The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

15.1 More or Less?
The most visited park is Great Smoky Mountains National Park, attracting over 12 million visitors in 2024.
The least visited park is Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska with 11,000 visitors in 2024.

For this task organize your TBR by number of ratings.
Book 1: Read the book with the most ratings on your TBR
and
Book 2: Read the book with the least ratings on your TBR (if the book with the lowest ratings is not yet published or next in a series you are not caught up with, you may skip that book)

If you don't have a Goodreads list, any list works, but you still need to use the ratings.

Required State the ratings of each book

Just checking this is the number of people who have rated the book

Marie (UK) wrote: "Just checking this is the number of people who have rated the book"

that is correct. I am going to go in and change the wording.

JennRenee wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "Just checking this is the number of people who have rated the book"

that is correct. I am going to go in and change the wording."

thank you

If the book with the least ratings is a book that hasnt been released or is number 2 in a series you havent started can you choose the next with the least??

Masoodah wrote: "If the book with the least ratings is a book that hasnt been released or is number 2 in a series you havent started can you choose the next with the least??"

yes that is correct.

Is there a quick way to figure this out, or do I need to go to each of my 800 TBR books one at a time and look at their # ratings?

Heather(Gibby) wrote: "Is there a quick way to figure this out, or do I need to go to each of my 800 TBR books one at a time and look at their # ratings?"

If you have your books in GR, one of the options for sorting is # of Ratings (along with average rating, date published, date added, and others.) You can click settings and add that. Then you can sort by # of Ratings. I think you can see it here
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
I will read Ella Moon, which has 1 rating.

You can then click on the column to reverse it. It turns out my book with the most ratings is a children's book that doesn't qualify so I'll have to go to the next one.

Yea, my fewest ratings are my grandson's book, which I have slated to read each season since it was published. Looks like this might be the one.

Robin P wrote: "Heather(Gibby) wrote: "Is there a quick way to figure this out, or do I need to go to each of my 800 TBR books one at a time and look at their # ratings?"

If you have your books in GR, one of the ..."

This is what I did with my list. I had to turn the setting on since I don't usually have it display, but I didn't want to look up each book either, so I am glad for that setting.

You can remove that setting later if you don't want it cluttering up your list.

Does this have to be our full Goodreads TBR or can it be a specialized list we have built on Goodreads? My full list has a lot of really obscure books with 0 ratings that I don't think I will be able to find. If it does have to be the full list should I just keep looking until I find one I can get a hold of?

Karen Michele wrote: "Does this have to be our full Goodreads TBR or can it be a specialized list we have built on Goodreads? My full list has a lot of really obscure books with 0 ratings that I don't think I will be ab..."

Whichever TBR you're currently using, you can use your whole goodreads TBR, a special monthly or yearly TBR. I used my 2025 TBR

When the challenge began, the book with fewest reviews on my TBR was Atmosphere- which makes sense - it wasn't officially released yet! (released on June 3rd)

That is not the case anymore though - can I still use for this task? Or I need to regroup?

Krista wrote: "When the challenge began, the book with fewest reviews on my TBR was Atmosphere- which makes sense - it wasn't officially released yet! (released on June 3rd)

That is not the case..."

yes, reference the ratings when it was the lowest.

ratings always change. so as long as when you first looked it was your lowest its fine.

I just wanted to say thank you for this task, which got me to read 2 books I would have put off forever, both of which I enjoyed!

I don't use Goodreads to track my tbr. Could you clarify what this means:

If you don't have a Goodreads list, any list works, but you still need to use the ratings.

August wrote: "I don't use Goodreads to track my tbr. Could you clarify what this means:

If you don't have a Goodreads list, any list works, but you still need to use the ratings."

If your list is in Goodreads, there is a setting you can use that displays the ratings for the books on the list. Then you can sort the list by the number of ratings to easily see which has the most and the least.

If your list is not on Goodreads, you will need to look up each book and check the number of ratings to figure out which has the most and the least.

The comment is just to make sure players know that the TBR list doesn't have to be one that is sortable in Goodreads.
Any TBR list will work, it will just take a little more effort than if it was in Goodreads.