Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Not sure what you mean by on your lists, but I don’t think librarians can do anything with your shelves, you have to edit those yourself.

Sherri wrote: "Hi, Could a Good Reads Librarian remove a book from my books list? I read it last year but it just showed up again on my lists this year. The book is While the King of Prussia was waging war, who d..."

I think this happens when someone adds an "alternative cover edition" as I've had it happen myself (and why I never use that feature as a GR librarian). If you have it showing twice you should be able to delete one of them and leave the other. Otherwise just edit the dates read.

Thank you both. The book is on the “My Books” page. I can’t delete it. I’ve tried deleting it by the dates but it didn’t work.

That sounds like it's broken. You can try contacting Goodreads with this form:
https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

Hi Ellie,
I was searching for an author (using the "add book/author" function at the top of comment boxes) and found that the identifying number/link for this author is wrong if you don't use a period after her middle initial and gives you and error page when you link to it.

The author is Susan M. Love.

1) The link that the "add book/author" function provides if you USE the period after her middle initial is correct: Susan M. Love.

2) If you OMIT the period on her middle initial (which I have to think most people do when using middle initials in this search) the link provided is Susan M Love — which gives you an error page.

Is there a way to forward/connect the bad link to the intended link?

Thanks!

Tracy wrote: "Hi Ellie,
I was searching for an author (using the "add book/author" function at the top of comment boxes) and found that the identifying number/link for this author is wrong if you don't use a per..."

I can only edit book pages, this seems like a bug in Goodreads' search functionality. If Susan without a period existed, I could edit her books to match Susan with a period, but the error makes me think that's not the case.

Hmm, ok. Thanks for taking a look. I guess from now on I’ll be sure to use proper punctuation!

Hello Ellie. Could you please add the paperback version of Untold Night and Day?

ISBN: 978-1-529-11086-9
Published: Vintage (Penguin Random House) 2021
Cover as link above.

Thanks.

LeahS wrote: "Hello Ellie. Could you please add the paperback version of Untold Night and Day?

ISBN: 978-1-529-11086-9
Published: Vintage (Penguin Random House) 2021
Cover as link above.

Thanks."

I don't know if someone's been in and edited it already, but the book you linked to appears to be a paperback with that ISBN.

Now that's weird - it was a hardback when I was adding the book in this morning.....

Thanks for checking.

Hello, Ellie. Could you please add an e-book version of Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert.

ISBN: 978-1-4088-4191-4
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Edition date: 2020

Many thanks.

Can you please add the narrator to this audiobook

Texas! Sage
The narrator is Colleen Marlo

Here is the link to my library's audiobook: https://countycat.mcfls.org/Record/.b...


Thank you in advance.

LeahS wrote: "Hello, Ellie. Could you please add an e-book version of Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert.

ISBN: 978-1-4088-4191-4
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Edition date: 202..."

Had to add it without an ISBN. Goodreads says that ISBN is in use already even though when I search for it nothing comes up. So not sure what's going on there.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Book Concierge wrote: "Can you please add the narrator to this audiobook

Texas! Sage
The narrator is Colleen Marlo..."

Done!

Ellie wrote: "LeahS wrote: "Hello, Ellie. Could you please add an e-book version of Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert.

ISBN: 978-1-4088-4191-4
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Edi..."

Thanks, Ellie

Hi Ellie - I've just noticed that two books I've read this year are suddenly displaying "no image" when I look at my GR Reading Challenge page. I'm pretty sure there were images before! One of them is The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. I'm pretty sure I would have selected that I'd read the Kindle edition, but now it has me marked with the ebook edition - which has no image for the cover AND I can't even FIND a Kindle edition (in English).

I found the ASIN number for the kindle edition (B0BJSGV831) but it appears to be the same number that the ebook edition has. Is this expected? Also, no ISBN for this.

Given this information, are you able to create a Kindle edition for this book? And if not, are you able to at least add the cover image to the ebook edition (same as the English hardcover)?

Thanks!
(and I'll make a separate post for the other one after I research it).

Hi again Ellie,

This is the second book I mentioned above. This time I read the Kindle edition, and it does still exist, it's just that the cover image is now missing. Can you please add it? Here are the details:

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage (Kindle in English)
ASIN number: B098TYRZTL
Cover image: same as English hardcover edition.

Thanks so much :)

Tracy, they should both have covers showing now. The changelogs for both have an official Goodreads account doing a delete and merge, so I guess they have an automated process doing a cleanup of editions, and it's breaking things as usual! Since the ASIN of Covenant belongs to the kindle edition, I've just corrected the format. It might take a while to update.

Ellie wrote: "Tracy, they should both have covers showing now. The changelogs for both have an official Goodreads account doing a delete and merge, so I guess they have an automated process doing a cleanup of ed..."

Thank you Ellie! They are both already showing on my end. SO appreciate :)

Hi, I need some help.

A few weeks/months ago I tried to add this
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

No librarian has noticed it yet and I need it to be verified for the summer challenge. Would you please be so kind and help me 🙏🌺

Nike wrote: "Hi, I need some help.

A few weeks/months ago I tried to add this
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Oops, I responded on the other thread thinking I was here. It's added now.

Ellie wrote: "Nike wrote: "Hi, I need some help.

A few weeks/months ago I tried to add this
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Oops, I respon..."

Thank you so much!

Hi , could someone add this Large Print version please of Behind the Scenes at the Museum
This is the same cover as the version of the book I read

but I can't find a large print version listed
( ISBN 10 is 1568953739, 437 pages )
(Edit: it doesn't list ISBN 13 , published 1996)
Link to amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Behind-Scene...
(Amazon has it listed as £85 , should I tell the library how much it's worth?😳)
Thanks

Could someone please correct the author on this edition of The Paper Palace? Thank you!

MissLemon wrote: "Hi , could someone add this Large Print version please of Behind the Scenes at the Museum
This is the same cover as the version of the book I read ..."

That ISBN is already being used for Behind the Scenes at the Museum which does state it's a large print edition on the librarian edit page, it's just not showing on the book details page. I uploaded a better quality cover image for it.

dalex wrote: "Could someone please correct the author on this edition of The Paper Palace? Thank you!"

Done, although it's not showing up on the book page yet...

Ellie wrote: "MissLemon wrote: "Hi , could someone add this Large Print version please of Behind the Scenes at the Museum
This is the same cover as the version of the book I read ..."

That ISBN i..."

Thank you !

Ellie wrote: "dalex wrote: "Could someone please correct the author on this edition of The Paper Palace? Thank you!"

Done, although it's not showing up on the book page yet..."

Thanks!

Could someone please correct the author on this edition of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen? Thank you.

Could you check the page for this edition of Driver's Ed. I just noticed this edition doesn't have Caroline B. Cooney listed as the author, but has "Driver's Ed edition: reprint" listed instead. So the book wrote itself apparently.

dalex wrote: "Could someone please correct the author on this edition of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen? Thank you."

What’s wrong with it? Seems ok to me.

Kendra wrote: "Could you check the page for this edition of Driver's Ed. I just noticed this edition doesn't have Caroline B. Cooney listed as the author, but has "Driver's Ed edition..."

Done!

Chrissy wrote: "dalex wrote: "Could someone please correct the author on this edition of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen? Thank you."

What’s wrong with it? Seems ok to me."

My bad, I thought I'd commented that I'd done it!

Chrissy wrote: "Kendra wrote: "Could you check the page for this edition of Driver's Ed. I just noticed this edition doesn't have Caroline B. Cooney listed as the author, but has "Driv..."

Thanks.

Hello. Is it possible to change the title of this book:
Misbegotten on the Goodreads page?

The book that's referred to on this page is the 2013 paperback edition, published by Orion. The page lists the book as being called Misbegotten and says it was originally published as The Misbegotten .

However, I am reading that edition and it definitely has 'The' in the title, as shown in the accompanying cover illustration.

Thanks.

LeahS wrote: "Hello. Is it possible to change the title of this book:
Misbegotten on the Goodreads page?

The book that's referred to on this page is the 2013 paperback edition, published by Or..."

Done!

Thank you!

Hi Ellie (and other Librarians if they hang out here).

Can you please add the Kindle version of Olivetti?

The ASIN is B0C39XSMWN. Please let me know if you need more info than that.

Thanks for being willing to take care of all these requests for the ret of us!

Tracy wrote: "Can you please add the Kindle version of Olivetti?

The ASIN is B0C39XSMWN. Please let me know if you need more info than ..."

The Amazon import has assigned that ASIN to the wrong edition and only Goodreads can correct it, but I've created a Kindle edition without the ASIN for now. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Thank you Ellie!

The author link for Victoria Schwab on her 2025 book leads to this page - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
- which lists her only works as the new book and a book by Susanna Clarke.

There is also this author page, which seems to be closer to correct -
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

dalex wrote: "The author link for Victoria Schwab on her 2025 book leads to this page - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
- which lists her only works as the new book and a book by Susanna..."

I've changed the editions that were V.E. to Victoria, so they should eventually link to the same page as her other books... Until more get imported as V.E. I wish Goodreads had a better way of identifying authors.

Ellie wrote: "dalex wrote: "The author link for Victoria Schwab on her 2025 book leads to this page - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
- which lists her only works as the new book and a b..."

Thanks Ellie!

Hello, and thanks in advance for your help...

Can these two records be combined?



You can see from the cover of Rocky Mountain Heat that it states (in tiny italicized print at the bottom): Previously published as All of Me

If you open the records of each book the descriptions are identical.

My local library's record shows under More Details,
General Note - "Originally published as All of Me by Forever in April 2009"

Ellie wrote: "dalex wrote: "The author link for Victoria Schwab on her 2025 book leads to this page - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
- which lists her only works as the new book and a b..."

But they shouldn't be the same page - The author uses one name for her YA books and one for her adult fiction. Goodreads keeps separate pages for authors when they write under more than one name.

Kendra wrote: "But they shouldn't be the same page - The author uses one name for her YA books and one for her adult fiction. Goodreads keeps separate pages for authors when they write under more than one name...."

It links to Victoria E. Schwab which has all her V.E. books and her middle grade as Victoria. It's her Goodreads author profile so I'm not going to mess with it.

Book Concierge wrote: "Hello, and thanks in advance for your help...

Can these two records be combined?

"

Done.

Just a note, I start a new job next week so I probably won't have time to do much more than simple edits/combines. It usually takes me a while to check I'm doing things right when the records are a mess (and turns out I'm still wrong some of the time). There are other librarians here though, so still worth asking, but if I skip your request to do something simple, that's why.

I am a librarian and can help out, if needed.

Good luck in your new job Ellie :)