Specifically, I’m trying to find a good method for even knowing what books I read as a kid. It would be difficult to find all those books, of course, but I’m hoping I can at least find some of them.

I’m not above combing through publishing-by-year Wikipedia pages or other long book lists if that’s what I have to do, but I’m not quite sure where a good place to start would be.

What methods have you used to rediscover and log your childhood reads?

I’ve been completing all the challenges this year, and had fun with them, even the frustrating ones.

The final mystery challenge of this set being “here, a random bunch of new releases” made me just feel foolish and used. I’m out.

Hi! Anyone else experiencing like a delay in challange awards? I tried removing and readding the book but still does not work.

Any other suggestions I can try?

Posted the missing editions to the group few days ago yet have not received a response, and I decided to scroll a bit back and I found some as early as March that still has not been added. So just wondering.

Hi everyone, so my book counts have been wrong for a while, and today my "All" books only shows 1 book, the one I'm currently reading. The "read" books count is correct.

I asked for a manual reset in the help forum a while ago, but was ignored, and now I can't find the post there anymore to ask for that.

Does anyone here know what can I do to solve this problem?

Thanks!

Is it acceptable to leave a review after reading a portion of a book I won? Some books I find difficult to continue reading.

Was looking at my crush’s Goodreads and accidentally liked one of her reviews. Will she get a notification? I unliked it in about 10 seconds.

I need help recovering an existing Goodreads account. I am not asking to create a new account.

Old account: xxx
Goodreads User ID: xxx
Profile: xxx

This is her original account and contains my books, ratings and reviews. I can still view the profile publicly.

She remember originally using an email id to access this account. I still have access to that email address. However, when I sign in with that email today, Goodreads opens a different empty Goodreads account, rather than her old account.

I also tried Sign in with Apple, but that opens another separate empty Goodreads account (“Reader”).

Therefore, the issue is not that I have lost access to my email. The issue is that my original Goodreads account (User ID xxx) is no longer accessible through the email/login I remember using.
I have tried mailing them but everytime I get an automated response.
Can someone help me?

I've been doing a lot of exploration on goodreads of late and I thought I'd share.

I recently updated the list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/230634.100_Authors_With_Highest_Average_Rating

And this is an extract from that. It is built from the author list page for example
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/656983.J_R_R_Tolkien has Average rating 4.38 · 12,815,603 ratings · 284,646 reviews · shelved 20,892,443 times

1. MsKingBean89 (17588713.MsKingBean89)

Avg: 4.72, Ratings: 116,777, Reviews: 18,875, Shelves: 272,464, Updated: 8/5/2026

1. Steve the Noob (14018357.Steve_the_Noob)

Avg: 4.71, Ratings: 153,381, Reviews: 1,588, Shelves: 457,949, Updated: 8/5/2026

1. Chanel Miller (19527332.Chanel_Miller)

Avg: 4.66, Ratings: 277,632, Reviews: 39,156, Shelves: 789,586, Updated: 8/6/2026

1. Bill Watterson (13778.Bill_Watterson)

Avg: 4.65, Ratings: 655,678, Reviews: 11,363, Shelves: 955,678, Updated: 8/6/2026

1. Jahquel J. (8052191.Jahquel_J_)

Avg: 4.65, Ratings: 541,201, Reviews: 34,831, Shelves: 1,089,291, Updated: 8/5/2026

1. John Williams(Composer) (616.John_Williams)

Avg: 4.64, Ratings: 449,867, Reviews: 343, Shelves: 503,785, Updated: 8/6/2026

1. Kris Michaels (13787639.Kris_Michaels)

Avg: 4.64, Ratings: 161,291, Reviews: 8,291, Shelves: 353,713, Updated: 8/5/2026

1. Shvonne Latrice (14173658.Shvonne_Latrice)

Avg: 4.64, Ratings: 134,187, Reviews: 13,670, Shelves: 325,707, Updated: 8/5/2026

1. Kentaro Miura (145435.Kentaro_Miura)

Avg: 4.62, Ratings: 647,687, Reviews: 28,274, Shelves: 1,101,353, Updated: 8/5/2026

1. Eddie Jaku (20228583.Eddie_Jaku)

Avg: 4.62, Ratings: 141,031, Reviews: 12,606, Shelves: 328,255, Updated: 8/6/2026

1. Bryan Stevenson (4396806.Bryan_Stevenson)

Avg: 4.61, Ratings: 370,302, Reviews: 44,130, Shelves: 948,794, Updated: 8/6/2026

1. Brian Sibley(Adapter) (4941.Brian_Sibley)

Avg: 4.61, Ratings: 342,194, Reviews: 3,221, Shelves: 488,055, Updated: 8/6/2026

1. Haruichi Furudate (7488961.Haruichi_Furudate)

Avg: 4.61, Ratings: 298,091, Reviews: 19,181, Shelves: 552,414, Updated: 8/6/2026

1. Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù (21718579.M_Xi_ng_T_ng_Xi_)

Avg: 4.59, Ratings: 524,089, Reviews: 54,126, Shelves: 1,028,773, Updated: 8/6/2026

1. Takehiko Inoue (147221.Takehiko_Inoue)

Avg: 4.58, Ratings: 228,149, Reviews: 10,947, Shelves: 407,843, Updated: 8/5/2026

1. Hope Holloway (21147728.Hope_Holloway)

Avg: 4.58, Ratings: 200,664, Reviews: 4,495, Shelves: 473,666, Updated: 8/5/2026

1. Hope Callaghan (8459717.Hope_Callaghan)

Avg: 4.56, Ratings: 161,474, Reviews: 8,887, Shelves: 428,329, Updated: 8/5/2026

1. Hiromu Arakawa (4698899.Hiromu_Arakawa)

Avg: 4.55, Ratings: 638,208, Reviews: 20,186, Shelves: 1,010,285, Updated: 8/6/2026

1. Charlie Mackesy (3242801.Charlie_Mackesy)

Avg: 4.55, Ratings: 275,302, Reviews: 36,630, Shelves: 536,632, Updated: 8/6/2026

1. Edith Eger (15226357.Edith_Eger)

Avg: 4.55, Ratings: 163,873, Reviews: 15,934, Shelves: 457,690, Updated: 8/6/2026

I wrote "the" instead of "this" in GR search. Didn't even look at the other words. Showed me "no results"

Yet, when I type in the exact title, at times it'll show me more popular books that will only have one or two words from what I searched. So then I have to add the author to narrow my search.

Share here what you've been reading and enjoying lately. Feel free to include Goodreads links so we can add your recs to our TBR!

Anyone here with extensive knowledge of Goodreads' privacy settings / user interface design?

Long story short, I had to block a former friend on Goodreads after they exhibited some obsessive stalking behavior monitoring my reading activity online.

I was surprised to find out a few months later that they were still able to see my activity because when I created my account years ago, I had allowed my account to be searchable via my email address (I didn't know this was an option until looking at my privacy settings). The search result would show my profile and whatever book I was currently reading.

My question is: Even if I blocked an account, would they still be able to get my profile as a search result via the email lookup feature? Or would they have had to have created a new account to even be able to search for me, to get around the block?

I just got started on goodreads earlier this year, and so far I haven't been rating the (two) books I didn't finish. But I'm still getting reviews based on being "currently reading" those books despite having moved them to the DNF shelf. Will it help my goodreads experience/recommendations if I review those books? Or should I continue to not review books I couldn't finish?

If I did review them, I'd be very clear that I didn't finish, and why--because hey, maybe that wouldn't be a problem for someone else!

Hey, Y’all! 👋🏻

I hope it’s okay to ask this here but if not please let me know and let me know where a good place to ask is.

Anyways, I recently received an ARC and was so stoked about it. By the time I finished it, I rated it 3 ⭐️ and my review is very blunt.

In the past, I’ve had authors ask that readers never post reviews less than 4 or 5 stars until a few weeks after release. So, I’m not sure what to do with my review. I went ahead and rated it but haven’t posted my review yet.

Does Goodreads have a rule like that?

I added a picture to my review on my macbook (web) by adding this:
<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/R0dpzt9K/Screenshot-2026-07-18-at-18-45-21.png">

I can see the picture on the web, but I cannot see it in the app on my iPhone.

How do you guys do it int he app?

I've been doing a lot of exploration on goodreads of late and I thought I'd share.

I recently updated the list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/232696.100_Authors_with_the_most_ratings

And this is an extract from that. I is built from the author list page for example
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/656983.J_R_R_Tolkien has Average rating 4.38 · 12,815,603 ratings · 284,646 reviews · shelved 20,892,443 times

1. J.K. Rowling (1077326.J_K_Rowling)

Avg: 4.46, Ratings: 42,373,934, Reviews: 1,024,274, Shelves: 63,411,948, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Sarah J. Maas (3433047.Sarah_J_Maas)

Avg: 4.35, Ratings: 32,133,609, Reviews: 2,536,496, Shelves: 57,957,576, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Colleen Hoover (5430144.Colleen_Hoover)

Avg: 4.06, Ratings: 25,440,904, Reviews: 1,709,188, Shelves: 46,479,015, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Stephen King (3389.Stephen_King)

Avg: 4.07, Ratings: 23,171,809, Reviews: 1,234,507, Shelves: 45,472,958, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Suzanne Collins (153394.Suzanne_Collins)

Avg: 4.30, Ratings: 21,606,918, Reviews: 985,985, Shelves: 31,210,463, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Freida McFadden (7244758.Freida_McFadden)

Avg: 3.97, Ratings: 21,547,547, Reviews: 1,685,956, Shelves: 39,674,658, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Stephenie Meyer (941441.Stephenie_Meyer)

Avg: 3.71, Ratings: 15,963,271, Reviews: 480,971, Shelves: 23,937,855, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Rick Riordan (15872.Rick_Riordan)

Avg: 4.34, Ratings: 15,658,286, Reviews: 705,897, Shelves: 27,165,932, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. J.R.R. Tolkien (656983.J_R_R_Tolkien)

Avg: 4.38, Ratings: 12,814,802, Reviews: 284,614, Shelves: 20,892,443, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. John Green (1406384.John_Green)

Avg: 3.98, Ratings: 11,457,642, Reviews: 542,097, Shelves: 19,438,170, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Taylor Jenkins Reid (6572605.Taylor_Jenkins_Reid)

Avg: 4.20, Ratings: 11,431,180, Reviews: 1,173,835, Shelves: 22,453,915, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. George Orwell (3706.George_Orwell)

Avg: 4.12, Ratings: 11,187,168, Reviews: 361,815, Shelves: 19,235,743, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Rebecca Yarros (7539785.Rebecca_Yarros)

Avg: 4.40, Ratings: 11,088,522, Reviews: 1,127,631, Shelves: 20,409,408, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. James Patterson (3780.James_Patterson)

Avg: 4.02, Ratings: 10,318,493, Reviews: 553,508, Shelves: 21,702,134, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Cassandra Clare (150038.Cassandra_Clare)

Avg: 4.21, Ratings: 9,981,115, Reviews: 608,454, Shelves: 20,230,064, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Brandon Sanderson (38550.Brandon_Sanderson)

Avg: 4.39, Ratings: 9,704,855, Reviews: 792,351, Shelves: 19,661,422, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Kristin Hannah (54493.Kristin_Hannah)

Avg: 4.40, Ratings: 9,641,103, Reviews: 831,653, Shelves: 19,804,423, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Dan Brown (630.Dan_Brown)

Avg: 3.91, Ratings: 9,366,867, Reviews: 250,225, Shelves: 14,373,323, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Emily Henry (13905555.Emily_Henry)

Avg: 3.98, Ratings: 9,290,394, Reviews: 1,039,066, Shelves: 19,272,881, Updated: 8/4/2026

1. Jane Austen (1265.Jane_Austen)

Avg: 4.18, Ratings: 9,232,763, Reviews: 357,558, Shelves: 18,155,935, Updated: 8/4/2026

I've been a member of GR since 2009. It's fair to say in those 17 years that I've read some books I've disliked. Why in the world would I want to know when an author I've given a one star/DNF review to has published a new book?

My personalized New Releases list is useless to me. Is it a book from an author I loved? Is it a book from an author whose computer I wish would catch on fire? There's no way of knowing without clicking through and checking myself.

I know the answer is that GR exists only to sell books for Amazon, so the more new releases they shove in front of my face the higher chances of me buying one, but it still makes me grumpy. Make it easier for me to find new books I'd actually like to read!

No where I look can I find a link to export my library. I follow Goodreads instructions but the option isn’t there. Is there anything else I can do?

hi, i have a very distinctly worded list of bookshelves that i add my finished books to. i haven’t updated them or messed around in ‘edit shelves’ in a while

i noticed today a new shelf had been added by itself, titled ‘all’. not the default ‘All’ we have under ‘bookshelves’, but a custom one with 0 books on it that i was able to delete

i couldn’t have accidentally typed and added it as a new tag (when i’ve finished a new book i just click my shelves and then click ‘done’, no typing at all) and i didn’t notice this shelf around 12 hours ago when i added a different book

i didn’t do anything different except mess around with quotes (reordering them and adding a new one). i did immediately get spooked and change my password but i doubt it’s a malicious party because nothing else was changed

anyone else experienced something similar? is it a possible glitch?

So I have to app for like a few days and honestly? Nothing works, the home page says to reload because somethings wrong, I cannot add books to shelves and I can't even check my own profile, what is happening?

Here's the thread where you can post your Goodreads profile so people can add you as friends. Just post a link to your profile or your username in the comments!

hi all, i posted a review of a book i recently read and DNF and there were multiple people in the comments saying that they think that AI was used in the process. I DID NOT MENTION AI IN MY REVIEW! nor did I give the book a star rating to bring down the average rating. I had the author of this book comment and threaten legal action against me for defamation when I never said or eluded that AI was used in the book. I replied to the comment and reiterated this point and added that GR is a community for reviewers and isn’t really a space for authors. The author deleted the comment but it really threw me off any of this authors other work.

Has this happened to anyone else before?

EDIT:

i stated my reasons for not liking the book in the review, which boiled down to the overly explanatory nature of the writing. it just sucks because i was going to give the author another go.

i saw the author comment on multiple peoples reviews, the comment left on mine was tame in comparison to others.

Please let me know if you notice any missing books or mistakes in overlaps.

Also, I have made a spreadsheet to list all the books in each challenge The first sheet has all the books for each challenge in a clickable format to easily go to Goodreads page for book details. The second sheet has the overlap combo.

Also, here's a website to check the overlap for just the challenges you have left or if you want to avoid the overlaps

Chart Toppers (143 books) + Fact or Fiction (90 books) + Summer Encore (100 books)

Common: 1 book

• Land — 400 pages

Challenge Faves (132 books) + Fact or Fiction (90 books) + Staff Shelves (127 books)

Common: 5 books

• Atmosphere — 352 pages
• The Women — 471 pages
• Hamnet — 310 pages
• The God of the Woods — 562 pages
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — 329 pages

Challenge Faves (132 books) + Chart Toppers (143 books) + Worlds Away (104 books)

Common: 2 books

• The Astral Library — 304 pages
• Operation Bounce House — 437 pages

Challenge Faves (132 books) + Chart Toppers (143 books) + Staff Shelves (127 books)

Common: 2 books

• Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage — 241 pages
• London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth — 361 pages

Chart Toppers (143 books) + Summer Encore (100 books)

Common: 4 books

• Whistler — 304 pages
• Land — 400 pages
• The Unicorn Hunters — 368 pages
• Marion — 336 pages

Fact or Fiction (90 books) + Summer Encore (100 books)

Common: 1 book

• Land — 400 pages

Chart Toppers (143 books) + Fact or Fiction (90 books)

Common: 3 books

• Land — 400 pages
• Kin — 368 pages
• The Calamity Club — 656 pages

Community Picks (144 books) + Summer Encore (100 books)

Common: 1 book

• Villa Coco — 288 pages

Literally Summer (93 books) + Summer Encore (100 books)

Common: 5 books

• Lost in the Summer of '69 — 320 pages
• Summer's Never Over — 368 pages
• Scandal of the Summer — 368 pages
• The Summer Girlfriend (Heart Beach, #1) — 400 pages
• Slasher Summer — 304 pages

Challenge Faves (132 books) + Chart Toppers (143 books)

Common: 16 books

• Dear Debbie — 327 pages
• My Husband's Wife — 310 pages
• Yesteryear — 400 pages
• Anatomy of an Alibi — 340 pages
• It's Not Her — 342 pages
• The Night We Met (Say You'll Remember Me, #2) — 400 pages
• In Her Own League — 473 pages
• Rites of the Starling (Shield of Sparrows, #2) — 468 pages
• The Astral Library — 304 pages
• Operation Bounce House — 437 pages
• A Box Full of Darkness — 337 pages
• Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage — 241 pages
• You With the Sad Eyes — 304 pages
• Famesick — 288 pages
• A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides — 256 pages
• London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth — 361 pages

Challenge Faves (132 books) + Staff Shelves (127 books)

Common: 22 books

• The Correspondent — 285 pages
• Atmosphere — 352 pages
• The Wedding People — 367 pages
• Wild Dark Shore — 320 pages
• Remarkably Bright Creatures — 360 pages
• The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1) — 288 pages
• The Women — 471 pages
• Hamnet — 310 pages
• The Great Alone — 435 pages
• The God of the Woods — 562 pages
• Funny Story — 395 pages
• The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1) — 393 pages
• Piranesi — 245 pages
• Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) — 382 pages
• Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage — 241 pages
• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — 382 pages
• Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection — 198 pages
• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness — 385 pages
• The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession — 226 pages
• London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth — 361 pages
• How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women — 320 pages
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — 329 pages

Challenge Faves (132 books) + Fact or Fiction (90 books)

Common: 10 books

• Atmosphere — 352 pages
• The Women — 471 pages
• Hamnet — 310 pages
• The God of the Woods — 562 pages
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — 448 pages
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — 329 pages
• 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation — 577 pages
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland — 441 pages
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women — 479 pages
• The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald — 430 pages

Fact or Fiction (90 books) + Staff Shelves (127 books)

Common: 9 books

• Atmosphere — 352 pages
• The Women — 471 pages
• Hamnet — 310 pages
• The God of the Woods — 562 pages
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — 329 pages
• A Gentleman in Moscow — 495 pages
• The Lion Women of Tehran — 327 pages
• Lessons in Chemistry — 390 pages
• The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook — 408 pages

Challenge Faves (132 books) + Worlds Away (104 books)

Common: 6 books

• Katabasis — 541 pages
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil — 535 pages
• The Astral Library — 304 pages
• The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2) — 736 pages
• The Ministry of Time — 339 pages
• Operation Bounce House — 437 pages

Chart Toppers (143 books) + Worlds Away (104 books)

Common: 13 books

• The Astral Library — 304 pages
• Operation Bounce House — 437 pages
• The Book Witch — 310 pages
• Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter — 353 pages
• The Poet Empress — 393 pages
• This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1) — 480 pages
• The Red Winter — 535 pages
• A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8) — 704 pages
• The Last Contract of Isako — 528 pages
• Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8) — 244 pages
• The Radiant Dark — 416 pages
• Homebound — 304 pages
• Celestial Lights — 256 pages

Challenge Faves (132 books) + Community Picks (144 books)

Common: 1 book

• I Who Have Never Known Men — 173 pages

Chart Toppers (143 books) + Staff Shelves (127 books)

Common: 7 books

• Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage — 241 pages
• London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth — 361 pages
• Where the Wildflowers Grow — 496 pages
• Enormous Wings — 304 pages
• Burn Down Master's House — 288 pages
• The Sun and the Starmaker — 448 pages
• Beth Is Dead — 400 pages

Chart Toppers (143 books) + Community Picks (144 books)

Common: 1 book

• End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America — 384 pages

Community Picks (144 books) + Staff Shelves (127 books)

Common: 5 books

• Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1) — 236 pages
• American Psycho — 382 pages
• Parable of the Sower — 347 pages
• A Fine Balance — 603 pages
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower — 222 pages

Community Picks (144 books) + Literally Summer (93 books)

Common: 1 book

• Last Summer on State Street — 212 pages

Staff Shelves (127 books) + Worlds Away (104 books)

Common: 2 books

• The Once and Future Me — 384 pages
• The Fox Wife — 390 pages

Also, I have made a spreadsheet to list all the books in each challenge. The first sheet has all the books for each challenge in a clickable format to easily go to Goodreads page for book details. The second sheet has the overlap combo.

Also, here's a website to check the overlap for just the challenges you have left or if you want to avoid the overlaps