What determines the order books are shown on author profile?

[J_BlueFlower]

What determines the order books are shown on author profile?

Usually it seems like the most rated is the top book, but sometimes there are exceptions.

For instance Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

book 1 is The Brothers Karamazov 212,225 ratings
book 2 is The Idiot 112,012 ratings
and only as book 4 Crime and Punishment - his most rated book with 543,602 ratings

[Darren]

I also have wondered about this JBF
because of such discrepancies I never look at the books on the profile page, I always just immediately click through on the "More books by..." link which then shows the books listed strictly by popularity (plus you get a dropdown for other sort orders)
e.g. https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

[Sandra]

This question is about site functionality. Librarians only deal with book & author records.

If you want to find out the answer you'll need to ask in Help.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Books are sorted by the number of shelvings, not ratings, on author profiles. But as stated above, this is not an issue Goodreads Librarians can assist with.

Closing thread.