newbie, can I search by multiple genres AND sort or filter by rating?

I am new to LibraryThing. Have just spent about 1/2 hr trying it out. The main thing I am looking for is .... Can I search by multiple genres AND sort or filter by rating? For example: I would like to find the highest rated books that are in both the genres of Physics and Humor.

Any help would be appreciated. (If not on LibraryThing, then any other website?)

Physics and humour aren’t “genres” as LT understands them, but you can search the combination of the corresponding tags using the tagmash function.

This doesn’t take rating into account, but the results will be sorted by popularity.

https://www.librarything.com/tag/humor,+physics

Alternatively, you could just search for the author Randall Munroe

I would counsel against using rating for search purposes, as the ratings are not well defined or applied with a consistency across users.

>3 paradoxosalpha:

Not to mention that many of us do not rate books.

And even where there are many ratings, it makes a big difference if everyone gave 3 1/2 -4 1/2 or if several 5s are there with a bunch of 1s and 2s.

FWIW, if I'm reading Zeitgeist correctly, 13% of LT books have been rated (in the sense that the number of ratings on LT is 13% of the number of (copies of) books on LT). I'm a fairly avid "rater", but according to Charts and Graphs I have rated only 35% of my books, mainly because I (usually) don't rate books I haven't read cover-to-cover, and I read books much more slowly than I buy them.

If the OP identifies likely authors of works fitting his request, he can then click on the Rating statistics and learn not only the average rating of each of the author's works but also the median and standard deviation.

Perhaps a useful alternative approach to the OP's real goal is to post a request in the Book Recommendations Requests group, which has functioned quite well at times, I think.

>6 cpg: which is here:

https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/23175/Book-Recommendations-Requests