#StoryGraph

[profeminist]

Can confirm:

Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it.

"A prominent author’s decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads’s power in publishing — and raises questions about its longtime owner"

This Washington Post piece is paywalled, but if you click on the article via the Reddit link, you can get free access for 45 days through their partnership with Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/14qltca/goodreads_was_the_future_of_book_reviews_then/

The alternative: StoryGraph: https://www.thestorygraph.com/

[moonflower85]

I've completed my reading challenge for 2025! I didn't want to put too much pressure on myself, so I went with a lower number this year. Now every other book I read for the rest of the year will be a bonus.

[queerliblib]

it’s officially summer, which means it is OFFICIALLY reading challenge season! presenting to you: Queer Liberation Library’s Mega Queer Summer Reading Bingo (because really, who doesn’t love bingo?)

screencap the bingo board (or head to our website to download it) and tag us with your progress all through summer! ☀️📚🌈

(hint hint: the majority of the squares correspond to lists we’ve curated in Libby, so look around and see what you can find. it’s like a gay book scavenger hunt!)

want to log your reading while filling out your bingo board? we have a storygraph challenge for that! 😎 

[highfantasybobbyhillreads]

When your a “reader” (whatever that means) — but when you’ve been reading as long as I have, by which I mean books have consumed a great deal of my free time since as early as I can remember — you reach a point about three decades in where you realize exactly how good you’ve become at choosing books for yourself to read. This is probably double compounded if you have pattern recognition.

That being said, it has become rare for me to DNF a book, and rarer still for me to just not like a book. When I started the reading journal last year, I realized, I don’t really rate things below a three, and I have a lot of 5 star reads. Like, a lot.

So, I want to revamp my rating system, for my journal keeping, and because I have been rating more books on StoryGraph. I saw someone share their own rating method in a review on SG, and felt like it was helpful for me when reading their review.

Here’s what I was thinking:

5⭐️ for “I cried because I feel changed by this, or was otherwise so moved that I had to put it down and process before coming back”

4⭐️ for “this was cozy/I laughed/I will probably reread this”

3⭐️ for “I liked it, but probably wouldn’t read it again”

2⭐️ for “I hated it, but I finished for some reason, which means something, but I would absolutely never reread this”

1⭐️ for “I didn’t finish it because the grammar, structure, and/or pacing was bad/the characters were too hard to live with for that long”

No⭐️ for “It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t my cup of tea (typically genre related), so I didn’t finish it”.

[frenchlitclub]

Book readers of languages other than English, what website.s do you use to track your books, apart from Goodreads?

For French books, we have BookNode, Babelio, and Livraddict (as far as I know, please give recs if you know of more)

Would love to know if there's other language centric places like this.

[albinodino]

reading is actually a supplementary hobby to my true passion, tracking reading stats

[battlinghugetbr]

3024 (-58)

Trust me, no one is more confused than me. I calculated wrong at some point and the previous post was supposed to have a whole different number.

A bunch of books just disappeared from my tbr? I came here to tell about a difference of a single book, as I got rid of a duplicate, but then there was just a whole more missing and I cannot really figure out what books they were + it happened right when I exported my tbr, so maybe it had something to do with that. I do not really want to sit and try to figure it out, so I just take it as positive development.

In related news, I am starting on HRCYED 2.0 (without ever trying the first one), so the coming reading year promises to be interesting and I will be trying my best to use books from my tbr for the HRCYED prompts instead of trying to find something new.

Yippee?

[hedonsgaybookshelf]

WE ARE HERE 2025 Trans Reading Challenge

[miragecounseling]

yayyyy I did it! I hit my original goal of 69 books for the year!

In previous years I’ve read 20-30 books so this year I wanted to really challenge myself. I think my new goal for the rest of the year will be to hit 100🤞

[9fruit]

april reads woohoo!! five stars for almost everything⭐️ such a great month of reading and learning yay

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Women be on the apps.

The apps

[queereads-bracket]

ANNOUNCEMENT: SO I MADE A STORYGRAPH CHALLENGE

~Behold, a link

How it works:

Step 1. Join the challenge (you will need a Storygraph account)

Step 2. Read one book that was submitted to each of the six tournaments (with bonus winners category) anytime between September 7th, 2024 and [TBD one year from whenever we finish the last bracket of this cycle]

How to choose/add your books:

Option 1. I already added All Of The Books (including sequels) to the categories. You can scroll through the list and click the little + button to use a book to complete a category

Good if you're a visual person! But unfortunately books are in No Logical Order, despite my best efforts. Apparently Storygraph scrambles orders, alas

Option 2. Use the “add a book” option to enter the name of a book (please verify that it was actually part of that bracket, either via this blog or the handy dandy spreadsheet)

Please do not add additional books that weren't in a tournament, so we can keep the prompt lists the same as the bracket submissions

Other deets:

If you read a book anytime from September 7, 2024 onwards, you may use it to complete that category (unfortunately it doesn't detect eligible reads automatically; you'll still have to select the book to count it). Sept 7 is the day I posted the first queer fantasy poll, so I'm letting you retroactively count any reads you've done since the start of this blog

If you select a book you read prior to September 7, 2024, it does not count towards completing the category—let's read new things!

You can also select a book(s) that you intend to read in the future to fulfill that category, and it'll mark the category complete once you mark the book read

Some books were submitted to multiple brackets. In the interest of a CHALLENGE and READING MORE, let's aim to use a different book to fulfill each category!

Historical fiction, books from history, and nonfiction are obviously blank right now because we don't have submissions yet. I'll add those myself later; in the meantime, you can get started on the other categories

I don't have any prizes if you complete the challenge, but I will clap for you and bake you cookies on the astral plane, and you can feel awesome and hopefully enriched for having read some cool new books!

[sociologi]

this book was so good. i read it in april but i think about it at least once a week still. as a fellow tall girl™️ charlie lastra has my heart

[jakeperalta]

as found on your profile under "mainly reads fiction/nonfiction books that are x, y and z" — select whichever is listed first! feel free to add your top 3 in the tags :)

[duckprintspress]

Read Queer in 2025: A Storygraph Reading Challenge!

Love reading queer books? Love low-commitment chill reading challenges? Us too! Join the Duck Prints Press 2025 Queer Book Challenge!

Want to win an easy reading challenge? Then we’ve got the challenge for you: all you need to do is read one (1) queer book anytime in 2025 and log it with the challenge, and you’ll win our queer book challenge! Once you have done that, the fun begins: we’ve got 39 other themed prompts related to common tropes, character representation, author demographics, and more! You can also add books to each category, see what other participants are reading, and find some inspiration to expand your to-be-read pile.

Check out the full list of 40 prompts here! We hope you’ll come read with us.

If you joined us in 2024, you’ve only got 5 days left to log reading you’ve done and/or read a few more books like the wind to meet more of the prompts. You can check out the Duck Prints Press 2024 Queer Book Challenge, too – a few of the prompts for 2025 are repeats, but most are new. There’s lots of amazing books in the 2024 challenge, so even if you weren’t a participant, you might want to check it out.

And, looking for a supportive, friendly community to chat with about all your new reads? Come join our Book Lover’s Discord, too! Joining is absolutely not a requirement, but it is a great way to make some new bookish friends!

[book-enthusiast28]

i just did a deep dive on storygraph challenges and found some One direction and Marauders ones.

FINALLY, I FOUND WAY TO COMBINE MY LOVE FOR 1D, MARAUDERS AND BOOKS :)