Question regarding subtitles

[Quentin]

This is a fiddly technical question about quite a fussy point, but, anyway, I'll try to keep it brief.

The book is currently listed (by me, the author) as Graves (A Distressing Novel). The publisher is a bit worried as it is listed elsewhere without this subtitle. I suppose they think that it will confuse people looking for the book. In the meantime I've noticed a) brackets are not how you are supposed to list a subtitle, and b) Goodreads doesn't count 'A [something] Novel' as a subtitle in its guidelines.

Although 'A Distressing Novel' is not on the cover of the book, I do consider it the book's subtitle. I am wondering what would happen if I changed the book's Goodreads information so that the title is given as Graves (A Distressing Novel), but in the 'listed as' field, I entered, simply, Graves. Is this possible and would it help to differentiate between the listed (catalogue) title and the full title?

Any advice welcome.

Thank you.

[Scott]

As you mentioned, things like "a novel" (or variations) are not supposed to be included as part of title, anywhere.

Not sure what you mean by "listed as".

[Quentin]

Seems like I meant the 'sort by title' field.

[Quentin]

Yeah, this seems to me like Goodreads telling authors what the titles of their novels are, which seems somewhat like the tail wagging the dog.

[Emily]

You will want to contact Support (staff) about this:

https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

[Quentin]

Thank you. Much appreciated.