Your “least shelved” book of the year

[Amethyst]

If you do Goodreads, there is a page called Your Year in Books. If you scroll down a bit, it will tell you your most and least shelved books. I’m not really interested in most shelved cuz I’m sure they’re very popular and I’ve heard of them. But what is your least shelved? And if you would share also what your rating of it was. 
 

I’ll go first….

American Estrangement by Said Sayrafiezadeh. I didn’t rate it. It’s a collection of short stories, so some were good, some great, some meh. Hence no rating. 
 

Anyone interested in sharing?

[Kidlit]

I'll play!

My least shelved was Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill, a re-read-aloud my youngest and I enjoyed together.   It's a vintage extended picture book (which I can't recall currently whether is divided into proper chapters or not) by the same author who wrote the I -Can-Read classic The Fire Cat. 
 

What a great idea for a thread!

[Vintage81]

Mine was The Celts and All That! by Alan Burnett. It was a book DD and I read as part of our world history study. It was fairly informative and entertaining. 😊 I gave it 4 stars.

ETA…17 people shelved it.

Edited December 22, 2022 by Vintage81

[Junie]

Mine was the French New Testament -- which probably doesn't help you at all. :)

[Kassia]

What a great thread.  

Mine was: Running in Silence: My Drive for Perfection and the Eating Disorder That Fed It.  I gave it five stars because at times it felt like the author had read my thoughts throughout my life with disordered eating and exercise.  

[Vasha]

God’s Messenger: The Astounding Achievements of Mother Cabrini: A Novel Based on the Life of Mother Frances X. Cabrini

My 5 star rating reflected my affinity for the person not the writing.

[Amethyst]

42 minutes ago, Kidlit said:

My least shelved was Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill, a re-read-aloud my youngest and I enjoyed together.   

Oh, I remember that one! My dd loved that book! It had a bright yellow cover, if I recall. 

[Kidlit]

4 minutes ago, Amethyst said:

Oh, I remember that one! My dd loved that book! It had a bright yellow cover, if I recall. 

The copy we have does indeed!  It's from the lovely New York Review Children's Collection.  
Jenny Linsky is delightful!

[melbotoast]

Great thread! Mine was Fearless Love by Kat Bellemore, shelved by 17 other people. It is part of the Sweet and Swoony Romance group giveaway. You can find them on Facebook and get links to download almost 100 free romance stories. Most seem to be novella length. It's a mixed bag, with some authors that I know and love and some that I haven't bothered to shelve. This one was decent enough to admit that I read it 😁

Edited December 22, 2022 by melbotoast

[Robin M]

Mine's M.L. Buchman's Raider shelved by 298 people and it's part of the Miranda Chase series about an NTSB crash investigator who is an autistic air crash genius .  4 star read.

[PaulainTx]

Mine was Dish of Orts by George MacDonald.  I gave it 4 stars and it was shelved by 306 other people.

[LaughingCat]

Mine was A Wolf in Holy Places by Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- it is a short story.  I gave it 3 stars and it was shelved by 33 other people. 

Edited December 22, 2022 by LaughingCat
changed 'in' to 'by'

[Brittany1116]

The Hysterectomy Waltz by Merrill Joan Gerber

46 shelved it, 16 rated it. 3.25 star rating. I give it a 2.5 and rounded up to 3.

I picked it up because it was literally the only book at my library with "hysterectomy" in the title when I was awaiting mine. 

[Rachel]

Mine was “AT Last” by Brenda & Charlie Quesenberey, shelved by one other person. My rating was a 2, I think it was self-published and badly in need of an editor. I didn’t finish it. 
 

I really hate rating books poorly but sometimes it’s required. 

[Rachel]

11 hours ago, Rachel said:

Double post

Edited December 22, 2022 by Rachel

[Lady Florida.]

Central Florida Butterflies and Their Host Plants

Shelved 31 times.

[vonfirmath]

what does it mean to shelve a book? To indicate you read it?

 

[Guest]

7 hours ago, vonfirmath said:

what does it mean to shelve a book? To indicate you read it?

 

On GoodReads, “shelving” a book means users put the book on their digital bookshelf. So when they do an annual summary of the books you read this year, they tell you your most and least shelved, to indicate how many or few other users picked that book to read or want to read. My most shelved book, for example, is a Harry Potter book, because some four million users put such a popular book on their shelves; my least shelved book this year is called “The Power of Conflict” with some 230-ish users shelving it. 
 

You may not necessarily have read or finished a shelved book; it’s tracking that you put it there with the intention of reading it. 

[PeacefulChaos]

They Say, I Say  by Gerald Graff, which I read over the summer after I bought it for DS17 to read this year for school and got curious. It’s  about writing a persuasive essay with examples. I enjoyed the examples.
 

eta: forgot to say - shelved by 2 other people.
😁

Edited December 22, 2022 by PeacefulChaos

[Granny_Weatherwax]

The Art of Coaching High School Tennis by Bill Patton (68 people)

[Amethyst]

8 hours ago, Brittany1116 said:

 

I picked it up because it was literally the only book at my library with "hysterectomy" in the title when I was awaiting mine. 

I’ve never needed to look, thank goodness, but with all the people I know who have had hysterectomies, I would assume the libraries would have tons of books on this subject!

Edited December 22, 2022 by Amethyst

[Rachel]

I never have used this feature before, it was fun to discover! I read 10 more books this year, but 3,000 fewer pages. I’m assuming because many of my books this year were shorter books I read with my 10 year old. 

[QueenCat]

My least shelved is "Cold Evidence" by Robin James.

My most shelved is "The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett.

[1234]

Mine was Darkness on the Delta by G.E. Johnson. Only shelved by 11 other people.

Author was my favorite teacher ever (middle school English) and someone I’ve always thought highly of (so, I of course gave it five stars as well 😁).

[MariaLucas]

Market Mind Games: Profiting from the New Psychology of Risk, Uncertainty, and the Convergence of Trading with Investing
I don't think reading a single page of that book. And I believe that I wanted to read this and a few other shelved books for my dissertation, but after all, I managed to write that part without them. I used other materials and research, and also the help of https://edubirdie.com/dissertation-writing-services, which was beneficial for me. I was stuck with writing one paper part, and I needed urgent help, and there was no time to sit and read tons of info, so I preferred using help. But maybe, later, I'll still find time to read those books; who knows

Edited February 9, 2023 by MariaLucas

[happi duck]

My most shelved was The Maid 763,927!

My least only had 87.  (Topic of the book gives away personal info)

My highest rated was Braiding Sweetgrass 4.56 average

[Hilltopmom]

3 hours ago, Joker2 said:

Mine was Darkness on the Delta by G.E. Johnson. Only shelved by 11 other people.

Author was my favorite teacher ever (middle school English) and someone I’ve always thought highly of (so, I of course gave it five stars as well 😁).

Oh, one of my high school English teachers wrote a few books too that my grown kids read as late teens.
He introduced me to Pillars of the Earth for which I’m still grateful. (Disclaimer- American school overseas, limited English language library options. Maybe a teacher wouldn’t loan that book to a student these days)

[lovinmyboys]

My least shelved is by the authors of The Self Driven Child (which I really loved). This one is called What Do You Say How to Talk With Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home. I thought it was a great parenting book and was pretty surprised how little it was shelved.

[kirstenhill]

My least shelved was a book we read for school... "Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression".  Only 4 people shelved it! 

I don't shelve every single school book I read aloud for school, but I do most of the ones that aren't textbooks. After reading in A History of US vol. 9 about the great depression, DS11 specifically asked to learn more about its causes, and this was a book I found at the library that I thought would be at an understandable level. 

Edited December 22, 2022 by kirstenhill
Typo

[Amethyst]

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Edited October 17, 2023 by Amethyst

[Rosie_0801]

Resurrected by a bot, but it's a different year now so you might all want to talk about it again?

 

[EmilyGF]

12 hours ago, Rosie_0801 said:

Resurrected by a bot, but it's a different year now so you might all want to talk about it again?

 

I really enjoyed seeing these titles and have looked them up! 

[Lady Florida.]

13 hours ago, Rosie_0801 said:

Resurrected by a bot, but it's a different year now so you might all want to talk about it again?

 

It looks like we have to wait. Goodreads isn't showing the stats for 2023 year in books yet. If it is I can't find it. I didn't realize this was a zombie thread at first and went to GR to find mine for this year. I can only find 2022. Then I noticed I actually responded in this thread. I think we'll be able to get this year's stats in December.

Edited October 17, 2023 by Lady Florida.