Verdicts

Every book gets exactly one. They aren't ranked, and this is the only place a judgment is recorded; everything else on the site describes the book rather than grading it.

Forced on friendsone book
You didn't recommend it. You made sure they read it.
Stayed with me3 books
It lodged, whether or not you'd inflict it on a friend.
Admired more than enjoyedone book
The craft earns respect the experience didn't.
Great ride, no destinationone book
All pleasure, nothing at the end. The exact inverse of the shelf above.
Glad I read itempty
No regrets, no evangelism. The biggest shelf, and that's fine.
Not for me, but not its faultempty
Clearly good, clearly someone else's book.
Lost meempty
Couldn't follow it, couldn't stay with it. Absorbs the abandoned ones, since the curve already shows where it stopped.