September 2025 List of the Month: Books We Discovered On LibraryThing
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1AbigailAdams26
It's our 20th Birthday, and we're in the mood to celebrate! We've brought our September List of the Month forward, in honor of the day. This List of the Month is devoted to the Books We Discovered on LibraryThing.
Each member may add twenty titles in honor of LT's twenty years, and is encouraged to add explanatory notes. Did you find it through Recommendations? Did you discover it through another member, or learn about it on Talk? Perhaps it was a SantaThing gift or an Early Reviewer win? Given the personal nature of the topic, downvoting is not allowed.
For a complete list of topics covered so far in our project, please see the new section for Lists of the Month on the Zeitgeist page
We would welcome suggestions for future lists. Please add them here, and we will keep them in mind, going forward.
Each member may add twenty titles in honor of LT's twenty years, and is encouraged to add explanatory notes. Did you find it through Recommendations? Did you discover it through another member, or learn about it on Talk? Perhaps it was a SantaThing gift or an Early Reviewer win? Given the personal nature of the topic, downvoting is not allowed.
For a complete list of topics covered so far in our project, please see the new section for Lists of the Month on the Zeitgeist page
We would welcome suggestions for future lists. Please add them here, and we will keep them in mind, going forward.
2paradoxosalpha
I've been on LT for 19 years, and I must have discovered many scores of books here. Early Reviewer titles are the easiest to identify in retrospect, while to find books through the recommendations on work pages is so unremarkable that I can't recall any particulars. I have definitely found a lot of books through Talk and Reviews as well. But my first glimpse of a book is often when it shows up in Recent Activity because it has been cataloged in a similar library.
3paradoxosalpha
Totally dunno how to rank my list of 20 books. Best liked? Most delighted to discover? Hardest to find in the absence of LT?
42wonderY
>2 paradoxosalpha: Ah! Starting from Early Reviewers books is a good way to approach the question.
5Cecrow
I had a good idea, right? https://www.librarything.com/list/11404/Favourite-Discoveries-Through-LT
True, I didn't get a lot of takers when I started my list eight years ago, so I'm glad to see the idea being tried again under a higher profile. I think of this as way to show my gratitude for this online community. I really did only find out about the books I've listed through poking about on LT. Often it's the LT reviewers who sell me on it, and whose opinion I trust more than on other sites I might name.
I suppose it's inevitable that we're going to get a whole host of entries with just one vote for this topic. It can be interesting to see what some people had never heard of before tripping across it here. I had literally never heard of A Separate Peace until I found nearly 14k people on LT cataloguing it.
True, I didn't get a lot of takers when I started my list eight years ago, so I'm glad to see the idea being tried again under a higher profile. I think of this as way to show my gratitude for this online community. I really did only find out about the books I've listed through poking about on LT. Often it's the LT reviewers who sell me on it, and whose opinion I trust more than on other sites I might name.
I suppose it's inevitable that we're going to get a whole host of entries with just one vote for this topic. It can be interesting to see what some people had never heard of before tripping across it here. I had literally never heard of A Separate Peace until I found nearly 14k people on LT cataloguing it.
6norabelle414
I decided to add the books I discovered on LibraryThing in chronological order starting at the beginning, but I only made it up to 2013 when I reached 20 :-) I could add several dozen more!
