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Explore Books by Genre!
Looking for that next great read? Have very specific tastes? Our new genre pages may be just what you need.
We'll show you new releases, hot trends, authors you've read, and popular books! Browse as if in a bookstore, but with the extra benefits of checking the star rating and adding the book to your to-read list right then and there.
You can search for something as general as fiction or as specific as zombies. In non-fiction, read about parenting, military history, or vegan cooking. Our categories are organized in a hierarchy, so you can navigate from the sub-genres section to your area of interest.
We've also got related giveaways, quizzes, videos, lists, groups, and even author interviews.
So how do we decide what books fit into what category? The answer is: we don't. The new genre pages use crowd-sourced information from your bookshelves. So when you create shelves like "memoir" or "politics", you're actually helping us categorize books and creating a richer experience on the genre pages.
View your all your favorite genres! From parenting to zombies, there's something for everyone. Get started on your favorite below:
Hover over a book cover to find the star rating and add it to your to-read list!
Navigate to your interests using the sub-genres section.
You can also find new releases by authors you've read.
Check out author interviews and other insider goodies!
Find your next great read now!
We'll show you new releases, hot trends, authors you've read, and popular books! Browse as if in a bookstore, but with the extra benefits of checking the star rating and adding the book to your to-read list right then and there.
You can search for something as general as fiction or as specific as zombies. In non-fiction, read about parenting, military history, or vegan cooking. Our categories are organized in a hierarchy, so you can navigate from the sub-genres section to your area of interest.
We've also got related giveaways, quizzes, videos, lists, groups, and even author interviews.
So how do we decide what books fit into what category? The answer is: we don't. The new genre pages use crowd-sourced information from your bookshelves. So when you create shelves like "memoir" or "politics", you're actually helping us categorize books and creating a richer experience on the genre pages.
View your all your favorite genres! From parenting to zombies, there's something for everyone. Get started on your favorite below:
- Non-fiction
- Fiction
- Children's
- Young Adult
- Mystery & Thriller
- History
- Biography
- Memoir
- Romance
- Graphic Novels
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Historical Fiction
Hover over a book cover to find the star rating and add it to your to-read list!
Navigate to your interests using the sub-genres section.
You can also find new releases by authors you've read.
Check out author interviews and other insider goodies!
Find your next great read now!
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Janelle
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Apr 05, 2011 03:39PM
Excellent, keep on keeping on Goodreads! Love this site. :)
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it sounds great but if it's going off of what shelf people put a book in, it might be weird since I've seen a lot of books marked as "young adult" but are actually not meant to be read by younger readers
I just took a quick glance, but so far I LOVE IT :)!!! Thank you!!!!!! I think I will use this alot!
Keep on truckin' with the good work Goodreads :D
Thanks for another wonderful improvement! It will make book browsing more fun than ever.
Wow. You guys just keep on amazing me. I can't wait to start exploring!
I wonder then: So my shelves are more meta data than genre...example: "Borrowed from Steve" or "audiobook" ...are you filtering for a specific key word? Should users attempt to standardize their shelf names? i.e. Science Fiction vs. Sci Fi vs. SF
Craig, librarians are linking shelves to genres. So science-fiction and scifi and SF are all linked as synonymous. And "borrowed from Steve" (and similarly unique-to-one-user shelves) will be ignored and not placed in the genre hierarchy.
Spectacular feature! thank you very much. This is very useful and fun to use. ^_^
Love the new feature!Question though: When you are looking at a book information page, is there any way to see what genre it has been tagged as?
The new feature sounds amazing!!!Keep up the good work guys!!!
Love this site!
This is the best idea Goodreads has had in a long time. Great work!
This site start to be like the facebook for bookworme ;) keep it up guys we love it
Brilliant! Thank you Goodreads, this will really help me to cut down time spent ploughing through the unwanted to arrive at :The:Good:
ThanksGR is excellent site i m so glad i joined it
I love the idea, but even after taking a glimpse at a Young Adult section, I can see many books were miscategorized. I doubt anyone on GR would classify Lover Unleashed as YA.
Thanks. GR is absolutely amazing site and this is great idea! :)
rivka wrote: "Actually, two people have it shelved as young-adult."Rivka, does it mean the program recognizes every shelf a book is put on, even if if only 2 people out of thousands classified it as such? Seems like it opens up a lot of room for error. A lot.
There has been some discussion of thresholds (IIRC, we were talking about a minimum of three or five), but implementing them is difficult, as I understand it.
Thank you GoodReads! I've been hoping for a feature like this since I joined the site. It's going to make it so much easier to keep up with my favorite author's and genres now.
rivka wrote: "Actually, two people have it shelved as young-adult."But that doesn't make it any less wrong. :/
I'm sure they'll get the bugs worked out, but over all, this is still helpful.
Emma, the trouble with these things is that they are a matter of opinion. I agree with you on that particular book -- but clearly not everyone does.
Thank you! A much needed feature I am sure to use!
So I was going to try and suggest that yo guys add tooltip to books that display the summary, because it's tedious to have to "Judge a book by its cover." Then I found this post, two things about the hover functionality, first, more summary text! Second, do it on all the pages that display covers with no info, like the popular page and other not just on Genres?
Great new feature.....thanks.I think you might want to add "The Golden Age" to your mystery genre for those of us who enjoy the classic books from those years.
Jill, someone would need to create a shelf with that name and shelve many books on it for it to work.
Jill wrote: "Great new feature.....thanks.I think you might want to add "The Golden Age" to your mystery genre for those of us who enjoy the classic books from those years."
rivka wrote: "Jill, someone would need to create a shelf with that name and shelve many books on it for it to work."
Found 'em! :)
Thanks for another wonderful improvement! It will make book browsing more fun than ever
Diana wrote: "it sounds great but if it's going off of what shelf people put a book in, it might be weird since I've seen a lot of books marked as "young adult" but are actually not meant to be read by younger r..."Yeah, I have a LOT of stuff tagged Childhood because that's when I read it... but it was not age-appropriate.
Neat feature, though there's a bit of overlap on functionality for shelves, for me. Always like new ways to browse, though, so this is cool.
