What I would like is a Book Challenge, where sometimes an entry is not just one book, but one of possible two or more entries.

This somewhat sounds like a Prompt Challenge, but Prompt Challenges don't seem to quite work like I expect this to, since I joined a Prompt Challenge, and one of the books had one entry, which I had read, but my progress on the prompt challenge was still 0%.

What I'm after is something like a Book Challenge with specific books that once you read them they are marked as done and represent progress, but sometimes a book will exist as a standalone as well as in an omnibus, so reading either would tick that entry.

Eg, a Challenge with three entries:

• Camouflage
• Forever Peace|Peace and War
• Forever War|Peace and War

The first entry is the novel Camouflage, and if I've read it then that entry is done.
The second entry is either the novel Forever Peace, or the (omnibus) Peace and War, which contains both Forever Peace and Forever War.
Similarly for the second.
So reading Camouflage and Peace and War would actually tick the entire list.

Other possibilities:

• maybe this fits under Prompt Challenges and I either don't understand how they work, they can be modified, or they could be enhanced for this
• maybe this is a symptom of the larger issue of tracking stories-within-books, so I can easily tell when I look at the book entry for Forever War I can see that I've read it as 'part of another book' (the omnibus) similar to how I can see if I've read it 'as another edition'.

I use the read books to recommend books to friends - but I would love if I could filter by rating (like a between filter - say min 4 max 5)

I would love an option to see stats by an author, similar to being able to see stats specific to tag.

When creating a challenge, you can create a challenge by prompt or book or number.

This request is that when I'm searching for a challenge, sometimes I want to filter it to only show Book challenges, so I'm not also wading through Prompt challenges.

Vaguely similar to searching for a book and being able to limit to a hardcover edition or paperback edition.

I notice the search already has a 'filter' but it only has a Keywords section. Presumably this would just be a second type of filter, perhaps a dropdown or perhaps checkboxes, for the 3 types (and either an All, or just combinations).

An opt-in for a limited communication to a challenge host, for a member to:

• flag a book for attention
• flag there is a missing entry

This limited form means Hosts can get some communication about Challenge issues, whilst also limiting the potential for excessive random messaging.

Use cases:

• Book Challenge is the set of books from an award, and a new award has been given and so the new book should be added to the challenge
• Book Challenges where the book is part of a set (such as an international award) but the wrong book has been selected
• Book Challenges where there was more than one entry for a year but only one entry for the year was included in the Challenge

In the absence of this, people just end up creating near identical challenges

For the archived challenges. It would be amazing if we still could search for them as it is a great resource to find books with very specific representation the content is already there generated by the users, please make it available ❤️

instead of percentage or hours and minutes being converted into decimals, the amount would be left as is

The Challenge Book sets are specific books, and it would be handy when looking over the cover thumbnails to see which ones you've read (whether with 'read' over them, or a tick mark, or a color highlight) before you add the Challenge

When I'm looking to add a book to my TBR or pick a book from my TBR to read next, I spend time looking at reviews.

If I see a review from FakeUserReadsBooks that's 5 stars, I'll often click FakeUserReadsBooks profile and see what else they've read and reviewed. Then I'll scroll for books we've both read to see if our ratings align. If we match in our liked and disliked books, there's a decent chance I'll agree with their take on this new book I'm considering.

I want to be able to go to FakeUserReadsBooks read books and filter to only show reviews for books I've also read.

On reddit I just saw a thread where people compared their 2025 mood maps and I saw that some had a second graph to see their mood map compared to that of their friends. I don't use the friend feature so I hadn't seen that yet, but it got me thinking that it would be interesting to see how my graph for 2025 compared to 2024. Of course, I can look at the 2024 wrap-up, but it would be convenient to see it right in the current wrap-up similar to the way it is to the friends mood map.

Edit: fixed some typos

I would love to see the platform adopt a more 'cute and aesthetic' vibe similar to PageBound or Fable. I'd love to have more ways to customize my profile, like changing my picture and adding a header image (think Twitter or Tumblr). Plus, choosing different color themes would be awesome for making it feel more personal and visually appealing.

I love the up next suggestions telling me the most and least shelved books on my TBR, is there a way to expose the entire sort order?

It would be really great if we could choose our own order for how tags appear in a graph, rather than only having the options of frequency or alphanumerically.

It would also be really cool if there was an option to choose whether or not a tag appears multiple times for rereads of a book. This is less necessary, just something that's bugging me with one or two of my graphs.

Otherwise I just want to say thanks again for building such a cool app and all the hard work you all put into it!

I'd love to be able to archive tags that aren't being used anymore without deleting them entirely. For example, I have a lot of tags that involve a year (e.g. 2023-challenges or 2025-non-xmen). I will not be actively adding those tags to books anymore, since the relevant year is over. I don't want to delete the tag permanently, because I still want to be able to look at the list and stats associated. But I would love for my tag list to be just a little less long when I'm applying NEW tags to books. I've got tbr-add-2025 and tbr-add-2025-01 through 12 for different purposes and it's going to get crowded once I started adding this year's list.

A few ideas for custom charts & tags

1. Segment by the lack of a tag
   2 Support for multiple tags in one section of a pie chart
2. The ability to apply a tag to multiple books at once, like a book selection when creating a new tag

As a cover collage with % read, like the monthly ratings collage

I think what I DNFed in a year is just as interesting a part of my reading journey as what moods I read

If you published the code on github or similar, I would consider helping address issues in the backlog. I bet other users who want to support you would, too.

I am going through my read books right now adding tags so that my custom charts will be up to date for my end of year reading write-up. Multiple times now, in trying to add tags (on desktop if it matters), I have accidentally deleted a tag instead. I'll have the box open like this, and I don't know exactly how I'm clicking wrong, but a tag will disappear unexpectedly. There's some UI lagginess on my end that may be contributing (I am not sure if this is an actual issue or just my own computer being slow, I did try it on two browsers with the same behavior but it could just be a problem with my wifi or something) but once the tag has disappeared, I have no way of knowing what I accidentally got rid of. I'd love for there to be a way for me to look at an edit history to recover these tags because for some of them like "rec-from-XXXX" there isn't a way for me to recover that info if I lose it.

When adding books on StoryGraph, I often run into issues with user added editions that already claim an ISBN but contain inaccurate or low quality data. Common problems include incorrect page counts, poorly chosen or low resolution cover images, or metadata that does not accurately reflect the actual edition.

Once an ISBN is associated with one of these user added editions, it becomes effectively locked. If a better or more accurate version of that same edition exists, there is no way for another user to correct it, clone it, or create an improved version using the same ISBN. This prevents proper edition tracking and results in long term data quality issues.

Feature Request

Please consider adding one or more of the following capabilities:

Allow trusted users or moderators to reassign an ISBN to a corrected edition.
Allow users to clone an existing user added edition and improve metadata, then submit it for review.
Allow ISBN recognition across editions so a corrected version can replace a poorly created one.
Add a flag or review process for inaccurate user added editions, especially when core metadata like cover image or page count is incorrect.

Value

This would significantly improve edition accuracy, reduce frustration for users who care about correct metadata, and improve overall data quality across the platform. It would also prevent early, low quality user submissions from permanently blocking accurate editions tied to the same ISBN.

Yay, I just saw the Question Bank is in Beta! Thank you ❤️

Once we're able to answer book Questions, I would love to be able to get a notification when a question is asked about a book I've read.

Alternatively, a book I own? Not sure about specifics, but I'd love to be part of the crowdsourcing.

Maybe we could also get an opportunity to answer questions immediately upon finishing a book!

I think it could be helpful - especially for longer challenges or ones with multiple prompts, to be able to pull a CSV of the challenge. When on the go, I find it easier to scan a list, versus going into each individual prompt to when trying to decide which to do next.

I would like to request improvements to the recommendation system, specifically how it connects recommendations to a user’s actual reading activity. At the moment, the books being recommended to me do not appear to meaningfully relate to the books I have already read, recently finished, rated, or even added to my TBR.

Even after completing the preference survey and actively maintaining my reading data, the recommendations feel disconnected from my demonstrated tastes. They do not seem to reflect patterns from my reading history, my recent reads, or the types of books I intentionally save to my TBR. As a result, the recommendations often feel random rather than personalized.

Because of this, I no longer rely on the recommendation feature and instead use reading challenges as a workaround to discover books, by exploring what other titles appear within those challenges. While that approach works to some extent, it highlights that the recommendation system itself is not functioning effectively for my use case.

It would greatly improve the experience if recommendations more clearly accounted for recent reads, highly rated books, recurring genres or tropes, and intentional TBR additions. Right now, there feels like a missing connection between my reading data and what is being suggested.

I sometimes read different editions of books and will have unread edition in my tbr. I would like to be able to filter/exclude if I have read a different edition of the book in my tbr list. Similar how I can search/exclude if I already own the book in my tbr.

If possible, would love a monthly/yearly stat for the number of books that I've finished reading that were apart of (or I added to) challenges I elected to participate in for a given month or year.

It would be great if it was possible to have a button or simple process to turn a tag into a book-specific challenge. I have a tag that I use to track which books I'd like to put on my list for the next year. When the book-specific challenges came out I started making it a challenge - which has been great! - but it's a bit of work to set up and since I already have the tag, I'd love an easy way to just turn the tag into a challenge.