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message 1: by SRC Moderator, Moderator (last edited Dec 02, 2018 12:22PM) (new)

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20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Diane Whitney's Task: Membership Required

This is a ONE book task.
No books with the main page genre childrens or kids can be used for this task.
Your book must be at least 300 pages in length.

Option 1 - Read a book first published in the same Month AND Year you joined GoodReads. This date is located on your profile page.

OR

Option 2 - Read a book first published in the same Month AND Year you joined the Seasonal Reading Challenge Group. To find this date, click on the members link located on the right side of the SRC page and enter your GoodRead's name into the search bar.

REQUIRED - State the option you choose and include the date in your post.


message 2: by SRC Moderator, Moderator (new)

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message 3: by Coralie (new)

Coralie Does anyone have any suggestions for books first published in November 2009 or suggestions as to how I can find some?


message 4: by KSMary (new)

KSMary | 1181 comments You can search the lists. I also joined November 2009. https://www.goodreads.com/list/best_o...


message 5: by Emily (new)

Emily | 782 comments I have a question regarding a January start. Some books list the first published date as January 1 when they don't have an exact start date. Do I need to do more research to figure out the actual pub date or do I go by this date?

I understand if you want us going by the Hardcover date or something, but I just want to clarify what I should be looking for.


message 6: by Coralie (new)

Coralie KSMary wrote: "You can search the lists. I also joined November 2009. https://www.goodreads.com/list/best_o..."

Not a great choice really.


message 7: by Emily (new)

Emily | 782 comments Coralie wrote: "KSMary wrote: "You can search the lists. I also joined November 2009. https://www.goodreads.com/list/best_o..."

Not a great choice really."


I didn't find the lists to be super helpful - not all of the titles on the list were correct.

I organized my To Read list by pub date and skipped ahead to the year I was looking for. This obviously only works if you have a decently large To Read list, but I found it to be the easiest way for me.


message 8: by Dee (last edited Dec 02, 2018 07:30PM) (new)

Dee (austhokie) | 8973 comments That’s what I did as well kate

If ppl want to troll through my shelves for books - I have over 10000 books shelved


message 9: by Coralie (new)

Coralie I did that but none of my 500+ books were published that month. I might check what other people have on their shelves.


steph (librarianish) (steph_davidson) | 540 comments November is hard. Every time I've found a book published in the right month and year, it's not the first published date. Or else it doesn't have 350+ pages. I tried searching Books in Print, but it's not any more helpful than the GR lists are. November 2012 / November 2017 are my dates, in case anyone runs across something that fits!


message 11: by Sandy, Moderator Emeritus (new)

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Stephanie (Librarianish) wrote: "November is hard. Every time I've found a book published in the right month and year, it's not the first published date. Or else it doesn't have 350+ pages. I tried searching Books in Print, but it..."

this list popular books from November 2017might help.
You'll need to check - some of those books were not first published then - but some certainly were.


message 12: by Meg (last edited Dec 04, 2018 01:05AM) (new)

Meg (megscl) | 2473 comments There's a sneaky way of getting a list of popular books by month for pre 2017.
Just use this link (with the space removed) and change the month and year...

e.g.
https://www.goodreads.com/ book/popular_by_date/2012/December/

https://www.goodreads.com/ book/popular_by_date/2014/September/


message 13: by Sandy, Moderator Emeritus (new)

Sandy | 16893 comments Mod
I have about 4500 books on my list - https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...... - and anyone is welcome to look through that one. Probably a fairly different list than Dee's.


message 14: by Nicola (new)

Nicola | 1360 comments Meg wrote: "There's a sneaky way of getting a list of popular books by month for pre 2017.
Just use this link (with the space removed) and change the month and year...

e.g.
https://www.goodreads.com/ book/po..."


Neat trick!


steph (librarianish) (steph_davidson) | 540 comments Sandy wrote: "Stephanie (Librarianish) wrote: "November is hard. Every time I've found a book published in the right month and year, it's not the first published date. Or else it doesn't have 350+ pages. I tried..."

Thank you! And I'm glad the 350 was my transcription error. That'll help, in addition to the links to people's to-be-read shelves. It's a shame GR doesn't let you sort listology lists by selected features.


message 16: by Sandy, Moderator Emeritus (new)

Sandy | 16893 comments Mod
Stephanie (Librarianish) wrote: "That'll help, in addition to the links to people's to-be-read shelves ..."

don't limit yourself to TBR lists - you'll most likely have a much wider selection if you look at "All Books."


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