If you decide later you don't want your choices posted, it's easy to remove a whole set of votes with one click of your button. I find these lists to be a strangely relaxing form of recreation, which is how I come to be typing this at 12:33 AM. If you get excited about the chance to promote a book or two that you aren't seeing publicized, invite friends to vote. If you don't see books you like, go ahead and add the ones you think deserve to be here. By the end of the year, the list will be a lot meatier and more interesting. Were it not for Listopias (though not this one), I would probably never have read The Glass Castle.Ī list in progress the way this one is proves especially interesting, because as more excellent books are published, I revisit my votes, demoting some titles on my current list in order to bump up my new favorites to the places I believe they rightfully deserve. I have read more than one book based on its tendency to linger at the top of a lot of these lists. People vote for the titles they like in their order of preference, so your very favorite book of 2017 (so far) gains 100 points in the total votes second choice 99, and so on down to 1 lonely point if you use all 100 votes.

(Don't even ask it's a sore spot for many of us!) We can also have the system check for duplicates on some, but not all of the lists. There are strict rules, however, and anyone that thinks to remove a title because they dislike the choice rather than because it falls outside the list's parameters-in this case, if a book first published in an earlier year snuck in, for example, I could remove it-can lose her membership we are a careful lot. Removing books from the lists can be done by librarians. For those that read advance copies for review, there is a bit of a lag time before we can vote for books about to be published, but otherwise it works well. Some lists-and happily, this is one-have an automatic system that lets you know which of the books you've listed on your shelves are eligible (first published in 2017) and which are not, so that you don't vote for a book that doesn't qualify.

Above the list and slightly to the right, there's a tab that says 'Add Books to This List.' When you click that, your own list of shelves becomes available to you on the left.

The person that invents the list puts his or her favorites on to start it rolling, and writes the title and parameters as a subscript to tell us what is allowed and what isn't. Janee_dark&eroticreads4me wrote: 'How do the books get chosen for this list? Im surprised by some on and off.'

Ny times best books to read 2017