29 October 2026 · Book Assembly Team · 5 min read
Discover started as a way to see what other readers here make of a book. It's turned into a decent place to find your next one, which raised an obvious question: once you've found it, how do you get it onto your shelves? This update answers that, and fills Discover with a lot more to find.
Every community book page (the one you reach from Discover, a genre, an author, a series or a list) now has two buttons:
Add to my library. Opens the add page with the book's details already filled in, so you just choose your format and lists and save.
Add to wishlist. Saves it in one tap.
If the book is already in your library, the page says so and takes you to your copy instead. If you're not signed in, you can sign in and come straight back to the book.
It works the other way too. A book in your library now links to its community page when it's on Discover, so you can see what other readers think of it. Where enough readers have it, the link shows how many, their average rating and how many reviews there are.
Award lists arrived on Discover in August, starting with the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy awards, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Edgar Award, alongside the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. There are now seventeen:
Every winning book has its own page, nearly all with a short description, even books no one here has added yet. Each list shows the year beside every winner, newest first, with a tap to switch to oldest first. On the International Booker list each book also credits its translator, since the prize is shared between author and translator.
This year's winners are added as they're announced. The Hugo went to The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow, the Nebula to The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, and the World Fantasy Award to Once Was Willem by M. R. Carey. The Booker and the Baillie Gifford are both announced in November.
Lists are easier to get around as well. You can search within a list by title or author, switch between a cover grid and a detailed view with a short description of each book, and filter the lists page to Awards, Best of or Staff picks. A book's community page shows the curated lists it's on under In These Lists, so you can jump from a book to the prizes it won.
The Discover page now shows four lists to a row and always fills two rows. Award lists take a turn at the front in the month their new winner is announced: the Booker and the Baillie Gifford in November, the Hugo and the Clarke in August, and so on. The rest of the space goes to featured lists, lists from the community, and others picked at random, so there's usually something you haven't seen.
The series on Discover are now a random selection too, rather than always the first few alphabetically.
A shelf of new series pages, many of them for books plenty of you already own:
The Middle-earth collection has grown from nine books to twenty-four. It now includes the twelve volumes of Christopher Tolkien's The History of Middle-earth, which has its own series page, and a new chronological order that runs from The Silmarillion through the Ages to The Lord of the Rings.
Existing series are up to date too: Percy Jackson's senior year, Nico di Angelo's books in the Riordanverse, The Fires of December in the Cosmere, and Iron Gold, Dark Age and Light Bringer in Red Rising. The author's name on a series page now links to their author page.
A lot of quieter work has gone into the details behind all this:
Fixed: books added to Discover through award lists and series, over 350 of them, were missing from their author's page. The Fires of December was missing from Brandon Sanderson's, for one. They're all there now.
