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11 -- A Book With Less Than 2022 Goodreads Ratings
Some recommendations:Midnight at Malabar House;
The Dying Day;
In Love with George Eliot;
Escaping Dreamland;
The Secrets of Winter;
Stanley and Elsie
The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance. By Anders Rydell.
A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson
Fascinating prompt... at only 561 GR ratings, GRAVEL HEART qualifies. Written by Abdulrazak Gurnah, this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
I am reading "Twenty Years Later" by Charlie Donlea (published 12/28/2021).
I love a good ‘noir’ novel and Tom Turner doesn’t disappoint. My choice for this prompt is Charleston Noir.
Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly. A romance book between a queer woman and a pansexual non-binary character set against the backdrop of a reality cooking TV show. As of this posting, it has 423 ratings.
Folk Medicine by Tarl Warwick
The Darkest WinterI am currently reading The Darkest Winter by Lindsey Pogue. It is highly rated, but has less than 700 ratings so far.
I just read missing daughter by Kristin modglin . When I read it there were about 900 but it’s now in the thousands.it might be more than 2022 by the end of the year.
I read "What's Your Enneatype? An Essential Guide to the Enneagram: Understanding the Nine Personality Types for Personal Growth and Strengthened Relationships" by Liz Carver & Josh Green.
Chouette by Claire Oshtesky -In the 500s of ratings at the time of writing this. It’s an odd one, that’s for sure. Pretty short read as well.
Just finished The Perishing by Natasha Deon (1,799 GR reviews).
I read The Shift: 7 Powerful Mindset Changes for Lasting Weight Loss. There are only 199 ratings, but I gave it 5 stars.
“Love & Other Disasters” currently has less than 2022 goodreads reviews. To be published this month. It was about a reality tv food contest, where 2 contestants meet and fall in love.
My list could go on and on but I have found that many of my 'free' books I have gotten on Kindle are low Goodreads ratings..... so if you have a kindle and have accumulated free books check those out ;) I have a plethora to choose from. I am now reading If Only I Could Talk: A Canine Adventure 476 ratings
The Spanish Daughter Such a great story about a really great human, who learns of an inheritance and makes the most of less-than-ideal circumstances. I love the way Puri shows up in her life, no matter what circumstances she is facing!
You May Now Kill the Bride by R.L. Stine. Two sisters, divided by time. Each with a terrible resentment she can barely contain. Two Fear family weddings, decades apart. Each bride will find that the ancient curse that haunts the Fears lives on. It feeds off the evil that courses through their blood and it takes its toll in unexpected ways.
The Forever Dream is an older book by Iris Johansen. I received it in a box of books I bought. It’s a decent romance novel.
Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, edited by Joel Allegretti had only 9 ratings when I posted my review. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2022...
I picked up Psych Major Syndrome by Alicia Thompson from one of those tiny library book exchanges on campus ages ago. (Yes, I was a psych major.) It's still sitting in my room unread so here's an excuse!
Anthem by Noah Hawley was just published in January, and has only a little over 900 ratings at the moment. I'm sure that will go up quickly. It's quite a novel, a dystopian saga set in America in the very near future.
I read Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon. The first in a series and I will definitely be reading the next one.
a river enchanted by Rebecca Ross. not more than 2022 ratings. it's new!
This is going to be so hard! The New Releases I was waiting for came out in Jan and Feb and already have more than 2022 ratings... This one is difficult for me if I want to keep reading in order. Let's see what is going to happen next week LOL!
I read Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World? This was the only catagory it fit into. 3 stars. Not good, not bad.
Linda Holeman, The Saffron Gate, 2009. (937 rating when read). It's an historical romance which would also fill (for starters) prompts # 12 - Set on at least two continents; #29 - Over 500 pages; and #33 - A bilingual character.
I noticed that Pippa Goldschmidt's The Falling Sky has under 400 ratings. I've owned it for eight years so finally got around to reading it!
FOUND IT!I am reading Stuck with You by Ali Hazelwood that at the moment has 1412 ratings because the novella itself will come out later this year but the Audible version is out already!
YAY! This was the most difficult prompt for me if I wanted to proceed in order!
I have listened to the audiobook of The Chocolate Box - a Hercule Poirot Short Story by Agatha Christie which now has 1412 ratings.
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This prompt is for a book that has less than two-thousand-and-twenty-two ratings on Goodreads. Use the search bar to find a book that sounds interesting. Then check how many ratings it has. (You can find this below the title, beside the star rating. Note that ratings are different than reviews.) Any Goodreads List will also show the number of ratings in fine print beneath the title.
Typically books with less than 2022 ratings will be ones that may be new releases or have been independently published. It might be a book local to your area or a lesser known read. The number of ratings will change all the time as more members review the book. For this category, it just has to have less than 2,022 ratings at the time you begin reading it.
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