Meta-Data of Books

If you are using our datasets, please cite the following papers:

Mengting Wan, Julian McAuley, "Item Recommendation on Monotonic Behavior Chains", in RecSys'18. [bibtex]
Mengting Wan, Rishabh Misra, Ndapa Nakashole, Julian McAuley, "Fine-Grained Spoiler Detection from Large-Scale Review Corpora", in ACL'19. [bibtex]

Detailed book graph

~2gb, about 2.3m books
Download link
- goodreads_books.json.gz
Example:

{'isbn': '', 'text_reviews_count': '7', 'series': ['189911'], 'country_code': 'US', 'language_code': 'eng', # top user-generated shelves for a book, used to define genres by goodreads 'popular_shelves': [{'count': '58', 'name': 'to-read'}, {'count': '15', 'name': 'fantasy'}, {'count': '6', 'name': 'fiction'}, {'count': '5', 'name': 'owned'}, ...], 'asin': 'B00071IKUY', 'is_ebook': 'false', 'average_rating': '4.03', 'kindle_asin': '', # a list of books that users who like the current book also like 'similar_books': ['19997', '828466', '1569323', '425389', '1176674', '262740', '3743837', '880461', '2292726', '1883810', '1808197', '625150', '1988046', '390170', '2620131', '383106', '1597281'], 'description': 'Omnibus book club edition containing the Ladies of Madrigyn and the Witches of Wenshar.', 'format': 'Hardcover', 'link': 'https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7327624-the-unschooled-wizard', 'authors': [{'author_id': '10333', 'role': ''}], 'publisher': 'Nelson Doubleday, Inc.', 'num_pages': '600', 'publication_day': '', 'isbn13': '', 'publication_month': '', 'edition_information': 'Book Club Edition', 'publication_year': '1987', 'url': 'https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7327624-the-unschooled-wizard', 'image_url': 'https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1304100136m/7327624.jpg', 'book_id': '7327624', 'ratings_count': '140', 'work_id': '8948723', 'title': 'The Unschooled Wizard (Sun Wolf and Starhawk, #1-2)', 'title_without_series': 'The Unschooled Wizard (Sun Wolf and Starhawk, #1-2)'}

Detailed information of authors

Download link:
- goodreads_book_authors.json.gz
Example:

{'average_rating': '3.98', 'author_id': '604031', 'text_reviews_count': '7', 'name': 'Ronald J. Fields', 'ratings_count': '49'} .

Detailed information of works

This is the abstract version of a book regardless any particular editions
Download link:
- goodreads_book_works.json.gz
Example:

{'books_count': '1', 'reviews_count': '6', 'original_publication_month': '8', 'default_description_language_code': '', 'text_reviews_count': '1', 'best_book_id': '5333265', 'original_publication_year': '1984', 'original_title': 'W. C. Fields: A Life on Film', 'rating_dist': '5:1|4:1|3:1|2:0|1:0|total:3', 'default_chaptering_book_id': '', 'original_publication_day': '', 'original_language_id': '', 'ratings_count': '3', 'media_type': 'book', 'ratings_sum': '12', 'work_id': '5400751'}

Detailed information of book series

Download link:
- goodreads_book_series.json.gz
  - Note: Unfortunately, the series id included here cannot be used for URL hack (We will see if things can be fixed in the future)
Example:

{'numbered': 'true', 'note': '', 'description': 'Plot-wise, "Crowner\'s Crusade" is a prequel to the series, but #15 in publication order.', 'title': 'Crowner John Mystery', 'series_works_count': '15', 'series_id': '169353', 'primary_work_count': '15'}

Extracted fuzzy book genres:

This a very fuzzy version of book genres. These tags are extracted from users' popular shelves by a simple keyword matching process.
Download link:
- gooreads_book_genres_initial.json.gz
Example:

{'book_id': '7327624', 'genres': {'fantasy, paranormal': 31, 'fiction': 8, 'mystery, thriller, crime': 1, 'poetry': 1}}