It used to exist ages ago..but it was removed as it appeared to be in the way. Most users' behaviour for search, most of the time, was attempting to find one specific thing, and the goal needed to be "help users find that one specific thing as quickly as possible" rather than having a whole filter menu. But it might come back, and we definitely have ideas for some form of advanced search.

This would be extremely handy to have, especially as there are no author pages as of yet. The issue I am coming up with right now is when I search to see what books an author has written, they are all jumbled up, with no order at all. It would be great if we could sort it either by "year published" for a chronological list, or "most shelved" or "most popular" for a list that sorts either by number of reads or average star rating.

Adding another voice to this request. I was hoping to search for “Christmas” and then filter for LGBTQIA to find some cozy Christmas romances, and was surprised to see that I cannot. Thank you for all your hard work!!

Bumping this since it's been a bit.

Honestly, not being able to filter search results or have an advanced search is one of the biggest issues for me. Having to use recommendation search to bridge the gap usually feels a bit clunky because it doesn't really cover everything I might want to filter by (author, language, reviews, more granular page count, if I have friends reading it, etc.).

It's coming up on a year since the last activity on this request, so I figured I'd bump it. All I would like is for the same filter interface that exists for the TBR pile to be available when searching all of goodreads.

Would love this too! My very specific use case is when I look up SFF authors, and I want to filter out everything but the novels they wrote, because often those authors have also contributed to lots of anthologies etc.

To add to the previous comments - I'd like to refine it further by a format, or language, or even an author list generated based on what showed up in the results

Another usage case where this would be very helpful: Being able to sort one's read books by multiple filters. It would be nice to be able to filter by "genre X by descending score" for example.

If it could come back, that would be appreciated. Maybe have the option for an 'Advanced Search' if you don't want it to show up all the time?

A sort by Pub Date would be great, as well as alpha by title or author. I also agree with kestrellady about the ability to filter on fiction/non-fiction. Also, some author's names are quite common, and I get a list of anthologies I have wade through to find out if the book exists at all - so an exact match option would be helpful.

Thanks for all the work you guys are doing!

I would find this helpful for non-fiction books, especially! Like if I'm looking for a history book about the Civil War and would like to make sure it was published fairly recently, or I'm looking for an intro book, rather than a complete one volume history, I might filter by page number.

It used to exist ages ago..but it was removed as it appeared to be in the way. Most users' behaviour for search, most of the time, was attempting to find one specific thing, and the goal needed to be "help users find that one specific thing as quickly as possible" rather than having a whole filter menu. But it might come back, and we definitely have ideas for some form of advanced search.