A Note on Book Reviews I am guilty of scouring the best seller lists on Amazon, and Goodreads(now owned by Amazon) to find the best rated books to read. I’d spend hours scouring those lists, combing through books that have thousands of reviews. If a book has an above 4-star average rating on Goodreads, surely that means I’ll like it, right? In pre-covid days, I’d use my phone inside Barnes and Noble to lookup reviews of books in-store.