. What gives, Goodreads?


message 5: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Sophie wrote: "Mitchell wrote: "Just reminded of http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/n.... I'll be curious to see how many books from that list could be on this one."

Oddly, that list seems to be incorrec..."


That's because it is actually showing the number of books shelved as the number of books rated. Seeing the number of books shelved AS a shelved number would be an interesting addition.


message 6: by Jenny (new)

Jenny On the Road and The Shack are not nonfiction.


message 7: by [deleted user] (new)

Jenny wrote: "On the Road and The Shack are not nonfiction."

I was also surprised to see Eat, Pray and Love on here as I thought that was fiction.


message 8: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman I was also surprised to see Eat, Pray and Love on here as I thought that was fiction."

I checked again and Eat, Pray and Love is a non-fiction memoir. That said, it can be confusing to decide what is and what isn't non-fiction - I've definitely got it wrong at times.


message 9: by [deleted user] (new)

I learn so much here.


message 10: by Julie (new)

Julie The Memory Keeper's Daughter is fiction.


message 11: by [deleted user] (new)

Julie wrote: "The Memory Keeper's Daughter is fiction."

I will delete it.


message 12: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Added a new nonfiction list for nonfiction with 10,000 to 24,999 ratings. Still think these lists are missing quite a few books though.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...


message 13: by Luke (new)

Luke Autobiographical novels =/= nonfiction.


message 14: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Aubrey wrote: "Autobiographical novels =/= nonfiction."

Are ALL autobiographies nonfiction? no.
Are ALL autobiographies fiction? no.

If you have a problem with a particular book, please post that problem.


message 15: by Luke (new)

Luke Mitchell wrote: "Aubrey wrote: "Autobiographical novels =/= nonfiction."

Are ALL autobiographies nonfiction? no.
Are ALL autobiographies fiction? no.

If you have a problem with a particular book, please post tha..."


It's your list. Do what you want.


message 16: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jun 21, 2019 05:15AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Jenny wrote: "On the Road and The Shack are not nonfiction."

I totally agree with On the Road being not non-fiction (haven't read The Shank) but so many people disagree... on other Listopia also.


message 17: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Booklovinglady wrote: "Jenny wrote: "On the Road and The Shack are not nonfiction."

I totally agree with On the Road being not non-fiction (haven't read The Shank) but so many people disagree... on other Listopia also."


I'm comfortable removing On the Road.


message 18: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jun 21, 2019 09:11AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Mitchell wrote: "I'm comfortable removing On the Road. ..."

So am I but I haven't done so, as so many people are convinced it is non-fiction... (I got into a discussion about it once and finally backed off because of the sheer number of people who thought of it as non-fiction). But as you are the creator of this Listopia...


message 19: by Heidi (new)

Heidi Little house in the big Woods by Laura
Ingalls Wilder is historical fiction. It
is not non-fiction.

#22.


Charlotte Igelkott Heidi wrote: "Little house in the big Woods by Laura
Ingalls Wilder is historical fiction. It
is not non-fiction.

#22."


Although I'm personally inclined to agree with you, a lot of people seem to have shelved it as non-fiction and the stories in the Little house series are (if I'm correctly informed) at least to some degree based on the author's own life. So I'm not removing it just now.
The Interestings, however, seems to be labeled as pure fiction, so I removed that one.


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