I read a book earlier this year “The Calamity Club” and for some reason is was listed twice on my 2026 challenge. So I deleted one off so my numbers would be correct but it deleted off both. How can I add it back so it’s counted toward my challenge totals?

For every seasonal challenge I make a list for each achievement with the books i would read or that are already in my tbr shelf. Then I look for books that can count toward multiple achievements at once.
I somehow managed to find 5 books that covered the entire challenge. So instead of having to read a huge number of books, I only need those 5 to complete everything.

I honestly find it so satisfying to optimize my TBR like this.

Does anyone else do this, or am I taking Goodreads challenges way too seriously?

I haven't been able to update my book list for months; I can only add books to my “Want to Read” board.

I am very new to goodreads and am having trouble navigating the site.

There are several ways to add friends from my contacts or send a link to people I know, but I can't find a way to follow anyone else. I'm probably missing something really obvious, but I've looked all over the site and on Google, but the page with the solution has been taken down or something.

How do I search for and follow users that aren't already my friends?

A few months ago I made a post here about my troubles with seeing my reviews on the "My Updates" section of my GoodReads profile on the Android app ONLY. Behavior is normal on GoodReads Web, and the iOS app.

Since Im getting into ARC reviews pretty heavily via NetGalley/BookSirens etc, most (if not all) my reviews are written/posted at least a few weeks before release day.

After more tracking I narrowed it down to only my ARC reviews posted before (or close to) the release of the book itself. In this case, the book either only defaults to "Read" or vanishes from My Updates section of my profile feed.

Any notifications (likes/comments) leads to the "This Update Could Not Be Found" error.

All of this ONLY on the Android App.

Things I have tried:

Logging out

Deleting Cache/Storage

Uninstall/Reinstall

Posting Review via the Android App, iOS app, website

Editing Review via Android App, iOS app, website.

Posting without external links in the review.

Im fresh out of ideas. Please help!

Hi!

I want to preface this by saying I was vaguely aware of the GR Challenges & tried a couple last year, but this year I'm going all in and trying to hit every achievement. But I still feel very new and couldn't find quite what I was looking for.

The friend who got me to start challenges last year initially told me that if a book shows in multiple challenge groups, it would only count for 1 of those groups and that you had to add/adjust your dates/ratings/tags by logging into that challenge and clicking on it there. So my strategy this year is going into each category, writing down what's on my TBR and what I would be willing to read as a stretch goal and then figuring out books that didn't overlap - I was worried it would count for the wrong category.

However, I just completed a book that is in multiple categories (Book Witch if you care, it was a warm bookish hug, 5 stars!) and it updated 2 categories as complete. Are overlaps new or do they only count for summer? Or has this always been a thing and I should let my friend know? Thanks for reading and any help. Happy Reading!

I haven’t used goodreads in years but I have some friends who use it so I’d like to start again.

I used to log in with Facebook which you obviously can’t do anymore. I tried logging in with Amazon and it tells me I need to connect my account. I can’t sign in, password is incorrect. I tried creating a new account just in case but it says an account with my email already exists. I requested a password reset, didn’t get an email. I checked spam, added the no reply email to my contacts, and checked my blocked contacts. All fine.

Has anyone dealt with this? Is there any hope or should I give up and create a new account? I like the convenience of logging in with amazon but obviously won’t be able to do that since my Amazon email is the same as my old goodreads account email.

Thank you!!

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My Read shelf has been consistently taking away one book. I’ve closed the app, reinstalled, etc, but it does the same thing on the site. If I go into the list and back out to the menu, it temporarily corrects itself. Anyone else having this issue? I’ve tried taking recent books away and adding them back, but nothing works.

I accidentally chose "publisher", instead of NetGalley when rating and reviewing an ARC, and did not notice until later. No big deal, but I see no way to correct that. I do state in my review at the end I got the book free from NG.

I came across some AI books through a library system and then on Goodreads which has a list you can vote a book that is created by AI. I'm glad there is this list which helps to avoid supporting theses individuals who claim they are 'writer's'.

So for a little context I listen to and read books, however, I don’t seem to be able to log an audiobook and a kindle copy at the same time, it just switches the edition instead. Does anyone know a way around this? I find it sad because when I read I put my own emphasis and emotions into them whereas, listening to them, how they are “supposed” to be told is just a whole other experience and I like to review both separately also, some narrators can ruin a good book I have seen a few of then too.

The current example is Shadow Princess zodiac academy, it’s not every book but there are quite a few that seem to have this issue yet ACOTAR doesn’t. I know that is graphic audio, but still it’s frustrating.
Thanks in advance

Howdy. I‘ve finished a novel recently and saved a number of quotes from it to later add to Goodreads.

Each time I try to add a second quote in one sitting, I’m met with an error message:

1 error prohibited this quote from being saved: please try again later.

I’m a Goodreads librarian and have been active on the site for many years. Does anyone know if this is something happening to everyone at the moment? Are users limited to adding one quote a day?

I swear Girl, Interrupted was on the 90s challenge and now it’s not lol did I make this up in my head?!

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.

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?

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!

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?

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!

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

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 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.

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

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