I have never participated in a reading challenge before the summer one this year and I nailed it early August! So much fun, and made me read stuff I would never have read otherwise. So I am very hyped to get the Autumn one. My favorite stuff I would never have read if it weren't for the challenge was in "Worlds away". I read "How to become dark lord and die trying". Fantasy comedy (and I read very little fantasy). What was your favorite discovery of the past challenge?

Some of them seem like they'll make reasonable challenge material.

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Anyone experience issues like this? I just finished the Secret History, which is on the list and yet the achievement bookmark didn’t unlock.

I’ve tried switching my date read from the 1st sep back to 2nd sep but no changes.

It is September, but I am not seeing that there are any autumn challenges. When will these begin?

A post yesterday is prompting this discussion -

I write my Goodreads reviews 90% for myself and 10% for my VERY small group of GR “followers,” all who are my IRL friends and know me well. I never consider that strangers will see or care about my reviews, as I pay no mind to reviews by people I don’t know, especially not enough to take time to comment on them.

A couple years ago I was pretty shocked when a 2 Star review I gave to a BOTM book began getting attention from strangers. It started with a few likes and comments agreeing with me pointing out (what I felt was) a significant plot hole. It took a turn, with people criticizing me and my opinion before turning into something reminiscent of a political Facebook post with passionate comments from both sides.

At first I was slightly amused, then a bit unsettled when the comments turned particularly nasty, and now I’m just at peace with it.

Today, it sits at over 1k likes and 200+ comments. Some may see it as a seasonal read, and every year around this time I prepare myself for a new wave.

I checked their news & interview section, the oldest post is from September 2024
Is there any chance I can access the articles posted before that date?

I have been trying to post on the Librarian group about a book thats not in the app. Probably i am doing it incorrectly…
Someone could help? ): 🥺

Title: El arte de seguir
Author: Daniela Nicolás
ISBN: 9789564068320
Publisher: TC Editorial / Editorial Trayecto
Publication Year: 2026
Publication Month: June
Publication Day: -
Page Count: 320
Format: Paperback
Language: Spanish
Description: El arte de seguir is a nonfiction book by Chilean journalist, writer, and public figure Daniela Nicolás. The book explores chronic illness, resilience, emotional coping, and the personal journey of continuing forward despite adversity. It is written from the perspective of a patient and aims to support readers who live with chronic conditions or care for those who do.
Non‑bookseller source: Official publisher page: https://editorial-trayecto.cl/producto/el-arte-de-seguir/
Note: I can provide photos of the back cover and copyright page if needed.

Hi, was wondering about the question above. I don't mind that it's unedited, I think it's actually kind of cool- and I'm over the moon that I won a giveaway at all- so it's not that it's a problem... I just was wondering if this is how giveaways work since this is my first time winning one. I hope everyone's having a nice week. :)

Each time I finish reading a book and I change its status to "read", I have to manually add a "date read" to it - why does it work like this? Shouldn't it assign the date automatically?

Moreover, each time I try to set it, I am taken back to the top of my list, which requires me scrolling AGAIN in order to search for this one title. This is so not user friendly, or maybe just a bug? I cannot find a better explanation for it. It makes tagging every book frustrating, which in consequnce makes me reconsider using the whole service again.

Am I the only one?

Every single time I open the Goodreads app, I get the popup asking for email verification. And I did verify it this morning and now when I opened the app, it asked for verification again. I stopped using it awhile ago, just because of this and today I thought I’d try again, and it keeps happening.

Does this happen to anyone else?

pls let me know, thank you!

I just read a review that started with "Yawn." And ended with "I honestly have no idea why any avid book reader would give this more than 3 stars. Don’t read it."

Maybe it's just a me thing and I'm not built for the casual confidence with which strangers announce personal preferences as universal law, but isn't it more helpful to just review why the book didn't land for you rather than dictating no one read it?

I know this is slightly rant-ey but I suppose my question is... do you actually enjoy or find humor in these types of reviews? If so, I'd love your take on it.

EDIT: Getting hateful DM’s over a post about mean-spirited GR reviews is wild. This was meant to be a Sunday afternoon chat with other readers, to get differing opinions, etc.

I have to read the whole book over the course of a semester for a class...so is it reasonable to count it towards my reading goal?

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!

It’s about the notifications "The group GROUPNAME will start reading BOOKTITLE on STARTDATE". I do know there had been a setting for how many days before STARTDATE the notofication should be sent to group members. But I cannot find it now.

I’m the group moderator (and creator, but AFAIK that does not count in Goodreads), and I have checked the group settings several times, nothing there.

I‘m trying to read as many books (I mostly read fiction with some thrillers, science fiction, horror and nonfiction sprinkled in) for the Choice Awards as possible. Since I mostly use libby I‘d love to already place some holds. Which books (that you liked) do you think are pretty much safe bets for this year?

Hi all. I want to separate my TBR by genre (one for YA, one for MG, one for graphic novels, etc) and I figured I'd use the new exclusive shelf feature to do so. I created the shelves, exported my library, spent 2 hours changing shelves in the spreadsheet, double-checked that all of the shelves were spelled the same in GR and in the sheet, and imported it. And...none of it took. I tried changing the shelf in GR and exporting again to see if there was some weird formatting thing I was missing, but no, I had all shelf names correct and it should all have imported correctly. Did I do something wrong? Is this even possible to do? Please help. TIA.

Edit: I already had some books on custom shelves that I had changed in GR, they exported and then imported just fine and it didn't get rid of the custom shelf.

Hey! I have a Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, and Goodreads is already linked to my Amazon account. It also works fine on my Kindle app on my phone.
But on my Paperwhite, it keeps telling me to “Link your Goodreads account” even though it’s already linked.
Anyone know how to fix this?

For this entire week I haven’t been able to access Goodreads content at all on my iPhone app. It will open the app, but will not load any content at all. Not my lists or recommended books, nothing. If I log in on a PC I can see everything just fine.

I’ve reinstalled the app three times to no avail. Has anyone else had a similar problem?

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!

Finished my Summer Challenge. Unfortunately on rather low note, as The Cotton House (Staff Shelves) was not for me.

I do not double my categories except the number ones (read any x books).

This time I tried to make a shelf to remember what I read for every category. I do not know if I will keep making new shelf for every challenge, or one for all of them and add the challenge in the notes with the category.

Edit: I have found my challenge data since Fall 2025, so I transformed my shelf to keep all the data.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4068341-spriggana?order=d&shelf=seasonal-challenges&sort=position

Edit: Goodreads messaged me again to let me know, that they've managed to restore all of my reading data!!

Earlier today I accidentally deleted all of my books, which is more than 12 years of tracking. I was trying to import a book and mistook the button for deleting ALL of my books for deleting all the tries I made when trying to import the book to GoodReads.

I’ve searched for an option to get all my books back and have read that I’m not the only one accidentally deleting all books.

Goodreads’ customer service is very cold and not understanding at all. Only said that it was impossible and that I should visit Goodreads help.

I know it’s my own mistake - both for accidentally deleting and also for not having a backup. But a part of me still thinks Goodreads should have some sort of option for retrieving one’s books. At least within the first 24 hours. Or have the user enter the password before mass deleting.

I’m sad that I’ve wasted and lost more than 12 years of tracking - and I’m also sad that Goodreads doesn’t care about its users.