Rowling and her alter-ego Robert Galbraith are veterans of the Goodreads Choice Awards, with Career of Evil having been nominated for Best Mystery & Thriller just last year. Goodreads - which says it has 18 million members - allows people to build lists of books they’ve read or want to read and find new books by sharing lists with friends via social media.Love Harry Potter and the Cursed Child despite its divided reaction among fans? Now’s the time to show it – the title has been nominated for the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards in the category of Best Fantasy! On the contrary, a rule of finishing things (36.6 per cent) and a desire to know what happens (25.2 per cent) will keep Goodreads’ members turning the pages of a book until the end. Another 18.8 per cent will abandon it if they feel it has “weak writing.” About 28 per cent of people surveyed will abandon a book about 50 to 100 pages in.Īlmost half (46.4 per cent) of readers surveyed say they will put a book down if it’s slow or boring. Most people, Goodreads’ stats say, will “always finish” books they start, with about 38 per cent claiming they don’t abandon books. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings are among the most commonly abandoned of classic books. New books aren’t the only ones people tend to start and abandon.
People may put The Casual Vacancy down, for example, because they have different expectations as it is “a far cry from the Harry Potter series.” Rowling’s first adult novel, The Casual Vacancy, are the most commonly abandoned or “unfinished” books.
A popular book recommendation website has delved into the psychology of abandonment and what makes people keep reading or set a book down before finishing it.Īccording to stats released on a Goodreads blog post on Tuesday, popular books such as Fifty Shades of Grey E.L.
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