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message 1: by Katie (new)

Katie | 2360 comments Some people like to keep their TBR short (and actually read books from it!); others (like me) seem to add every book in existence to their TBR. For today's game, we're going to sort our TBR. (This will be fun for you spreadsheet & data people.)

I'm sure many of you already know how to sort your shelves, but just in case you've never done it before:

Instructions: To sort your TBR, you'll need to go to your to-read shelf. Above your list (next to the search bar) there are some links for Batch Edit, Settings, Stats, and Print. We just want the Settings one so click that. Now you should see a list of columns. Checking the boxes will allow you to see more info about your to-read books.

In order to play along, you're going to need to put a check in the num ratings box, the rating box, the num pages box, and the date pub box. Hit the close button in the lower right-hand corner when you've done that.

Now you can sort and play along! Click on any of the column headers (like num pages or date pub, for example) to sort your list in ascending or descending order for that particular header.


And now, tell us:

How many books are on your to-read shelf?

What is the book with the most ratings?

What is the book with the least ratings ?

What is the highest rated book?

What is the lowest rated book?

What is the longest book?

What is the shortest book?

What is the oldest book (publication date)?



message 2: by Tracy (new)

Tracy (tracyisreading) | 2573 comments Oh Fun!! This should be interesting!!

How many books are on your to-read shelf? 2,169 😳😂

What is the book with the most ratings? The Great Gatsby ( 3,229,505 ratings, there you go , Katie )

What is the book with the least ratings ? The Secret of Dreamland: A Fantasy Adventure ( 1 rating, on my shelf for PopSugar Lit RPG, I figured my daughter could read it too, actually she started it today and was enjoying it )

What is the highest rated book? Fylgia ( 4.75, added for "Sense of Place")

What is the lowest rated book? Girl Land (2.82, I don't know what this is or where it came from LOL )

What is the longest book? Les Misérables ( 1463 pages)

What is the shortest book? Chu's Day by Neil Gaiman (25 pages....I think this is accurate, a lot of books that say "unknown, or I have audio editions marked that have wrong page counts)

What is the oldest book (publication date)? Aesop's Fables


message 3: by Edie (new)

Edie | 1131 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf?
659

What is the book with the most ratings?
The Fault in Our Stars 2,974,396

What is the book with the least ratings ?
A Mile of Freedom a book I loved as a child is apparently out of print - 0 ratings
The Saga of Satisar - 3 ratings

What is the highest rated book?
Becoming Average rating 4.67

What is the lowest rated book?
Bellman & Black Avg rating 3.07 This surprises me in that not too long ago, I went through and thought I deleted most books with ratings below 3.50

What is the longest book?
Les Miserables 1,463 pages

What is the shortest book?
The Prisoner of Heaven 6 pages

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Pillow Book Published 1002


message 4: by Marta (last edited Mar 08, 2019 07:49PM) (new)

Marta (gezemice) | 859 comments I have deleted my TBR about three weeks ago... I felt it was too much pressure! I do have a list of the books, but not on 카지노싸이트 any more, so I cannot sort. Instead, I will take guesses, which is just as fun...

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
It was around 130 books.

What is the book with the most ratings?
Probably Little Women, 1,463,025 ratings

What is the book with the least ratings ?
Insight Meditation: A Step-by-step Course on How to Meditate, 683 ratings

What is the highest rated book?
This one is hard to guess, but books aimed at niche audiences, plus fantasy books, tend to have higher ratings. I found it: Insight Meditation: A Step-by-step Course on How to Meditate - 4.37

What is the lowest rated book?
This is also hard to guess, but because I generally read highly rated books, my lowest ones tend to be classics. I found it: Zuleika Dobson, 3.54

What is the longest book?
The Mists of Avalon, 912 pages

What is the shortest book?
The Witness for the Prosecution: A Short Story, 35 pages

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Iliad, -720


message 5: by Sophie (new)

Sophie (sawphie) | 2826 comments I’m not participating to the read-a-thon, but I can’t resist a good TBR sorting 😛

How many books are on your to-read shelf? 418, I culled it a little bit a the beginning of the year, but my goal is to read a lot and not to add too much to it to finish the year below 400.

What is the book with the most ratings? The Help with 1,848,008

What is the book with the least ratings ? Don't Give Guns to Robots: Choosing Our Future Before It Chooses Us with 1 rating. Being a big fan of Mythbusters, I’ve been waiting for that book for a while, but the publication date keeps getting pushed back! *tapping her feet in frustration*

What is the highest rated book? Assassin's Fate at 4.64! I can’t wait to get back to Fitz’s world, but I need to read the second book of the series first.

What is the lowest rated book? Fight Club 2 at 3.06. Being a graphic novel, I’m definitely going to try it anyway, as soon as I get to the first book though

What is the longest book? The Count of Monte Cristo at 1706 pages, a new addition to my tbr.

What is the shortest book? A Sound of Thunder, a 15 pages novel I’ll be happy to knock off my tbr when I can’t reach my reading goal (I’m 7 book behind schedule bbrr)

What is the oldest book (publication date)? The Sagas of Icelanders, dated 1200


message 6: by Traci (new)

Traci (tracibartz) | 1264 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf? 193

What is the book with the most ratings? World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (383,416 ratings)

What is the book with the least ratings ? The All of It (14 ratings)

What is the highest rated book? Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (4.62 rating)

What is the lowest rated book? Today Will Be Different (3.19 rating)

What is the longest book? 1Q84 (925 pages)

What is the shortest book? Honeymoon in Paris (60 pages)

What is the oldest book (publication date)? Tortilla Flat (1935)

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message 7: by Kristina (new)

Kristina | 245 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf?
850

What is the book with the most ratings?
Divergent 2,555,733 ratings

What is the book with the least ratings ?
Ottawa Stories from the Springs: Anishinaabe dibaadjimowinan wodi gaa binjibaamigak wodi mookodjiwong e zhinikaadek 3 ratings

What is the highest rated book?
Becoming 4.67

What is the lowest rated book?Into the Thickening Fog 2.66

What is the longest book?
It 1,116 pages

What is the shortest book?
The Thanksgiving Visitor 37 pages

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Art of War 500 BC


message 8: by Jackie, Solstitial Mod (new)

Jackie | 2387 comments Mod
Oh I love me a good look through my TBR! What a fun idea!

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
373; I like to keep it well below my number of read books, mostly for my vanity.

What is the book with the most ratings?
A Game of Thrones by a long shot with 1,713,556; the next most has just over half a million

What is the book with the least ratings?
with my own caveat that it has to have already come out, Lady of the Shadows with just 12. I don't know if I'll ever read it since it doesn't seem to be in print, but someone in one of groups kept talking about it so I added it.

What is the highest rated book?
again with the caveat that it has to have already come out, Becoming with a 4.67.

What is the lowest rated book?
Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie with just 2.97. I don't consider that a bad rating though; to me that just means most people think it's an average, enjoyable mystery but nothing special.

What is the longest book?
The History Of Sir Charles Grandison Bart at 1629.

What is the shortest book?
I have a tie at 48 pages: Sea Prayer (which I think is somewhere between a graphic novel and a picture book) and The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843: Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun (which is a poetry book? I think?)

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The History Of Sir Charles Grandison Bart - first published in 1753.


message 9: by Michelle (new)

Michelle (maezyreads) How many books are on your to-read shelf?
4,147 *GASP*
(Probably over 1,000 of those have been read but I got lazy for a couple years and didn't mark any read. I have that on my list of things to do sometime.)

What is the book with the most ratings?
Pride and Prejudice 2,527,036

What is the book with the least ratings ?
Fiery Passion 5

What is the highest rated book?
Clockwork Princess 4.59

What is the lowest rated book?
Petals from the Sky 3.07

What is the longest book?
The Twelfth Card 816 pages

What is the shortest book?
Madeline 44 pages (Did not include novellas.)

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure November 21, 1748


message 10: by Rachel (last edited Mar 08, 2019 09:39PM) (new)

Rachel A. (abyssallibrarian) | 3243 comments I wasn't clear on whether the most ratings/least ratings was supposed to come from the "to-read" shelf, or all shelves so I decided to just use my "to-read" shelf.

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
2720 books!

What is the book with the most ratings?
The Martian, with 655,099 ratings.

What is the book with the least ratings ?
I'm excluding books that have not yet been released for this one, so that makes it A Month of Mondays, with 55 ratings.

What is the highest rated book?
Kingdom of Ash, with an average rating of 4.64 stars.

What is the lowest rated book?
Carnivalesque, with an average of 2.67

What is the longest book?
Les Misérables, with 1463 pages.

What is the shortest book?
The Queen's Army, with 23 pages.

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Odyssey


message 11: by Marina H (new)

Marina H | 1312 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf?
615 ... I need to sort out some of them soon

What is the book with the most ratings?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with 5,804,033 ratings. That's 4 million more ratings than number 2 on my list, that's insane 😲

What is the book with the least ratings ?
There's actually two books with only 2 ratings:
When Dark Clouds Pass
Murder Files from Scotland Yard and the Black Museum

What is the highest rated book?
Becoming with 4,67

What is the lowest rated book?
Working Wonders with 2,99

What is the longest book?
Den sindrige ridder Don Quixote de la Mancha ... 1239 pages

What is the shortest book?
Honeymoon in Paris 60 pages.

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Iliad and The Odyssey


message 12: by Kerry (last edited Mar 09, 2019 05:07AM) (new)

Kerry (euphemy) | 169 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf? 666 (No joke)

What is the book with the most ratings? The Hunger Games with 5,651,841

What is the book with the least ratings ? Recollections Of Lewis Bonnett, Jr. (1778 1850) And The Bonnett And Wetzel Families with 1 rating

What is the highest rated book? Army of God with 4.57

What is the lowest rated book? Fall of House Nemeni at 2.89

What is the longest book? War and Peace at 1,763 pages

What is the shortest book? Deadly Safari at 10 pages

What is the oldest book (publication date)? The Iliad and The Odyssey - both at -720


message 13: by Hilde (new)

Hilde (hilded) | 821 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf?
110. But I also have a wishlist with 183 books.

What is the book with the most ratings?
From my TBR: Slaughterhouse-Five with 1,000,343 ratings. Hope to get to it this year.
From my wishlist: Jane Eyre with 1,417,605 ratings.

What is the book with the least ratings?
From my TBR: Sankt Hans Fest with 20 ratings (old, Norwegian classic, last in a trilogy).
From my wishlist: Olive, Again wih 5 ratings

What is the highest rated book?
From my TBR: Historia om det tapte barnet/(The Story of the Lost Child) with an average rating of 4.39.
From my wishlist: Snøsøsteren/(The Snow Sister) with an average rating of 4.59.

What is the lowest rated book?
From my TBR: Half a Life, avr. rating 3.24
From my wishlist: We Can Be Mended, avr. rating of 2.86. Ugh, I don't even know why this is on there, as I didn't even like the Divergent trilogy. I guess it's my compulsion to finish a series (will most likely never read this book though..)

What is the longest book?
TBR: Kristin Lavransdatter, 1269 pages. I read it once before in my teens, but I want to reread it.
Wishlist: The Cornish Trilogy: The Rebel Angels; What's Bred in the Bone; The Lyre of Orpheus, 1152 pages

What is the shortest book?
TBR: Sankt Hans Fest, 106 p
Wishlist: We Can Be Mended, 29 p. Aj, it came up again, lol!

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
TBR: Mansfield Park, 1814
Wishlist: Jane Eyre, 1847.


message 14: by Emily, Conterminous Mod (last edited Mar 09, 2019 05:48AM) (new)

Emily Bourque (emilyardoin) | 10993 comments Mod
Oh I love this.

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
398! My rule is to keep it below the amount of books that I've read (406).

What is the book with the most ratings?
A Game of Thrones with 1,713,654

What is the book with the least ratings ?
How It Feels to Float with 14... I think I only added it because of a GR giveaway, but it does look interesting!

What is the highest rated book?
Becoming with 4.67 (looks like a lot of us need to read Becoming!)

What is the lowest rated book?
Tangerine with 3.23, which I just added because of the Read-A-Thon! I try not to add any books that are under a 3.5 though.

What is the longest book?
4 3 2 1 at 866 pages -- not bad!

What is the shortest book?
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions at 63 pages

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
I have a couple unknowns, but the oldest one with a date is Sense and Sensibility in 1811!


message 15: by Emily, Conterminous Mod (new)

Emily Bourque (emilyardoin) | 10993 comments Mod
Annnnnnd now to go cull my TBR instead of being otherwise productive. Thanks for the reminder!


message 16: by Carmen (new)

Carmen (TheReadingTrashQueen) (thereadingtrashqueen) | 260 comments I am thinking of using these settings (and others) to cull my TBR, iso of just going through it. It might make it more manageable!

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
1702.. I culled it up until I started the Popsugar Challenge on January 1st 2018. Clearly these challenges are terrible for keeping your TBR small! I need to cull more, but honestly, it takes so long!

What is the book with the most ratings?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, this illustrated edition, the Ravenclaw edition, and the Scottish edition. Of course I have read the book already, so after that comes To Kill a Mockingbird.

What is the book with the least ratings?
Dragonfly (not published yet, no ratings either!) and Burgemeesters in oorlogstijd, which is a book I saw during work and seemed interesting. It's about mayors during World War II in the Netherlands. Also no ratings!

What is the highest rated book?
This feature doesn't seem to work very well, as it's not fully in order when I sort. I am picking the highest book that's actually published, and there are two with the same 4.69 rating!
Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking and Christmas at The Chocolate Pot Café. As you can see my reading is incredibly eclectic haha!

What is the lowest rated book?
Een plus een is drie at 2.57. This is also the book with the lowest amount of ratings (14) after the ones with none at all.

What is the longest book?
Les Misérables at 1463! I've got 11 over 1000 :O

What is the shortest book?
Well, the first one that is not unknown, nor an audiobook is Harry Potter: The Prequel at 800 words/4 pages. Beat that haha! After that, The Lady Astronaut of Mars at 19 pages.

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
Hesiod: The Works and Days/Theogony/The Shield of Herakles at 700 BC!


message 17: by Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod (new)

Laura | 3780 comments Mod
How many books are on your to-read shelf?
259

What is the book with the most ratings?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

What is the book with the least ratings ?
The Institute by Stephen King

What is the highest rated book?
Deleting the one not even published yet,
Becoming by Michelle Obama

What is the lowest rated book?
Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman

What is the longest book?
The Stand by Stephen King

What is the shortest book?
The Rumour by Lesley Kara

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee


message 18: by Sarah (new)

Sarah (sezziy) | 614 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf?
I had a massive cull last month so it was over 2000. I now have it down to 1201.

What is the book with the most ratings?
The Hobbit or There and Back Again

What is the book with the least ratings ?
Apart from a few 0 ratings, I have Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine and The Secret Garden of Zombies with 3 ratings each.

What is the highest rated book?
Words of Radiance

What is the lowest rated book?
Adèle

What is the longest book?
War and Peace

What is the shortest book?
Egyptology

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Iliad


message 19: by Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads) (last edited Mar 09, 2019 09:00AM) (new)

Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads) Because I only use 카지노싸이트 to track books I already own and want to read, these only represent part of my TBR. The rest of it is on an Amazon wishlist so I can easily track price changes.

Also, how do you commit to keeping your TBR shorter than your read list? Do you just not add books you would have added otherwise??? What if you forget about something you would have added, and never read it, and it's a book you would have loved? (Okay, I realize that last one is a bit of a silly question since none of us are ever going to read ALL the books we want to read whether they're on a list or not, but it would bug me to know there are others I would have added to the list if not for the sake of a random number.)

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
263

What is the book with the most ratings?
The Help

What is the book with the least ratings ?
Trying to Conceive Through Faith (2 ratings)

What is the highest rated book?
Also Trying to Conceive Through Faith at 5 stars. (Often books with few ratings have really extreme average ratings, I've noticed.) Next is The Lucky Few: Finding God's Best in the Most Unlikely Places with 4.6.

What is the lowest rated book?
Wren In The Mist at 2.83 (I go by specific reviews more than average rating. It doesn't matter to me if a lot of people loved/hated it, I'm just interested in *why* they loved or hated it.)

What is the longest book?
The Canterbury Tales 918 pages

What is the shortest book?
Franz Joseph Haydn The Story of the Choir Boy who became a Great Composer 7 pages (Is this right? I could knock this off my TBR in like 5 minutes!)

Edit: How did I miss the oldest book question the first time? The Odyssey 720 BC


message 20: by Emily, Conterminous Mod (new)

Emily Bourque (emilyardoin) | 10993 comments Mod
When I notice that my TBR is higher than my Read shelf, I usually go through my TBR and get rid of books that no longer interest me or that I added just for a GR giveaway or that has lower ratings than I would usually read. I know I'll never read all the books on my list (and, TBH I usually don't check my list before choosing books - I usually use it as a reminder that I wanted to read a book when I see it pop up on other people's things), so I don't mind deleting off of my TBR if it becomes unruly.


message 21: by Amanda (new)

Amanda | 10 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf?
1,754!!

What is the book with the most ratings?
To Kill a Mockingbird (3,853,900 ratings)

What is the book with the least ratings?
An Appointed Time (1 rating)

What is the highest rated book?
Chosen (5 stars)

What is the lowest rated book?
Love Is a Many Splendid Thing (3 stars)

What is the longest book?
War and Peace (1,392 pages

What is the shortest book?
The Lottery (30 pages)

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Iliad (762BC)


message 22: by Tracy (new)

Tracy (tracyisreading) | 2573 comments Emily wrote: "When I notice that my TBR is higher than my Read shelf, I usually go through my TBR and get rid of books that no longer interest me or that I added just for a GR giveaway or that has lower ratings ..."

This is going to be a HUGE project for me!! I'm going to go through my massive list using the published date, I'll probably leave the newer books on and get rid of about 1000 books that have been on my list for years that I've forgotten about.


Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads) Emily wrote: "When I notice that my TBR is higher than my Read shelf, I usually go through my TBR and get rid of books that no longer interest me or that I added just for a GR giveaway or that has lower ratings ..."

Okay, that does make sense to me. I've been trying to decide whether to go through my (non-owned) TBR and delete books that no longer look interesting. Personally, I'm torn on whether it's worth leaving on there just because it looked interesting at one time, because maybe it will again in a different mood, but I also know I went through a stretch of adding other people's recommendations and books that I 'should' read that I'll probably never get to.


message 24: by Ann (new)

Ann S | 624 comments I was going to play, but then discovered I have only 37 books on that shelf. After seeing other posts, I feel negligent in adding to it. So I will try harder this year to get up to Tracy's 2,169. Heaven help me.


message 25: by Hannah (new)

Hannah | 384 comments For this, I only using books that I would be able to read, so I'm not including books that have yet to be published, or are now out of print.

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
600, so just under the number of books I've read.

What is the book with the most ratings?
The Lovely Bones - This is on my list to read this year for one of my challenges.

What is the book with the least ratings ?
A Trick Of The Light - I have no idea what this is about, but I've read a few other books by this author and really enjoyed them, so I added all his works to my TBR.

What is the highest rated book?
March: Book Three

What is the lowest rated book?
Ich fuehl mich so fifty-fifty - On my list to read for a challenge this year.

What is the longest book?
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

What is the shortest book?
Right at Last

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady - This is also at the top of my TBR when sorted by length. Maybe it's a sign I need to read it this year.


message 26: by Kathryn (new)

Kathryn | 259 comments It took me a few years doing the ATY challenge, and a huge cleaning project, but my Read books eventually got higher than my TBR list. =)

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
365

What is the book with the most ratings?
Water for Elephants (1,230,964)

What is the book with the least ratings ?
X and the City: Modeling Aspects of Urban Life (only has 14 ratings, but I won it at a math conference a few years ago... still haven't read it)

What is the highest rated book?
Meadow's Keep (rated 4.75, although it only has 24 ratings!). The next best (which has a lot more ratings) is The Heart's Invisible Furies (average 4.47)

What is the lowest rated book?
X and the City: Modeling Aspects of Urban Life (in addition to having the fewest ratings, is also the lowest rated at 3.00!)

What is the longest book?
Anna Karenina (964 pages)

What is the shortest book?
On Top of the World: How the Finns Educate Their Children (29 pages)

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
Candide (1759)


message 27: by Kathy (last edited Mar 09, 2019 08:59AM) (new)

Kathy E | 3262 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf?
706. I deleted a lot of books on my TBR last year when I realized my reading tastes had changed.

What is the book with the most ratings?
The Help by Kathryn Stockett has 1,848,163! I hope to get to this book in 2019.

What is the book with the least ratings?
Fairytales by Catherine Habbie has 2 ratings. The author is in a different 카지노싸이트 group that I'm in so I want to read her book.

What is the highest rated book?
Not including those with very few ratings, Grant by Ron Chernow at 4.56. I added this book because I've been enjoying listening to Alexander Hamilton by the same author on audiobook.

What is the lowest rated book?
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck, rated 3.05. This book won the National Book Award in 2004.

What is the longest book?
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors by Juliet Barker at 1,158 pages. Wonder if I'll ever read it...

What is the shortest book?
40 pages for Fairytales followed by Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney at 46 pages.

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
-411 for Lysistrata by Aristophanes


message 28: by Tracy (last edited Mar 09, 2019 09:44AM) (new)

Tracy (tracyisreading) | 2573 comments Ann wrote: "I was going to play, but then discovered I have only 37 books on that shelf. After seeing other posts, I feel negligent in adding to it. So I will try harder this year to get up to Tracy's 2,169. ..."

Hahaha.....dont do it. I'm simultaneously trying to delete books and fix editions that aren't correct ( I realized some have unknown page counts, or I accidentally added audio, so it will throw off my stats) ....Its going to be a long term project for those nights that I have insomnia. I think I'll just axe whatever I already own, since I won't be forgetting about those, and any books past #1 in a series I haven't started yet. I'm getting agitated already though LOL. I think I'm down to 2,000 something, but I have books on there that I marked for the girls, a cookbook (did it look that good??? I don't know). So many that I don't remember what they even are. I'm feeling compelled to look at the reviews and see who I got the idea from. Thanks all you crazy readers for giving books glowing recommendations . I'm also seduced by pretty covers in my news feed.😫


message 29: by Samantha (new)

Samantha | 1517 comments Oh this is fun! I am only going to use books that have been published.

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
260

What is the book with the most ratings?
The Old Man and the Sea

What is the book with the least ratings ?
This is Where I Won't Be Alone

What is the highest rated book?
The Hate U Give

What is the lowest rated book?
Beautiful Broken Girls

What is the longest book?
11/22/63

What is the shortest book?
Freaks

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Sound and the Fury


message 30: by Pam (new)

Pam (bluegrasspam) | 3775 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf?
2643

What is the book with the most ratings?
Pride and Prejudice 2,527,272 ratings

What is the book with the least ratings ?
I have 7 zeroes but 5 haven’t been published yet. Of the other 2,
Last Translations. Three Stories is a book I own (pub. in 1979) which I had a GR librarian add. Still haven't read it!

What is the highest rated book?
I had a bunch of 5s with less than 10 ratings. Excluding the under 10s, the highest rating is 4.93 for Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michaelangelo Buonarroti
by Linda Cardillo

What is the lowest rated book?
Excluding books with a zero rating and less than 10 ratings, my lowest rated book is Billy Moon by Lain Douglas, 2.73

What is the longest book?
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, 1774 pages

What is the shortest book?
The first one that wasn’t a picture book, short story, or audiobook: The Law by Frédéric Bastiat, 61 pages

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Life of Alexander the Great by Plutarch published in 100


message 31: by Jill (new)

Jill | 725 comments What fun!

How many books on your to-Read shelf?
424- I have been trying to be more intentional looking to my TBR first for reading challenges and trying to stop adding every book I hear about to the,list. Sigh, it is so hard. 😞

What is the book with the most ratings?
The Catcher in the Rye with 2,395,181. I am continually amazed I have not read this book yet!

What is the book with the least ratings?
Shipbreaking. ApparentlyRich and Pretty this is a book of poetry, I have no idea why I added it to my list!

What is the highest rated book?
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria with a 4.62 rating.

What is the lowest rated book?
Rich and Pretty with a 2.76 rating.

What is the longest book?
A Suitable Boy with 1,474 pages.

What is the shortest book?
The House on Mango Street with 110 pages.

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
Emma, 1815


message 32: by Sophie (new)

Sophie (sawphie) | 2826 comments Raquel wrote: "Also, how do you commit to keeping your TBR shorter than your read list? Do you just not add books you would have added otherwise??? What if you forget about something you would have added, and never read it, and it's a book you would have loved?"

Personnally I try to be much more critical of a book before adding it to my tbr, like “am I realistically going to read this book”, “does this book align with my goals of reading more diversely?”. I’ll never not put a book on my tbr because of the size of the list, but I try to be more mindful 😉


message 33: by Joanne (new)

Joanne | 477 comments Here's mine:

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
1016

What is the book with the most ratings?
Paper Towns by John Green Paper Towns - 762,142 ratings

What is the book with the least ratings ?
God Smites and Other Muslim Girl Problems by Ishara Deen God Smites and Other Muslim Girl Problems - 56 ratings

What is the highest rated book?
Becoming by Michelle Obama Becoming - 4.67 average rating

What is the lowest rated book?
Our Little Racket by Angelica Baker Our Little Racket - 3.06 average rating

What is the longest book?
The Stand by Stephen King The Stand - 1153 pages

What is the shortest book?
Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini Sea Prayer - 48 pages

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey - 1818


message 34: by Karolina (last edited Mar 10, 2019 03:57AM) (new)

Karolina (ukarolinau) How many books are on your to-read shelf?
756 *sigh*
What is the book with the most ratings?
The Hunger Games 5,652,782 ratings
What is the book with the least ratings ?
Waves: A Very Short Introduction 1 rating
What is the highest rated book?
Kingdom of Ash 4,64
What is the lowest rated book?
Hercolubus Or Red Planet 2,62
What is the longest book?
The Count of Monte Cristo 1276 pages
What is the shortest book?
Stuck 32 pages
What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Odyssey -720


message 35: by Silvia (new)

Silvia Turcios | 1058 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf? 132

What is the book with the most ratings? 1984 2,528,565

What is the book with the least ratings ? One Word Kill 23 ratings

What is the highest rated book? One Word Kill 4.70, but maybe because it has so few ratings, With many ratings, the highest rated book is A Court of Mist and Fury 4.68

What is the lowest rated book? Chasing the Stars 3.46

What is the longest book? The Wise Man's Fear 994 pp

What is the shortest book? Nightlights 60 pp, it's a picture book :)

What is the oldest book (publication date)? Emily of New Moon 1923


message 36: by Jody (new)

Jody (jodybell) | 3477 comments I have three separate TBRs ... in total there are 2,316 books on there. But I'll use my main official 카지노싸이트 to-read shelf for this!

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
156. Aren't I restrained? (Ignore those other two TBR shelves showing my true self.)

What is the book with the most ratings?
The Help, with 1,848,453. I really need to get to that.

What is the book with the least ratings ?
Apart from the second Trevor Noah book which hasn't been released yet, it's Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape. I have absolutely no idea how that got onto my priority TBR. What the hell?

What is the highest rated book?
Lonesome Dove with 4.48. Really need to get to that one too!

What is the lowest rated book?
Tampa with 3.36.

What is the longest book?
Holy Bible: King James Version with 1,590 pages.

What is the shortest book?
We Should All Be Feminists with 52 pages.

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Iliad - 720BC.


message 37: by Joan (last edited Mar 10, 2019 11:15AM) (new)

Joan Barnett | 1972 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf? 451

What is the book with the most ratings? The Help

What is the book with the least ratings ? This Is Home: A Novel

What is the highest rated book? District 23

What is the lowest rated book? We Can Be Mended

Highest and lowest are both Veronica Roth novellas - that's funny

What is the longest book? Atlas Shrugged - 1,168

What is the shortest book? District 23 is unknown so I'll go with The Egg - 3 pages

What is the oldest book (publication date)? Odyssey


message 38: by Johanne (new)

Johanne *the biblionaut* | 1668 comments This should be fun!

How many books are on your to-read shelf?
441 (I try to only add books I really want to read, 1st in series and books I don´t own, because those I have on my shelves I am not likely to forget).

What is the book with the most ratings?
To Kill a Mockingbird with 3,854,979 ratings

What is the book with the least ratings ?
I actually have 3 books, that are published, with only 1 rating:
Frede og Selma og et ret højt træ
Den store zombie bog
Ægget fra fortiden

What is the highest rated book?
Not counting the one with 1 5-star rating it´s Jeg er Albert Storm with 4.76

What is the lowest rated book?
I love you, Danmark with 2.71

What is the longest book?
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition with 1,008 pages (this is a collection so...)

What is the shortest book?
The Lady Astronaut of Mars with 19 pages

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
Dantes guddommelige komedie (The Divine Comedy) (1308)

Well, this was fun. But I discovered a lot of unknown publication dates and page numbers!!! And I have other things I should do so I can´t fix it right now! Oh, the agony.


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Veronica (ronireads13) | 816 comments How many books are on your to-read shelf?
606

What is the book with the most ratings?
Divergent. It has 2,556,558 ratings.

What is the book with the least ratings ?
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
This has 14 ratings. A couple others have less but they are not published yet so I'm not including those.

What is the highest rated book?
Becoming it has a 4.67 rating

What is the lowest rated book?
Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe it has a 2.67 yikes!

What is the longest book?
Les Misérables it has 1,463 pages

What is the shortest book?
Pros and Cons it has 28 pages and is a short story i think

What is the oldest book (publication date)?
The Odyssey it is 720 b.c.


message 40: by Katie (new)

Katie | 2360 comments All you guys with Becoming as your highest ranked book, it really is so good. I can't wait for you guys all to read it.

And Jody, I was literally laughing out loud at the cat ninja situation.


message 41: by Jody (new)

Jody (jodybell) | 3477 comments Hahahaha - it is kind of fitting, I guess! 😂


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