Help > Recommendations
1) Rate more books. The more you rate, the better the results!
2) Update your favorite genres.
3) Categorize your books by creating shelves such as science fiction or history. We recommend based on each shelf you create!
4) Click "Not interested" for recommendations that you don't like. We'll be less likely to show you similar books in the future.
You can add a book to your "read" shelf just by rating the book. Hover over the stars underneath "want to read" and click when the desired number of stars are highlighted. This will automatically save your rating and add the book to your "read" shelf.
On the recommendations page, you can actually choose between "covers" view (with cover images) and "list" view (with titles and authors). Here's how to switch over to list view:
1) Navigate to the main recommendations page.
2) Just below the instructions at the top of the page, click view: list. (see attached screenshot).
The recommendations you see in your updates feed are based on our recommendations engine. You’ll see two types of recommendations in the updates feed: based on books you recently shelved, and books from your recommendations page. Our hope is that these recommendations will help you discover more books you’ll enjoy!
If you don’t want to see recommendations in your updates feed:
- Navigate to the home page, and make sure that you're looking at the "Updates" tab.
- On the right-hand side of the page (next to the "Currently Reading" box), you'll see a gear icon. Click that to open your updates preferences.
- A menu should drop down. Uncheck the box next to "Recommendations from Goodreads."
- Click "Apply Filters" on the bottom.
Not at the moment. Any book you rate is automatically added to your "read" shelf.
Yes, you can.
1) Click the "x people liked it" link at the bottom right of the quote you'd like to recommend.
2) In the "Friends Who Like This Quote" bar, select "recommend to friends."
3) You will then be directed to a page where you can select the friends you'd like to share the quote with. Follow the instructions and send!
1) Click on "recommendations" in the header.
2) Scroll down and click "recommendations from users" under “Community Recommendations” on the right side of the page.
3) Under the "My Requests" section, click "x recommendations”.
4) Directly below "you want to read...", click the small "close" link.
