Less self published sock puppeting then I would have excepted- oh there it is.

There are lots on here that look great - I've just added a whole load to my TBR list

Decent list. Poaching a lot here.

Someone needs to keep kick out book with to many ratings. there are to many with over 10 K ratings

Ahhh there's the blatant self promoting.

[redacted by S.H.I.E.L.D.] wrote: "Ahhh there's the blatant self promoting."

Why not? It's a good book.

thank you for this list!

Voters of this list are likely to be interested in
The Most Popular Fantasy on Goodreads and the lists referenced on it, most especially:
Best Fantasy with between 1000 and 9999 ratings
Best Fantasy with between 100 and 999 ratings
Best Fantasy on Goodreads with less than 100 ratings

Given that the directions at the top say a soft rule of 5,000 I've gone ahead and removed anything with more than 8,000 ratings:

The Crown Tower
The Emperor's Blades
Among Thieves
Jhereg
The Black Company
The Dragon's Path
Luck in the Shadows
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Bone Doll's Twin
The Curse of Chalion
The Devil You Know
City of Golden Shadow
Rivers of London
Daughter of the Empire
The Briar King
Finnikin of the Rock
Titus Groan

Continued:

The Steel Remains
The Last Wish
Warlock
Annihilation
Gregor the Overlander
Raven's Gate
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Sword of Destiny
Blood of Elves

Not cool, dude.

To anyone who cares, this list was created a year ago by me as a corollary to the /r/Fantasy Underread and Underrated List, which was voted on and finalized by the members of /r/Fantasy and can be found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comme...

I've basically left alone any addition to the list that was relatively related to the original spirit of the list, but the original occupants of that list REALLY OUGHT to stay on the list. I'm going about re-adding them as I can. I am really sorry that the votes have been lost, and I think that it's really sad that they have been.

Amanda wrote: "To anyone who cares, this list was created a year ago by me as a corollary to the /r/Fantasy Underread and Underrated List, which was voted on and finalized by the members of /r/Fantasy and can be ..."

I'm confused. As the list creator - what exactly are the criteria for books on this list? Books that were on http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comme... and only that list?

Then I suggest you change the list description to say that - and drop any mention of the rest of the historical rules - or at least describe it as "this list was created initially by the following ... " but now you should consider it an absolutely static list and only pick books from that link. And no book should be removed from this list for reasons of ratings or anything else - unless it is not on that external link.

I for one pulled my votes from this list.

Because there is no way to make a list static, and because once a list is created it is considered property of the community, (and also because I read somewhere that librarians making edits to Listopia lists that are not absolutely necessary risk losing not only their Librarian status but also their Goodreads membership,) I was absolutely fine with books added to this list that were added in the spirit of the list. I did, however, create the list when the /r/Fantasy list was published while working with the creator and after it was voted on over at /r/Fantasy (www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy), so I truly feel those original books should *stay* on the list. I never thought someone would come through and just remove them without even dropping a note to me, given that I'm a fairly active user and very responsive to notes.

Were there a way to make the list static, I would have done it, but the reality is that there is not yet such a setting and that controlling voting and additions will always be a problem. If you want to see the original list, it's linked in the header or you can find it here: hhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comm... I have also got all the books added on a bookshelf on my personal page, which can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

This isn't the place to critique lacking Goodreads features, but with the limitations after I created this list, I've tended to post mine with Google Sheets links instead, despite the fact that there are some absolutely fabulous top threads over at /r/Fantasy and I've led a couple. Feel free to check their top lists found in the sidebar, voted on by members of the community, in the sidebar. (Note: I am not a mod, just a user who loves the community :D)

Amanda wrote: "Because there is no way to make a list static, and because once a list is created it is considered property of the community, (and also because I read somewhere that librarians making edits to List..."

As a librarian, when you remove a book from a list, you see the following message "Only delete books from the list that are totally miscategorized. Deleting books that aren't will result in a loss of librarian privileges, and possible deletion of account. We're super serious!".

That said, I became a librarian on Goodreads primarily to remove books from lists. I volunteer manage lists with very specific criteria some of which I created. Mostly the problem is author related spam, wrecking the lists with irrelevant books that no one will ever hear of. And of course random books that people drop in that are completely unrelated. Removing books for being above or below the number of ratings is typical. So I know a list such as this one could be managed.

For example - check out

Best Fantasy with between 1000 and 9999 ratings
Best Fantasy with between 100 and 999 ratings
Best Fantasy on Goodreads with less than 100 ratings

So basically what you are saying for this list is to librarians - feel free to remove any books with over 5000 ratings - but first verify that they are not on the static list. If they are, leave them alone.

But there are no minimums. I would suggest that for any book published since 2000 that there be a minimum number of ratings of 100 to keep most spam off. With the understanding that there as well a book on the static list would be left alone.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1) has 194,056 Ratings
hardly underread :) but it appears in reddit list with one vote. should it be removed?

I can't be bothered with this. If it can't be a static list then let it evolve naturally and let librarians remove books that don't fit the criteria, leaving a link to the original list in the description. Until then I'm pulling my votes.