r/goodreads

Hi, I’m a debut author with an independent press and do my own NetGalley with the help of a coop. I have been grateful to get many helpful and detailed reviews there which was also cross posted on Goodreads.

However, one reviewer, with a brand new account, that I unfortunately approved, requested my book along with five others ARCs and posted reviews in the same day (8 hours later). Her rating was two points lower than my average and the review made her sound illiterate.

I flagged the review and NetGalley must have agreed with me. It’s still on Goodreads. Should I ask Goodreads to take it down?

I understand this will happen again after the book is released, but I feel that this shouldn’t be allowed for ARCs.

I also heard that having a bad rating and weird review sells books. However, I still feel it should be an honest review, not a fake review.

What do you all think?

I noticed I have a tag for "all". It wasn't there before, and I definitely didn't create it. There's no books added to it.

Does anyone else have it? I'm not sure why Goodreads would add it, but want to make sure nobody's gotten into my account or something like that (though I don't know why an intruder would create a tag like that).

i usually don't update my goodreads until i've finished a book, so my currently reading shelf is often completely out of date. sometimes i forget to mark a book as finished for days.

do you update your reading progress regularly, or just when you finish a book?

Hey im new here in fact i tried to make reading books/novels and make them routine but i can't keep up the longest period was for a week maybe less and after that i forgot about books

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!

What are your thoughts about books that are rated lowest in good reads. Does it affect your buying choice and what do you think about books that are lowest rated on good reads but it turns out to be good.

Is there any way to add the source of the recommended book in my “to read” Iist? I do take some more seriously than others.

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!

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 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?

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?

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’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.

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'.

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?

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

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

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.

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?