"Editor" in both fiction and non-fiction is probably the most commonly used contributor in book data after author. When entering a new book manually it would be incredibly helpful to be able to tag a contributor as "Editor." I manually add a lot of academic non-fiction books.
I would really like to see estimates for how long it may take me to read something based on previously read books in my personalised summary for books. E.g. This lighhearted romance is 300 pages, similar to others you have read in the past. If you maintain the same reading pace, you may be able to finish this book in 4 days.
I tend to have a fair few ideas that I've posted in the Roadmap and I would love to be able to see them in my user profile or be able to search for my username to see any updates on them!
When browsing editions of a book, it would be nice to search for editions with a specific contributor, for example to see all the editions of Emily Wilson's translation of The Illiad.
This would also help in finding specific edition. For example, I saw that The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller appears in Emily Wilson's list of works. I could guess she's written an introduction/foreward at one point and wanted to see which edition that is. But the only way to find that on StoryGraph is to go to the list of editions of The Song of Achilles, scroll down and ctrl+F for Emily Wilson's name (there are 300+ editions so this took a while).
A lot of the time a person is only a contributor on some editions. When browsing the list of books on their page, I'd like to be able to see the specific edition that they contributed to. eg on an illustrator's page I'd like to see the illustrated edition of a book and rather than the default one; on an audiobook narrator's page it would be nice to see audio editions.
I know you just shipped an update to the scatter plot. Sorry for adding more! This came up as I was clicking around on the new chart.
Would it be possible to see the edition pub date on the chart and not just the first pub date? Maybe a way to toggle between the two?
I read translations and it's helpful to see when a book was published in the language I read it in against the read year because that's when it became accessible to me.
It would be good if you could add pages you've read but might not necessarily want to add as a book you've read. For me, this is novellas or short fanfics that I wouldn't necessarily add to my account, but sometimes I get in a binge of fics and can't track any reading unless I read one that is either already uploaded, upload one for it myself (even if it's very short and I don't want to add to my book count for the year) or pick up another book.
Would it be possible to just make user added tags visible without having to click on the little caret for each individual book? It makes visually scanning the page easier to have that just be visible.
I'd love to be able to mark a book as "read" without counting all its pages as in my "pages read" statistic.
A number of the books I read have pages I use as reference when needed (think maps, glossary pages, multiple pages of contributor bios in anthologies, several pages of endnotes and citations in academic books) but don't actually read front-to-end. When I finish these books and mark them as "read", those pages I didn't read get included in my pages read stats. Could you please introduce a way to mark say a 300-page book as "read" without counting all 300 pages as read?
I would love to see some of the creative ways that users are using Custom Stats. I want to use them more, but I need ideas! I could see this being something where you toggle on/off making a graph public, or maybe it’s just featuring them regularly on social media and in emails. Not sure what the most feasible option is!
The monthly reading recap graphics provide useful data, but the current visuals feel very basic and do not match the aesthetic standards of today’s book-tracking and book-sharing communities.
As reading wrap ups are highly shared content across platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest, more polished and customizable designs would better represent StoryGraph and support users who want to proudly share their stats without recreating graphics elsewhere.
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Improving the look and flexibility of these graphics would allow StoryGraph’s auto-created summaries to feel more polished and social-media ready, matching the quality of the platform’s data insights.
It would be brilliant if there was a way to identify yourself in StoryGraph as an author, and then have your books shown on your profile.
With this, it would then be brilliant if the author could update their book details/covers/etc, as and when needed.
I would like to request a toggle for tracking series that I've decided not to continue/finish but have finished reading books in (and maybe also to keep them out of recommendations).
And possibly for standalones a way to toggle for a book I've read to not be considered for recommendations.
I just discovered the question bank on a book I'm reading and I am so excited about it! Most of my book club members are now on Storygraph so I will definitely be using this feature!
It would be really cool if there was a way to save/respond to the questions. Maybe clicking on a button to add it to your reading journal so you can write out your response? Or a discussion forum so people can share their thoughts?
I would love to be able to filter past meetings by book title, author name and date, so I can easily check if the club has read a specific book or something by a specific author before, or check what we read in a certain time frame.
Hi! 👋 When looking at the Editions section of a book, it would be super helpful if the editions I’ve interacted with (read, reading, paused, DNFed, or owned) appeared at the top of the list - above the rest of the editions.
Right now, the edition I opened is at the top, then the filter, and then all other editions.
If I’ve read or own multiple editions, it’s hard to find them quickly.
Two possible improvements:
• Sort editions so that read / owned / reading / paused / DNFed ones always show first.
or
• Add a filter option to show only read or owned editions.
This would make it much easier to track and manage books with several editions - especially for people who collect, reread, or compare them.
Thank you! 💛
Hi! 👋 I’d love a feature that lets us link books that are part of a larger collection or split into multiple volumes.
Right now, StoryGraph shows “You’ve read another edition” if you read a different version of the same book - which is great!
But this doesn’t work well when:
• A single book is split into several parts across different editions.
→ Example: The Count of Monte Cristo is sometimes published in 3 separate volumes.
• Or when multiple short works are grouped into one collection.
→ Example: Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon is often published together, but also exists as three separate books.
It would be amazing to have a “contained books” option, where you can:
• Link smaller books that make up a bigger one (or vice versa).
• Automatically mark a collection as “read” once all its parts are read.
• Automatically mark contained works as “read” if you finish the full collection.
• See something like “You’ve read this as part of a collection” when viewing a linked title.
This would make reading stats, challenges, and collections much more accurate - especially for classics, anthologies, and multi-volume works.
Thank you so much for considering it! 💛
Hello! I would love to see a chart related to how long (on average) it takes you to read a book based on page count. Maybe for a v1, it could be a comparison of the three lengths provided by default, but it could evolve to show more custom categories (like in Custom charts). I would like to see how long on average it takes me to read a book that's 200 pages vs 400 pages vs 600 pages.
Being able to set granular private/friends-only/public visibility permissions on ratings and reviews would be amazing.
I don't want to have my reviews publicly available, but I would like for my friends to be able to see them instead of hiding them away in private notes.
As is the nature with the web, sometimes people create accounts and use a site for a bit and then forget about it for a stretch of time or get caught up with something else. It'd be nice to be able to filter the Similar Users section by users with recent activity (something like, "has reviewed a book in the last 3 months"). This way, you're more likely to see people who are active on the platform currently.
Would love a way to set specific tags to challenge prompts so that books read with that tag added will automatically add themselves to that prompt. This could be specifically helpful with large challenges like reading a book from every country. A participant could effectively tag each prompt. Putting it on the participant would also make sure people have full control over how their tags are set up and if they want to use the auto system on each challenge.
Often I find myself realizing that I have already completed a few prompts only when I check my tags.
One thing I miss from GR is the preview of the blurb of a book when you hover over the title/cover. You can see the first 100 or so characters of the description when hovering the mouse. (I've recently moved over from GoodReads - love it here!)
So you can get an idea of a book without having to click through to it, which given that SG sometimes loses my place if I click through and then use the back button to return to the results list would be really handy.
Hi! I have a tag I reference often. Right now I have it bookmarked in my web browser because in-app requires several clicks. I’d love the ability to star or bookmark specific tags right on the homepage!
Would love some sort of button, icon, or visual cue to indicate if a book is marked owned. Think like a blue check on some social media. Could tell at a glance if a book/edition was owned and then not buy it again in store 😅😅
Add a way for users to indicate that a book does not have numbered pages but has tracked parts.
I read a lot of trade paperbacks (collections of previously published comic books) and some of them do not re-number their pages when they combine the books. They do give you an indication of how many books/chapters are in the series (ex: 3 of 12, 2 of 6) so I'd like to be able to indicate the number of chapters in a trade paperback/graphic novel, put in what part I've finished, and have it auto-calculate the percentage and page numbers.
Example: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f4c81882-a81d-4335-bf5d-4f4ad8c51e71
This book has no page numbers but it has 12 chapters. So after finishing chapter 6, it would tell me that I'm 50% finished or finished approximately 164 pages. There's often some extra material in the Trade Paperbacks that don't count toward the story but I think the page number approximation is fine in these cases.