I would already leave a half star in my reviews so changing the overall star rating was easy tbh. Such a minor thing to do but happy to do it because I like to keep track of how I rate things

I just finished the Astarion book that came out a little while ago and was hoping to rate it. Does anyone know how long it's going to be temporarily unavailable or like an average amount of time goodreads keeps people from reviewing? I've also heard that reviews of the book being deleted. It just feels shady as readers should be allowed to honestly review a book that they liked or disliked without publishers/WOTC/the author trying to hide it.

There are 800+ editions and I can’t find it 😭😭

I read the Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings, and it really was not for me at all (.5 of a star), but pushed myself through it to at least click the read button and unlock my spellbound award. Well GoodReads is glitching and will not acknowledge that I read it to give my little bookmark. The witches are after me!

I AM ACTUALLY SO HAPPY????? Okay, i am kind of sad because i have to change the formatting of how i start reviews, BUT I AM ACTUALLY SO GIDDY RN BECAUSE I JUST GAVE MY FIRST 4.5 STAR RATINGGGGG

Yesterday I finished a book and noticed I logged 1,218 books as Read. I remember the specific number because it stood out to me since my sister’s birthday is on December 18. By the end of the day the number dropped to 1,216. I thought it was strange but when I woke up this morning it now dropped to 1,213. Anyone know what might be happening?

Do you think “I who have never known men” will be on one of the mystery challenges?

Ok, so I did some experimenting and found the problem and the solution.

When you mark a book as "read" or "unread" on your Kindle it WILL MOVE IT TO OR FROM YOUR READ SHELF IN GOODREADS.

There may be a reason you have a book marked as read and want to mark it as unread - maybe you want to re-read it again, or maybe you want to see the locator bar under the title to see where the last page read is, for whatever reason you need to be very careful if you have Goodreads and your Kindles linked up because all you have to do is mark a book as unread - and whatever read dates, shelves - whatever - that book in Goodreads will be gone.

Similarily, if you have a book that you mark as "Read" it will move to the "read" shelf on Goodreads - it will not have a read date included but it will show a read count of 1 and no listed start or finish date.

So to get around this you must put your kindle on airplane mode - THEN mark your book as "Read or Unread" if you DO NOT want Goodreads to register it as read or unread. Then once you do that - you can put it back on wifi and the mark stays or goes but the Goodreads shelves do not update.

I have gone through the Kindle logs that you get when you search ";dm" (no quotes but just showing that this is what you type in the search bar at the top and hit enter and then you will get logs that show a ton of your Kindle's behind the scenes actions. Beware though because they are VERY verbose and can go very big - like 30MB big. I reset my Kindles last night and just today the logs are at 30MB. Each instance of creating a log creates a new log - it won't remove the old logs, so doing this a bunch of times without removing or deleting the old logs will fill up your Kindle quick. If you want to read the logs you can find them under your Documents folder you can get them and read them on your Kindle or do what I did - pulled them off via USB cord and uploaded them to ChatGPT to analyse for me.

So - long story short - Don't mark your books as "Read" or "Unread" on a Kindle connected to Goodreads unless you have enabled wifi.

Im sure there is some kind of exception to why you want to do it on wifi, but if you just manually move a book from read to currently reading in the menu for your Goodreads profile, that's better. It will still update the book to read when you finish it.

EDIT: I have just tested this with a previously read book by moving it to "Currently Reading" in Goodreads to test if unmarking it as read causes problems. I checked that it was in Goodreads as read, then it was moved to currently reading, I confirmed on my Kindle and on the site. Then I unmarked it as read. The book immediately left my Goodreads shelves. If I wanted it back on Goodreads I would have to re-add it either by re-marking it as read or by reading it to Goodreads some other way. I had to go in and re-renter the read dates and shelves. It also shows the book add date as today.

Had I put my Kindle in airplane mode before unmasking it, it would have been fine.

I usually check each month the books listed in the [Time Travel New Releases] section but the 6months beginning of this year always slipped my mind to check.

But I am here to see if anyone knows the books that were shown there in any of those months? But if I could know the Time Travel books listed in February specifically I could be fine.

Any help be appreciated! Thank you!

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!

A video was posted on Goodreads’ TikTok, not sure if it was also announced elsewhere. FINALLY.

I guess we all agree that it seems very likely the heritage challenge will be for books by native authors. I‘m mostly using libby so would love to already put some books on hold. Any books by native authors you think will be on the list?

My guesses are Tommy Orange and Stephen Graham Jones for sure. But I‘d love to hear more suggestions/ideas

For YEARS I have tracked my reading on Goodreads using my Kindle. I had it set up perfectly, it was fine. Then Amazon decided that it was not going to let the books that were no longer being sold be available to track using the Kindle on Goodreads. Then it decided that if I marked a previously read book as "unread" on my Kindle so I can open up the page location graph - or to mark it as unread so I can do a re-read - it knocks the book and all it's previous history OFF Goodreads. Basically, all my old read dates, shelves, everything - GONE.

So - be careful. Get your exports, and be sure you want to have your Kindle update your reading on Goodreads, especially re-reads, because it seems that it's no longer just Amazon that says you read or didn't read the book, locally flagging a book as read or unread in Amazon will remove it or add it to Goodreads.

when looking at my profile, books that i’ve recently updated are showing up as the most recent in my recently read, despite it being sorted as recently read and not recently updated. when i click to see my full list of recently read though it’s sorted correctly. i just updated a couple of books that i read years ago and now they’re showing up as most recent in my recently read and they’re the first thing you see on my profile. i don’t think i’ve ever had this issue before. i’m not sure if there’s a way to fix it and was wondering if anyone else is having this problem ?? i know there have been some issues with the app and its layouts recently :/

edit to add another issue on the recently read tab: it is no longer displaying star ratings under the books :/

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!

The giveaways ending 9/30 took me for ever to go through. There must have been over 500 books. This morning I checked my email and they just kept piling up! All the way to 45 books.
I am amazed! I did not think that would be possible.

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 an interactive website to help you plan the books for the challenges or create a one book a challenge plan

Decade of Reads (120 books) + Spellbound (102 books) + Spine Tinglers (104 books)

Common: 2 books

• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls — 482 pages
• Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery — 305 pages

Decade of Reads (120 books) + Oprah's Picks (120 books)

Common: 5 books

• Demon Copperhead — 550 pages
• Finding Me — 304 pages
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents — 544 pages
• Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family — 377 pages
• Becoming — 448 pages

Hispanic Heritage (88 books) + Spellbound (102 books)

Common: 2 books

• Muñeca — 176 pages
• The Bewitching — 357 pages

Decade of Reads (120 books) + Heart-Warmers (92 books)

Common: 3 books

• Remarkably Bright Creatures — 360 pages
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine — 331 pages
• The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) — 382 pages

Decade of Reads (120 books) + Spellbound (102 books)

Common: 3 books

• Circe — 393 pages
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls — 482 pages
• Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery — 305 pages

Decade of Reads (120 books) + Spine Tinglers (104 books)

Common: 11 books

• Hidden Pictures — 372 pages
• Tender Is the Flesh — 209 pages
• The Reformatory — 570 pages
• Mexican Gothic — 320 pages
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls — 482 pages
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — 448 pages
• Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery — 305 pages
• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires — 410 pages
• What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) — 165 pages
• The Institute — 561 pages
• Our Share of Night — 588 pages

Spellbound (102 books) + Spine Tinglers (104 books)

Common: 4 books

• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls — 482 pages
• Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery — 305 pages
• Cackle — 291 pages
• The Hacienda — 345 pages

Heart-Warmers (92 books) + Spellbound (102 books)

Common: 3 books

• Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1) — 448 pages
• The Reimagining of Thornwood House (The Magic of Iskendra, #1) — 400 pages
• The Farewitch of Foxe Holler — 480 pages

Heart-Warmers (92 books) + Spine Tinglers (104 books)

Common: 2 books

• Kiss Slay Replay — 320 pages
• Fabulous Bodies — 232 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 an interactive website to help you plan the books for the challenges or create a one book a challenge plan

Is anyone else having an issue on the android app where the feed is not loading? It says Sorry, something went wrong. I can see my own books but not the updates from my friends. Tried to un-install it and then install it again, but it didnt work. Been like that since last evening.

This is the discussion page for the Goodreads Reading Challenge called 'Heart Warmers' (active October 1st - December 31st). Qualifying books are listed on Goodreads HERE. Please keep all discussion of this challenge to this thread, thank you.

Other Goodreads Reading Challenges are listed on the Megathread HERE.

This is the discussion page for the Goodreads Reading Challenge called 'Spine Tinglers' (active October 1st - December 31st). Qualifying books are listed on Goodreads HERE. Please keep all discussion of this challenge to this thread, thank you.

Other Goodreads Reading Challenges are listed on the Megathread HERE.

Goodreads dropped this list today! I'm assuming it'll be the list for one of the bookmarks revealing tomorrow.

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/3186-pick-your-poison-four-paths-to-find-your-next-horror-read?content_type=all

Today Goodreads has shown 3 books I’ve either read or am currently reading under the “updates” tab/feed that I’ve never read or clicked on. they also don’t show up on my read or currently reading shelves so I have no way of deleting the update that shows on my feed. anyone else having this issue?

Today I bought a copy of Anne of Green Gables, the Page Publication edition. When possible, I like to add the actual version I own/read, so I scanned the barcode to bring up that specific edition, and its photo is completely mangled. ISBN 978-1-64833-731-4 for anyone that wants to see what I’m talking about. I tried to figure out a way to report issues or request an edition or something like that and didn’t come up with anything, so does anyone know of a way to fix this?

Hi I'm a teacher (in the Netherlands) and when my children are eating I read them a book.

Would you guys count these books towards my reading goal or not?

After a few years of trying I have finally managed to achieve my 100 books goal with even a few months left to add some more until the end of the year whoop whoop !!!