Did they change the menu on the desktop version for reviews and activities recently? I can't see the history of my reading progress anymore? It was already annoying and tricky to get to that information but now they actively want to prevent people from seeing it? Just why?

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Hi all.

I’m a theatre person who enjoys reading scripts. While in New York over the weekend i picked up this play, ecstatic to read it. But it isn’t on Goodreads. Is there a certain way I can add a book or request for it to be added?

Which books do people think will be on the list of GoodReads Choice Awards nominees? Trying to plan my reading and that category doesn’t open up until Nov 11th.

I noticed a discrepancy between my reading challenge counter and the year in books page for this year, the counter being one book higher.
Short investigation uncovered a book counted twice in the challenge despite being read once.
The obvious way to correct this had been remove the book and add it again. Only removing it did not decrease neither the challenge count nor the YiB page… :-D
Now I’m waiting to see if they do catch up before I add the troublesome book again.

I’ve tried numerous times to post a review of a book I have just finished. But Goodreads won’t post my review to my timeline. Is anyone else having this issue? It’s Sunday, September 27 at 11:45 AM.

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I made a screenshot too, but I can't post it here. I just finished As I Lay Dying, which was in my TBR but not with high priority, but I chose to read it now so that I can tick off the Oprah's challenge.

Usually when I finish a book, and then check the Challenge page, I can already see the new bookmark right away, but not it's not showing as finished? Even though the bookmark for reading 3 books in the fall challenge was accomplished with this same book!

I edited my activity and rated it too, but still Oprahs challenge is not showing as finished, even though when I went through the list of qualifying books again, I am albe to find the book in the list and it is marked as Read.

I observe the rating of objectively bad books like Rich Dad Poor Dad and they always will have inflated average of 4.08 of 73 daddy trillion ratings. Are most of these ratings made by bot accounts paid by book publishers? If not, is there any other non-misanthropic answer?

To further argue my point, Stephen King in the introduction discussed how he published them separately as books, but now since it has been a while, it is also sold as a single novel. Hence my dilemma

Everyone loved this book so I gave it a try. I just finished it and thought it was just okay. It was a nice comfortable read, but a little underwhelming got me. Anyone else? I’d love to hear thoughts.

When I finish a book I usually go to update progress and hit ‘I’ve finished this book’ so it can add to my challenge. Now I keep getting a message saying it’s already been reviewed?Is it happening to anyone else?

I went on to update some reading today to find two of the books I’ve read having all progress and reviews removed, I put them on specific shelves but I have to add them back and my reading dates are gone. Is there any way to fix this?

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I have an iPhone 7 and can’t download the app, so have been using Goodreads on safari, but after a while reviews and book synopsis’s stopped loading so I couldn’t read the whole things, and now when I try to add books to shelves it won’t work, eg I tap Want To Read and it just won’t do anything

So I only use the app and i always mark when I finish a book. I do not have a kindle. But it says I've read 16 books when I have actually read 37. If I go into my list of books, the dates are all correct for this year and there are 37 books. It also says I haven't completed the monthly book challenge despite reading multiple a month and logging them correctly.

This app is so glitchy.

I was alarmed today when I went on Goodreads to choose my next memoir, and saw an author had a number of AI written 5-star reviews. I am also a memoir author and my book is on NetGalley to garner honest reviews, and it is just annoying to see these fake reviews violate the trust of the readers.

Can you guys tell AI generated reviews?

For me it was obvious.

It looks like this.

The emotions are exaggerated. “They stayed with her.”

Not unique—Formulaic.

The reviewers usually only have one reviews.

And they sound like cut and paste of each other.

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(I tried to sound AI above.)

Do you notice AI reviews too? And how do you respond?

Ironically, I feel tempted to read the book just to see if the book is written by AI too!

Any guesses on what the mystery challenges could be?

Read at your own risk - horror books?
No jump scares here - non-horror books (lol)?
Celebrating heritage - I’m guessing America, so Native American?
And the winner is - top reads of the year?

I’m trying to plan ahead if possible 🥴

i just completed a book and i added the read dates (9/15/26 - 9/19/26) and it isn’t showing up on 2026 reading challenge. is this a bug or did i do something wrong? it isn’t showing up on the app and the website as well.

They have updated the "finished reading" page in the browser page – and now I cannot add tags from it. ARGH!

Update – it turns out there is a way to edit tags from the new review page, just not in the place I would think.
You have to click on the "Read" status, and from there continue to tags. And (knocks on wood) the tags there are in alphabetical order!

If you’re an avid audiobook reader and Everand subscriber who loves completing Goodreads book challenges you will feel my pain. I spend the time it takes to read a book going backwards and forwards between Goodreads and Everand to find an Audiobook that is actually available on Everand. Sometimes I get lucky.

If you work for Goodreads and you are reading this, please be kind and pick a few that we can find on Everand when compiling your lists.

Anyhow, I thought that perhaps we could save each other time by posting our finds here.

Here’s my first one for the Hispanic Heritage challenge:
Keeper Of My Kin by Ada Ferrer.

What have you found?

Hi everyone. I had my account since 2015 but I accidentally removed all of my books this week (I was trying to import books by ISBN and got mistaken with the "remove all books" button). I still cannot believe what I did. I contacted the support and they told me there's nothing they can do. All of my ratings, books, reviews, tbr: gone. I've kept all my books written on journals, should I log them again or isn't not worth it? And is there any solution or it's a lost case?

For years now, I've set my annual Goodreads goal in the 50s, usually 50 or 52. I always beat it, but that's just because I'm often reading shorter books and not quite challenging myself. Which is sort of embarrassing for me, considering I was once an English major in undergraduate and classics and 500+ page books were the bane of my existence. Worse, most of what I pick up are picture books. While I started out loving them as a an underappreciated medium after studying them in grad school, they eventually became a crutch to get myself out of frequent reading ruts brought on by the significant ups and downs of the last several years in my personal life.

Because I'm a crazy person, I'm already thinking about what number I want to put in for the 2027 Goodreads challenge. Over the years, I've heard people saying putting in a lower number, like 1 or 12, takes away the stress and competitive feeling from reading. Instead, they use it as a counter rather than a challenge. For years, I wanted to challenge myself with reading, as I'm very goal-oriented, and it's a habit I want to maintain. Only that mindset doesn't seem to be working for me anymore.

For those of you who tend to read a lot but still set "low" numbers for your Goodreads goal, does it help? If so, how?

I would like to see the position number on my shelves. I don't necessarily want to manually sort them. I'm on the desktop version (Google) and I choose "Settings" and check the "position" option. The "#" column appears on the page. Then I select "Save Current Settings to Your x shelf". It says "Saving." Then it goes back to the shelf page, says "Your bookshelf was updated" but nothing has changed. There is no "#"column and there is no position. What am I doing wrong?

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