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2019 Challenge Prompts - Regular
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05 - A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads
Shannon wrote: "The Hogwarts house editions of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban are due next year, I believe, so I will be reading that while listening to the related episodes from the Binge Mode:..."A fellow Binge Mode listener!! I reread all the books prior to the pod, and next year I will do a reread alongside relistening to the pod.
I was actually surprised how small the list was. The most popular book I had sitting on my shelf was Angels and DEmons and I looked it up and it had over 2 million ratings. So, cool. But, when I found out there were only 66 books that had at least a million ratings, Angels and Demons making the cut made me sad.
This is the year I finally get around to the Harry Potter series! I have read the first book, so will be choosing the second novel in the series for this prompt. Thus I'm going to be reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
I just checked out the listopia that was posted and I've read 47/66 of the books listed :-(There has to be more books with over a million ratings ........
Anyway, I had enough to choose from on my TBR that I found something I wanted to actually read next year.
Yes, in the 66-title list, I'd read over 50. The ones I hadn't read (Dan Brown, Fifty Shades of Gray), I don't plan to ever read. So, this year, I'm reading either Anne Frank or Gone Girl, I guess.
I was hoping for Outlander, too.
We should clearly orchestrate a mass read of Outlander and put it up into the million ratings category.
Chinook wrote: "We should clearly orchestrate a mass read of Outlander and put it up into the million ratings category."Sadly I don't think re-reads count though if we've already rated it?! xD
Oh, we’d be taking one for the team I guess. Though there’s nothing that suggests to me that rereads don’t count. I’d totally use a Harry Potter for the task except I will almost certainly be done my reread of the series before the year ends.
Ahhh - you meant we can’t rate it twice. Yeah, true. I’m guessing the problem for Outlander is length. It’s a longer book than many that are on the list already.
I´ve actually only read around 20 of those on the list. I don´t know what that says about me... But I can see how it can be a very restrictive list. I would count rereads for this, especially if you have read a lot of them. (I took one for the team some years ago and read 50 Shades of Gray, the first book. If you haven´t read it and you don´t want to - don´t do it, I did it for you - you´re not missing anything. Sorry if anyone loves it.)
Stacey wrote: "Chinook wrote: "We should clearly orchestrate a mass read of Outlander and put it up into the million ratings category."Sadly I don't think re-reads count though if we've already rated it?! xD"
Not that I'm necessarily suggesting this, but maybe if you rated different editions, the rating would count again? :-)
Chinook wrote: "Ahhh - you meant we can’t rate it twice. Yeah, true. I’m guessing the problem for Outlander is length. It’s a longer book than many that are on the list already."
Yeah, that's what I meant! :)
Rereads totally count for the challenge but I don't think rating the same book twice on Goodreads from the same profile increases its' rating count.
Raquel wrote: "Stacey wrote: "Chinook wrote: "We should clearly orchestrate a mass read of Outlander and put it up into the million ratings category."
Sadly I don't think re-reads count though if we've already r..."
That would make sense if it counted for sure! Something that got me curious anyways! :)
I'll probably tackle either Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre. My female classics reads are on the low side.
I prefer the first to the second one, though I’m relistening to Jane Eyre now and it’s better than I remembered.
Raquel wrote: "Ooh, The Help qualifies! I picked that one up at a yard sale recently, and will probably also use it for the ATY goodread's choice prompt, since it's nominated in the 'best of the be..."Fitting the more than a million GR ratings prompt and a nomination for best of the best seems like a good enough reason for me to finally read it -- it also fits the 'A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y' ATY prompt (thankfully!)
That listopia list was quite useful, but I\'ve read most of the titles already. But sorting my TBR list by the number of rankings (great idea, thanx!), unveiled, that I have few possibilities mentioned before (Water for Elephants, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and The Perks of Being a Wallflower). But John Green's Looking for Alaska also fits :)
Definitely going with The Help for this one, I picked up a copy at a garage sale and I've been itching to read it for a while.
Kym wrote: "Leona wrote: "I have Angels & Demons by Dan Brown on my shelf."This is the first of Dan Brown's books that I read and it remains my favourite of all of them!"
yay I have this one too
Thanks for the people saying Divergent, bought the series for cheap on my Kindle a while back and its an easy one to tick off!
Also theres the first Percy Jackson book or the great gatsby if people want ideas!
There's (as of right now) only one option on my TBR: A Game of Thrones. God help me...Probably going to browse the lists ;)
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Probably going to browse the lists ;)"
I'm in the same spot: I've read most of the books already, and I've got ONE book on my TBR on this list, and okay yes it IS on my "TBR" but I don't really expect it to be good (Life of Pi). I keep browsing the list over and over. I've googled to see if the list is perhaps incomplete (no, not that I could find). I browsed the list again. Ugh!!
Normally I don't count DNF'ed books towards my challenge, but I'm willing to make an exception for this category.
Nadine wrote: "Jackie wrote: "There's (as of right now) only one option on my TBR: A Game of Thrones. God help me...Probably going to browse the lists ;)"
I'm in the same spot: I've read most of t..."
I loved Life of Pi, and I think I felt a bit like you did before I went into it. It's a good read.
I've already read it but it's a lot different than the others most often mentioned,so I'l pitch Gone Girl
I can only do so many re-reads this year, and I already have a few... I'm sticking with The Golden Compass. It was one of the only ones on my TBR that fit .And Life of Pi was equivalent to The Alchemist for me ...just UGH. I don't know.
Stacey wrote: "I found a listopia for this I think personally I'm going to tackle Divergent by Veronica Roth"
I was really excited about this list until I saw the only options that I had yet to read are The Notebook, Eat, Pray, Love, The Lightning Thief and The Girl on the Train. Not a lot to pick from and I'm vehemently against Nicholas Sparks books and Eat, Pray, love sounds like overly sentimental drivel so I guess I'll read some Percy Jackson.
Ohh... I went to my TBR list and organized by number of ratings and I found a few more options The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Time Traveler's Wife
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I think personally I'm going to tackle Divergent by Veronica Roth"
I was really excited about this list until I saw the only options th..."
when I saw the four titles you hadn't read, I immediately thought "ugh, read The Lightning Thief"!! so ... good call. :-)
(That said, I did really enjoy Girl on the Train and I gave it 5 stars, but I know not everyone loved it. Percy Jackson seems more of an all-round crowd pleaser.)
I read Eat, Pray, Love while I was getting divorced and as such I really liked it. There’s plenty to criticize, but as someone looking to make a big change about ending a marriage that also probably looked great on paper but did not make me happy and moving to Asia to work and live, a lot of it hit home with me at the time. I’ve no idea if I’d like it now - I’m a very different person now, married again but with kids, so if this ended in divorce, I’m sure I’d laugh in the face of travelling for a year to find myself after. That said, Percy Jackson is quite good and the audiobook has a very teenaged boy feel to the narrator.
So many choices. Probably going to be a re-read either way. I have been wanting to re-read both The Hunger Games and The Lord of the Rings trilogies.Also as someone who has read and re-read Little Women many, many times since I was a child? Absolutely recommend it. Also it could feel the Wedding task as could at least one book in The Hunger Games trilogy(just can't remember which one right this second).
I'm glad The Help is on there because it's on my TBR shelf and I'd planned to read it for 2018 (where I've already seen the movie) and am unlikely to get to it before 12/31!Anabell wrote: "I changed the settings on my "want-to-read" list to show "num ratings" and then sorted from highest to lowest. So I can pick from my TBR list.
These are some of the books with over 1 mio. ratings:..."
I'm picking up Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen for this prompt, it's been on my TBR list for awhile and I've been dying to read it! :)
I'm in the either read or not thrilled. I will probably just reread something. I often don't like the popular book, and like the lesser known books, the ones that are odd, or no one seems to know about. Which doesn't mean that I will never like etc. just that often the book everyone else raves about leaves me cold.
I am probably going with Romeo and Juliet.
Going to try my luck with Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Anyone else reading this year - or have read in the past?
I really liked Cloud Atlas. I knew nothing going in and was a bit confused at first but then I loved the connections between the various storylines.
Janet wrote: "Going to try my luck with Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Anyone else reading this year - or have read in the past?"Not that book in particular, but I read his Black Swan Green last year and loved it so much that I'm reading Ghostwritten: A Novel in Nine Parts this year.
I am also reading Ghostwritten this year (along with a book of the same title by Wolff)! If I like these two reads I just may need to read BSG at some point. His The Bone Clocks was really good if either of you are looking for another by him - it was my first by Mitchell that was a book club pick.
Looks like I might finally read one of the classics (Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice) or will see if all the hype was true about Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, both of which I own so that would count towards my personal goal of reading at least 20 of the books I currently own next year lol
Seconding Gatsby, or Little Women if you have not read it (well worth a read). Ending of Gone Girl made me want to throw the book across the room (which is good if a book makes you react so strongly, but still...) And to be honest, I read Girl on a Train but remember very little about it.
Alicja wrote: "The Great Gatsby is excellent!"Janet wrote: "Seconding Gatsby, or Little Women if you have not read it (well worth a read). Ending of Gone Girl made me want to throw the book across the room (which is good if a book makes you react so strongl..."
Thank you both! :) I think I will have to go with The Great Gatsby! And could use Little Women for the family prompt.
Janet: You are not the first person I have heard say that about Gone Girl lol! I'll still read it at some point but I have a feeling I may have the same reaction.
Don’t get me wrong, GG was a good book - just frustrating at times!! Lol
Janet wrote: "Don’t get me wrong, GG was a good book - just frustrating at times!! Lol"Duly noted! lol :)
I have read every single book already that has over a million ratings at this time. I'm going to keep an eye on The Handmaid's Tale - it's sure to tip the mark during 2019, as it has over 973,000 ratings right now.
Anabell wrote: "I changed the settings on my "want-to-read" list to show "num ratings" and then sorted from highest to lowest. So I can pick from my TBR list.These are some of the books with over 1 mio. ratings:..."
Oh no... I might have difficulty with this one. I have read all of those.
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I have Pride and Prejudice but knowing my schedule, it would literally taken me all year, plus some, to read it.
I've been wanting to read Lord of the Flies, as I surprisingly never read it in school!
But then I kept scrolling the list, and low-and-behold, The Girl on the Train is on the list and BINGO! That's the one!