Welcome to the site roadmap, where we keep you updated on what has been accomplished so far at Book Notification, what ongoing work there is, what features we are currently working on, and what we have planned for the future.

Book Notification alpha launched on June 27th, 2022 then beta launched on January 1st, 2023 then officially on June 27th, 2023.

We are continually working on new features of the site, with our goal of making this the ultimate readers paradise.

ANYTHING we can do, big or small, to make your reading and website experience better, don’t hesitate to let us know. We are open to anything as we want this to be the perfect site for each and every one of you.

Last Updated: February 26th, 2026.

Continuous jobs that make up our day to day.

Auditing and Adding Authors: We currently still have a large backlog of authors which we are auditing and adding to the website. This takes up the majority of the work by the database team. Other websites have messy lists not organized into series, or books listed on an authors page by multiple people who happen to share the same name, or don’t notify you of alternate titles which books have. Our database team audits every author, getting the series perfect, checking the chronology, looking for alternate titles, verifying that the correct books are listed on each authors page. It is a lot of work but it’s our highest priority – providing the most accurate book lists online.

Content: Creating fun content for readers, and letting our staff’s creativity thrive! Whether it is videos on social media or blog content, we’ve got lots of book-related entertainment options for you.

Informative Content Enhancements: Our content team are hard at work adding informative content to all book series in the way of series descriptions. A big task with over 170,000 series on the site but will make it very helpful for readers when looking to start a new series. Also adding additional biographical data to authors, details of awards won by authors and more.

Author Genre Tags: As of October 2025, we are working on adding genre tags to all of the authors on Book Notification. This is a lengthy process and currently powers the Related Authors section of authors pages.

Here are the big features planned for 2026:

Mobile App: Don’t worry – we hear you. An app is the most requested feature on our list, and this is planned for 2026 (and already in the works).

“Tuesday” Newsletter Customization: Another highly requested feature is new additions to the Tuesday email; the ability to display book tags, hide books marked “Not Interested”, and highlight upcoming books you’ve marked “Want To Read”. All of this and more is planned for this year to make the weekly email truly your own.

Book Pages: We plan on launching individual book pages in 2026, providing comprehensive details about each book including synopsis, reviews, statistics, awards and more.

Statistics: If you are a fan of statistics and graphs then don’t worry – we plan on expanding our focus on statistics in 2026. Public statistics such as most followed authors per month, most-rated books, etc., as well as personalized graphs and charts based on your own reading data.

Book Giveaways: We currently do a monthly exclusive contest for the Page Turners Club featuring highly regarded and popular books; however, we are hoping to work with upcoming and new authors to give away copies of their books to all members of Book Notification.

Custom Dashboard: We want you to be able to make the Book Notification homepage your own! You will be able to customize it to suit your needs, displaying only the tools, features and links that matter to you. And if you’re old enough to remember the My Yahoo! era, we’ll have several features inspired by that level of personalization.

There is more planned. Those are just the headline items.

Just some of the many features and updates we have planned for down the road.

Social Network: Want to invite friends to Book Notification, and see what they’re reading and rating? We will eventually have all of that in place as we understand that many people still like to use Goodreads due to the social ability, and we hope to mimic that. Ability to create digital book clubs with friends etc as well. Basically a big social network (which you can opt-out of so don’t worry about that).

Dark Mode: A big job but in the works.

Recommendations: This won’t be soon, but we promise it will be worth the wait. Personalized book and series recommendations. Yes, there are various websites out there which already offer that functionality but we’ve never found one that we have felt does a great job. A lot of generic results. Our aim is to have the best recommendation engine ever made, to the point that you will soon be cursing us for introducing you to so many new books.

Add Custom Books To Your Library: We don’t list omnibus books as we have the books listed separately. We also don’t primarily list “how to” manuals or activity books or similar. However we will offer the option for you to add this sort of thing to your library if you are using your library as your personal collection.

Different Email Notifications: Currently, we send the one weekly book notification e-mail with all the updates. Eventually, we will offer the options of receiving notice the day before a book is released, the day it is released, and also when it is added to our database.

Genre Searching: Want to be able to search just sci-fi authors, series, or books? Yep, us too! We are currently working on filling up our database with genres and will then allow you to search by genre, and then filter the list by various methods. We aren’t just importing in basic genres from databases either; we have over 700 genres which we are currently assigning authors to, to provide the best results.

Games: Think Connections and Wordle, but book related.

Wishlists: The ability to create a list of books which you want and then share it with family/friends.

Audiobooks: We have a lot of cool ideas for audiobook readers such as detailed listings by the narrator, option to highlight books that have an audiobook version, separate reviews just for the audiobook, and more.

Anthologies: We have some cool ideas involving anthologies. Right now if someone has a story within an anthology, or are the editor of an anthology, then that anthology will be listed within their list of books. However we want to do so much more with this, such as specifying if they are the author, then also listing the actual title of the story they have written within that anthology. This is going to be a massive process and is very low priority as we never really get requests related to this – but just wanted everyone to know it’s on the list!

Below is a list of notable changes and features to the site. This only lists the big stuff, not the millions of little things we are doing every day!

July 1st, 2022: Alpha Launch with 9000 authors.
January 1st, 2023: Beta Launch with 11,000 authors.
January 7th, 2023: Personalized Book Calendar on Sidebar.
January 9th, 2023: 12,000 authors!
January 16th, 2023: Started the email newsletter with site updates.
January 23rd, 2023: Weekly book notifications begin.
February 12th, 2023: 13,000 authors!
February 21st, 2023: 14,000 authors!
February 27th, 2023: 15,000 authors!
March 1st, 2023: “My Library” section completed.
March 6th, 2023: Author list now vertical instead of horizontal.
March 13th, 2023: 16,000 authors!
March 14th, 2023: Multi-author series only displays current author (option to expand).
March 24th, 2023: 17,000 authors!
April 8th, 2023: Set dates when you read a book.
April 10th, 2023: 18,000 authors!
April 12th, 2023: Middle Initials database fix implemented.
April 14th, 2023: Launched the Awards section. Will add one per week.
April 23rd, 2023: 19,000 authors!
April 24th, 2023: Cleared the “New Author Requests” Backlog.
April 29th, 2023: Default bookstores added in settings.
April 30th, 2023: First non-Amazon option added (Bookshop.org) to purchase from. Will be adding many more to shopping options as time permits.
May 8th, 2023: 20,000 authors!
May 9th, 2023: Track date books read. Anthologies hidden by default.
May 16th, 2023: Table of contents for all author listings added.
May 20th, 2023: 21,000 authors!
May 25th, 2023: Can change display name & profile picture on settings page.
June 6th, 2023: User & Average Ratings now display on authors page.
June 7th, 2023: Complete overhaul of the F.A.Q..
June 14th, 2023: 22,000 authors!
June 23rd, 2023: 23,000 authors!
July 19th, 2023: 24,000 Authors!
July 29th, 2023: “Last Name, First Name” in search now brings up author.
July 30th, 2023: List of books you have read in 2023 now under the “Reading Challenges” tab.
July 31st, 2023: 25,000 Authors!
August 17th, 2023: 26,000 Authors!
August 20th, 2023: Started weekly “Books Releasing This Week” posts.
August 24th, 2023: 27,000 authors!
August 28th, 2023: Series and series # added to weekly book notification e-mails.
September 10th, 2023: Authors with same name – unique identifier in search added.
September 15th, 2023: 28,000 authors!
September 20th, 2023: Information pop-up if book only available on authors website or mailing list.
September 23rd, 2023: Calendar page update – displays as list as well.
September 27th, 2023: 29,000 authors!
September 30th, 2023: “Back To Top” function added on each page.
October 3rd, 2023: Revamp of road map – removed all completed items.
October 6th, 2023: Added the very exciting “What’s Next” Feature.
October 8th, 2023: UID implemented to differentiate authors with same or similar name.
October 10th, 2023: 30,000 authors!
October 13th, 2023: Big overhaul of navigational system for better UX.
October 15th, 2023: Ability for us to write a description of a book series added.
October 20th, 2023: 31,000 authors!
October 27th, 2023: “Book Search” added to author pages.
October 29th, 2023: Disable auto follow authors, disable book manage popup added to settings.
October 30th, 2023: 32,000 authors!
November 13th, 2023: “All Caught Up” added to What’s Next section. Publication dates also added.
November 14th, 2023: 33,000 authors!
December 2nd, 2023: 34,000 authors!
December 23rd, 2023: 35,000 authors!
December 24th, 2023: Author Insights section added to author pages.
January 2nd, 2024: Book tagging added.
January 8th, 2024: 36,000 authors!
January 21st, 2024: 37,000 authors!
January 27th, 2024: Added: Audiobook feature toggle, page count, audiobook hours count, time to read a book, date starting reading.
February 5th, 2024:38,000 authors!
February 18th, 2024: 39,000 authors!
February 24th, 2024: “Pick a Random Book To Read”, enhancements to author insights.
March 10th, 2024: 40,000 authors.
March 17th, 2024: Book Search Launched.
March 26th, 2024: 41,000 authors.
April 1st, 2024: Started Daily New Book Releases posts, which you can see on our Facebook, Twitter, and Subreddit.
April 11th, 2024: 42,000 authors.
April 18th, 2024: Started Booktalks.
April 27th, 2024: Author content enhancement and author book stats. Details in April Newsletter.
April 29th, 2024: 43,000 authors!
May 8th, 2024: 44,000 authors!
May 15th, 2024: 45,000 authors!
May 24th, 2024: 46,000 authors!
May 25th, 2024: User statistics added! (Phase 1)
June 2nd, 2024: 47,000 authors!
June 15th, 2024:. 48,000 authors!
June 22nd, 2024: “Still To Read” Data Added.
June 29th, 2024: 49,000 authors!
June 30th, 2024: “Quick Follow” added.
July 11th, 2024: 50,000 authors!
July 21st, 2024: 51,000 authors!
July 28th, 2024: ARC Review Filter added.
August 1st, 2024: 52,000 authors!
August 15th, 2024: 53,000 authors!
August 29th, 2024: 54,000 authors!
August 31st, 2024: Dealing with “The 1970 Problem”
September 5th. 2024: 55,000 authors!
September 12th, 2024: 56,000 authors!
September 29th, 2024: “Currently Reading” Added
October 1st, 2024: 57,000 authors!
October 5th, 2024: First Ask A Librarian launched.
October 18th, 2024: 58,000 authors!
October 26th, 2024: Ability to track re-reads.
October 30th, 2024: 59,000 authors!
November 12th, 2024: 60,000 authors! We’ll start only listing them here at the 5 or 0 landmarks.
November 30th. 2024: Users can export their data.
December 12th, 2024: Re-designed all hub pages such as /news/ and /blog/.
December 29th, 2024: Launched Reader’s Roulette and the Book Release Calendar.
January 13th, 2025: Launched the Book Notification Podcast.
January 15th, 2025: 65,000 authors!
January 18th, 2025: A large backend revamp began, which was wrapped up in March 2025.
March 2nd, 2025: 70,000 authors.
March 31st, 2025: “Select All” Feature added. Launched the Page Turners Club.
April 15th, 2025: Change e-mail & password in profile. Apple login. Tuesday newsletter update with customizations based on authors you follow.
May 6th, 2025: 75,000 authors.
May 7th, 2025: I Care About Books Podcast launched.
May 10th, 2025: Export new book releases to Apple, Google and other calendars.
May 20th, 2025: Custom Printing.
June 8th, 2025: Author notes.
June 13th, 2025: Weekly Picks begins.
June 26th, 2025: 80,000 authors.
June 29th, 2025: Series search added.
July 18th, 2025: Added ability to hide average rating.
July 25th, 2025: Celebrity Book Clubs hub added.
August 15th, 2025: 85,000 authors.
August 20th, 2025: Added ability to follow a series instead of author.
August 30th, 2025: Adaptation updates now added to Tuesday newsletter.
October 1st, 2025: Added new mobile calendar to personalized calendar.
October 4th, 2025: Book / Author Quotes hub added.
October 27th, 2025: Ability to print and export all data in “My Library”.
October 28th 2025: Currently Reading / Pause Status added.
October 29th, 2025: 90,000 authors.
November 25th, 2025: Thorough user guide created.
November 28th, 2025:: Added ability to follow book clubs.
December 12th, 2025: 95,000 authors.
January 28th, 2026: Progress bars to track your reading status.
February 27th, 2026: 100,000 authors.
March 1st, 2026: Calendar filters – hide not interested / read etc books.
April 1st, 2026: Added Author Progress Cards.
April 3rd, 2026:My Stats and to reading challenges.

Feature Requests:

We appreciate any and all feedback. Any suggestions, ideas, etc for the site or anything we can do to make your reading life easier which isn’t listed above? Let us know. You can e-mail hello@booknotification.com or fill in the contact form below.