Books that Exceeded your Expectations
These are books that pleasantly surprised you. They could be classics that you really loved or more recent fiction that just caught you off guard by its greatness.
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Same here.


Despair not! That simply means expectations were piss poor to begin with. :)

This was the first book I read since high school, and it just drew me in and reminded me how much I love and miss reading. For that reason it will always be one of my favorites.


And yes, I only voted for books that exceeded my expectations, not the ones that lived up to it :-) Some authors I expect exceptional books from, like Jane Austen, George Eliot, Margarat Atwood, Thomas Hardy, and so on, and I've have never been disappointed so far. But their books do not exceed my expectations, as I already expected a lot of them before I started.
@Hercina
You are not the only one with doubts about this list :-)

Same here."
I'd have to say I was the opposite. I heard so many great things about the Hunger Games and then I was really disappointed by the development of the plot and the characters. I feel like the story had a great concept but that the characters ruined it for me.


Did all the books you voted for show up as 'read' in this Listopia?


This is an interesting concept for a list. I found myself trying to decide how to order my votes--by how much I liked the book, or by how surprised I was? (I went with the surprise factor.) Then I began looking for common threads. I noticed that a relatively small number of my choices were books I'd purchased for myself. I guess I am a conservative shopper. I was more likely to be surprised and delighted by books I was required to read when I was in school, and by review copies I received for free. Fiction surprised me more often than nonfiction.
Great idea, Rob.

Thanks Grace as it made me happy to read what you wrote. I read so many bad reviews of Twilight on goodreads that I almost didn't read it. I was amazed how much I liked so I don't trust goodreads reviews anymore.

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The list is broken; long live the list.

Yeah, I guess it's a category that is doomed to outgrow itself, since it can never be edited down. Hadn't thought of it.


I agree with you. I don't understand its popularity. I read it so I could do all the quiz questions.

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Try lists of most horrible books, books one doesn't like, and so on. They won't appear as the first few there 😃

Eat Pray Love was a real disappointment. They made a movie of it. Why?

The Twilight exceeds any expectations of Meyer's writing.


This was the first book I read since high school, and it just drew me in and reminded me how much I love and miss reading. For that reaso..."
I for sure have to agree with you on this one! It was a page turner for me - the whole series honestly
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