"Goodreads Yearly Challenge: This is one of the features that has made Goodreads uber-famous among book aficionados."

"In simpler terms, it helps you set a yearly challenge for yourself (on the lines of new year resolution) and you can track your progress over the months, and share it socially as well."

"a. There is a difference between the website and the app’s features and for some features like following a group, the user only can do them on the website."

"The search could be more intuitive, sometimes even after typing out the entire name of the book gives out incorrect results."

"Users like following their friends on Goodreads but hate the fact that the homepage only features and spams users’ on their friends’ activities."

"a. Similar usability and features across all devices — website and app to be mirrors of each other."

"1. Do Not Finish Bookshelf and Private Bookshelves"

"A separate shelf that could track the progress of how much the book has been read before being “abandoned” must be introduced with a feedback/review mechanism as to why the user/reader left the book in the middle."

"The ‘icing on the cake’ is the fact that the homepage only displays friends’ activities which makes your reading habits public, and not all users wish to do the same. Going through user reviews online, one could summarize this problem as “There’s no way to use Goodreads without your opinions becoming a public statement on the book, It encourages you to read a ton of books but also immediately cast judgment on them”."

"A rating between 1–5 with the only options as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are oversimplified categories and denote a lack of grey area which the users believe should be incorporated."

"Even though the idea to incorporate a social community of readers is something commendable, however, the purpose of Goodreads is to discover and explore books that one might not even be aware of."

"The recommendation system of Goodreads which should be excellent to encourage the idea of reading, is poor and useless to users across different personas."

"An easy solution is to integrate famous publications and internationally and nationally acknowledged and revered book clubs (like Reese’s Book Club, Poppy Lovers Book Club), organizations and public figures in a prominent position to improve the credibility of the app as well keep users happy."

"Adding the feature to create customized lists by users, which can be made public or private will help in the following ways — honing engagement of the user, enabling social sharing leading to an increase in social mentions, and thereby leading to more signups by users’ peers."

"This will also let authors engage better with their readers and bridge the gap between the both by giving an idea to the users what their favourite authors like to read written by other authors."