Read more.
Read better.
A reading log for people who actually finish books. Track what you read, get recommendations that match your taste, and talk to readers whose shelves you trust.
Free. No card. Your shelf is yours.
Every work in Open Library, deduped to the best edition. Find the obscure one.
Search by name even if you can't remember the title.
English, Spanish, Catalan. More coming as the catalog grows.
No onboarding survey. Just search a book you loved.
A library card
that reads you back.
Goodreads sells your taste back to publishers. Storygraph wants a quiz. The big bookstore wants you to scroll a feed.
awesomereads keeps it close to the page: a shelf, a search that surfaces the book you half-remember, and recommendations that come from genres and moods, not algorithms tuned for advertising.
If you read three books a year or sixty, this is the log you'll actually open.
Three steps. Then you read.
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Find the book
Full-text search across titles, authors, descriptions, and 40M+ works. Hunger Games or a 1928 botanical monograph, same place.
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Shelve it
Want to read, reading now, finished, did not finish. Four states. No taxonomy debate.
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Get the next one
Similarity from real reading patterns: genre, mood, the books people who loved yours also loved. Not "trending now".
"The right book finds you twice: once on the shelf, once when you're ready."
Search that knows what you meant.
Title, author, subtitle, description. PostgreSQL full-text with ranking that boosts the book most people probably wanted, not the one with the most editions.
A log, not a leaderboard.
Four states. Dates if you want them. No streak. No reading challenge guilting you in November. Your shelf belongs to you and stays put when you close the tab.
Recommendations from books, not banners.
When you open a book, we surface ten neighbors by genre and mood overlap, plus what readers who finished this one read next. No sponsored slots. Ever.
- The Starless Sea82% match
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell79%
- The Library at Mount Char71%
- House of Leaves68%
Four things we will not do.
- 1. Show ads. Not native, not sponsored, not affiliate.
- 2. Sell your reading history. Not aggregated, not anonymized.
- 3. Auto-generate a "book summary" with an LLM. Read it yourself.
- 4. Lock features behind a tier you didn't ask for.