storygraph

It’s that time of year where I beg of you to drop Goodreads (boo, Amazon!) and start using The StoryGraph to track your reading. There are so many reasons that I love StoryGraph and I’ve definitely sung those praises in the past*. But this year they rolled out a new feature that I absolutely adore–allow me to tell you about it.

I don’t know if you’re like me but sometimes I don’t like reading book reviews or even the blurb on the inside of the cover because of the spoilers. Sometimes I just want to know if the book will be for me without giving it all away! And they understand. So, they started offering a feature called “StoryGraph Preview”. They use AI (their own AI, mind you–this isn’t connected to, like, Chat GPT or anything like that) to create little blurbs to describe who will enjoy this book. I love this so much!!! It’s a feature that you have to opt-in to. So if you want to see this, you’ll have to go into your settings to get it going, but here’s an example.

I just bought this book the other day so hopefully I’ll be starting it soon.

*Other reasons that I love StoryGraph: Any money made on this app doesn’t go to Amazon or Jeff Bezos–it goes to Bookshop.org which supports indie bookstores (and obv the app creators)!! It’s Black Woman owned. You can mark a book as DNF (my biggest gripe with Goodreads). You can do 1/2 and 1/4 star reviews. If you’re thinking you don’t want to switch to a different app because you’ve been using Goodreads for so long and you don’t want to lose your data, never fret! You can upload your Goodreads data into StoryGraph. Yeah, that’s right. They’ve thought of everything.

But my favorite part is THE DATA THAT THEY COLLECT?! They know way more about my reading than even I do. Which is fun. Every month there’s a cutie little graphic to show what you’ve read and how you’ve liked it. Here’s a very quick look at my 2024 Books in Review (but there’s so much more info–I just don’t want to bore you:

Since, I’ve written reviews of each of these books, I think that I’ll go ahead and just link to each of the reviews and keep a simple list. But also please know that I am very generous with my DNF’s and my finished books have an average rating of 4.5 so believe me when I say you can’t go wrong with almost any of the books I read this year (with the exception of Salem’s Lot, Till Death Do Us Part, and The Mystery Writer).