Series in TITLE vs assigned? only proper in title?

[Shane]

There are a few "Universe" series. For example with Harry Bosch.
e.g.
The Black Box (Harry Bosch, #16; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)

My question is that the book title is the official title from the author/publisher and they also define the series. Since the "universe" is a goodreads only designation, I am not sure it should be in the official title. I thnk it should bg assigned to both series later in the details but just not listed in the official title. I could not find any guidance in the manual.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

If the series meets Goodreads definition for a aeries (which I believe this one does but I am not especially familiar with these books), I see no reason it should not be included in the series section of the title field.

What Goodreads considers a series and what an author or publisher does are often different, but that doesn't affect how we treat a series on Goodreads or where that information should be displayed here.