If you set up this data, a series page under the user would be helpful, showing the series name, the last book finished, and the next book. A status line with different colors to indicate status (read, not read, etc.), showing if we've missed a book. For the status line, sort the series by number; if not numbered, use the publication date or the added date. There may be room for more stats, similar to some other suggestions. This page would be all series on the user's shelves. Someone suggested adding a series status column, such as ignore, with filters and sorting, making it easier to find what you want. Looking at it like this, you could merge in a bunch more series requests. Like "Add all titles by author or series," a button for this could be on this page. Suggestion: "Include first books in the series," showing the series status line, if it were a link to the series page, would do this. The recommendations in "Additionally series functionality", "Series Format Selection", "Stats for book series", "Ability to follow a series", "Unfinished Series", "Ratings for Series", and "Multiple Series" have overlapping ideas.
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nitzanschwarz
Mar 15, 2025
I second this! I have been thinking for a while that I would love to have more powerful series tools on Storygraph.
Some additional thoughts I've had: I think it will be nice if we could see some visual representation of how far along we are in the series at the top of a series page - like maybe a progress bar or something (and maybe automated messaging like "you're only a book away from completing this series!").
It would also be useful if we could get notifications for when a new book in a series we previously 100% has been added to the database.
I also hope we would be able to customize the tracking in terms of whether it should include short stories or any installment that is not a fundamental part of the series ( #x.x entries in a series).
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ttwyman
Jan 10, 2025
It would be great even to have a filter option to filter out books that aren't in a series and also filter out them series that haven't been started.
I always start a few series and do challenges where you finish them you started and I forget what I've started. Having to keep these in a spreadsheet and written down is great but having to scroll through all my books to see what I've started isn't so easy 😂
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mere
Dec 13, 2024
coming back to this. Its come up in a book challenge I've joined for 2025 to read in a series you have started but not finished. Would love to be able to sort by book read that are part of a series, since now it is only an option to exclude books in a series in the search.
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ardenruth
Aug 23, 2024
I second and vote for this! I also have such a hard time remembering series that I am in the middle of as sometimes it can be years between books. There is already a filter to show books 'that aren't part of a series.' Would love to have the opposite one day if that's possible! Glad to see it's on y'all's radar :)
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Nadia
Feb 5, 2024
FYI, if all/most books in a series are already out and you want to track your progress through any, you can use the new Book-Specific Reading Challenges feature that just launched!
We will still eventually have some smarter, built in series tracking feature (because of course you don't want to have to make a challenge for every series!), including new book notifications and all that, but this is something for now!
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ardenruth
Aug 23, 2024
Nadia I didn't know about this. Thank you!
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laraneves
Apr 4, 2022
I agree! That would be a great feature.
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hwesta
Mar 3, 2022
Seconded! Often I'll read all the books in a series but miss when the next one comes out. It would be wonderful to see all the series that I've started that have a book out that I haven't read. This is partly available on the "Up Next Suggestions" page with "You were enjoying this series! How about picking up where you left off?" but I want to view that for all the series I've started.
I can see that this could easily balloon to too many books, especially if the author has pieces of short fiction or I don't want to continue a series. The ability to "ignore" a book from "there's more in this series!" or ignore a whole series would help manage that.
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If you set up this data, a series page under the user would be helpful, showing the series name, the last book finished, and the next book. A status line with different colors to indicate status (read, not read, etc.), showing if we've missed a book. For the status line, sort the series by number; if not numbered, use the publication date or the added date. There may be room for more stats, similar to some other suggestions. This page would be all series on the user's shelves. Someone suggested adding a series status column, such as ignore, with filters and sorting, making it easier to find what you want. Looking at it like this, you could merge in a bunch more series requests. Like "Add all titles by author or series," a button for this could be on this page. Suggestion: "Include first books in the series," showing the series status line, if it were a link to the series page, would do this. The recommendations in "Additionally series functionality", "Series Format Selection", "Stats for book series", "Ability to follow a series", "Unfinished Series", "Ratings for Series", and "Multiple Series" have overlapping ideas.
I second this! I have been thinking for a while that I would love to have more powerful series tools on Storygraph.
Some additional thoughts I've had: I think it will be nice if we could see some visual representation of how far along we are in the series at the top of a series page - like maybe a progress bar or something (and maybe automated messaging like "you're only a book away from completing this series!").
It would also be useful if we could get notifications for when a new book in a series we previously 100% has been added to the database.
I also hope we would be able to customize the tracking in terms of whether it should include short stories or any installment that is not a fundamental part of the series ( #x.x entries in a series).
It would be great even to have a filter option to filter out books that aren't in a series and also filter out them series that haven't been started.
I always start a few series and do challenges where you finish them you started and I forget what I've started. Having to keep these in a spreadsheet and written down is great but having to scroll through all my books to see what I've started isn't so easy 😂
coming back to this. Its come up in a book challenge I've joined for 2025 to read in a series you have started but not finished. Would love to be able to sort by book read that are part of a series, since now it is only an option to exclude books in a series in the search.
I second and vote for this! I also have such a hard time remembering series that I am in the middle of as sometimes it can be years between books. There is already a filter to show books 'that aren't part of a series.' Would love to have the opposite one day if that's possible! Glad to see it's on y'all's radar :)
FYI, if all/most books in a series are already out and you want to track your progress through any, you can use the new Book-Specific Reading Challenges feature that just launched!
We will still eventually have some smarter, built in series tracking feature (because of course you don't want to have to make a challenge for every series!), including new book notifications and all that, but this is something for now!
Nadia I didn't know about this. Thank you!
I agree! That would be a great feature.
Seconded! Often I'll read all the books in a series but miss when the next one comes out. It would be wonderful to see all the series that I've started that have a book out that I haven't read. This is partly available on the "Up Next Suggestions" page with "You were enjoying this series! How about picking up where you left off?" but I want to view that for all the series I've started.
I can see that this could easily balloon to too many books, especially if the author has pieces of short fiction or I don't want to continue a series. The ability to "ignore" a book from "there's more in this series!" or ignore a whole series would help manage that.