Reading Wrapped: How to Get a Spotify Wrapped for Your Books

Is There a Spotify Wrapped for Books?

Not one, but several. Spotify can make Wrapped because it already knows everything you played. Your reading only exists where you log it, so your reading wrapped comes from whichever app holds your books: Goodreads, The StoryGraph, Fable or a smaller tracker. If you log in more than one, they'll disagree a little.

They all start from the same data, books with a finish date in the year, so the same rule applies everywhere: if a book has no finish date, it won't appear. Fix dates before your app's recap goes out. For Goodreads, our Reading Challenge guide shows how.

Goodreads: Year in Books

Goodreads' recap is Year in Books. The page is available all year (My Books → Your reading activity on the website, or the Reading Activity section in the app) and fills in as you log. The email, with a shareable image for each stat, goes out in late December to members with at least three books on their Read shelf dated that year. Last year's was announced on December 6 and was live by December 23.

It shows your books and pages, your shortest and longest book, average book length, your average rating, and the most and least popular books you read. Goodreads counts books on your Read and Did Not Finish shelves with a date in the year. To share it to social media, your Goodreads profile has to be public.

What it leaves out: it's one year at a time, with no pace, no comparison with last year and no breakdown by month or format. Our free Goodreads Wrapped tool fills those gaps from your Goodreads export: every year side by side, your pace and busiest month, print versus ebook versus audiobook, how your ratings compare with the Goodreads average, and a share image plus up to five story-sized cards, none of which need a public profile. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded.

The StoryGraph: Reading Wrap-Up

The StoryGraph's Reading Wrap-Up is a page for each year, free for every member, with graphics you can download and share. It's the most detailed of the big three: books and pages, books and pages by month, your genres, a mood map, your most-read authors, your longest and shortest books, your rating breakdown, and new authors, series, rereads and DNFs.

StoryGraph Plus ($49.99 a year) adds wrap-up graphics for any date range, so you can make one for a quarter or a summer as well as the year, plus year-against-year comparison charts.

Fable: Reading Wrap

Fable's Reading Wrap is the closest to Spotify's in tone: a run of shareable cards with a hot take (a book you rated well below other Fable readers), a hyped book you read, and the genres where you're in the top 0.1% or top 5% of readers, followed by a summary of your year. Fable Plus, its paid tier, adds deeper reading data.

Good for: readers who want something fun to post more than a full set of statistics.

Other Apps With a Year-End Recap

Several smaller trackers make one too. Hardcover has a yearly recap, Bookmory has an annual rewind, and Parch makes monthly and yearly recap cards. Our guide to the best Goodreads alternatives compares them on everything else.

Parch's annual recap comes in five designs, each built from the books you finished. Book Quilt stitches your covers into a quilt. Year Collage pins them up like photos, with the date you finished each one. The Deck deals them out as a hand of cards. Year's Sky scatters them across a night sky. Pulse skips the covers and leads with one big number from your year, such as your pages or the nights you read. The four cover designs unlock once you've finished five books in the year, and their layouts change with how many you read, so a nine-book year and a fifty-book year each get a quilt that fits.

Because Parch logs reading sessions as well as finished books, print and audio alike, the recap knows more than a finish list does. And since it imports your Goodreads library, finish dates included, your first Parch year doesn't start empty.

Make Your Own Reading Wrapped

From Goodreads, in a minute: export your library (My Books → Import and Export → Export Library on the website; our export guide covers phones) and drop the file into Goodreads Wrapped. You get the recap now instead of waiting for December, for any year you've logged.

From a spreadsheet: our free reading log spreadsheet has a Year in Review sheet that counts books, pages, average rating, finish rate and books by month as you fill it in.

On paper: the year-at-a-glance page in our free 2027 journal kit is a reading wrapped you fill in as you go, one square a day.

The Stats Worth Looking At

Book count is the headline, but it's the least interesting number. A few that say more about your year: your busiest and quietest months (when does reading actually happen?), your pace (days per book, and whether it changed), your longest book (often the one you're proudest of), how your ratings compare with everyone else's (are you a generous rater or a hard one?), and your format mix (how much of your reading was listening).

Then use them. A quiet March and a big August says more about when to plan your reading than any goal. Our 2027 reading goal planner turns what you learn into a realistic number for next year, and Goodreads Wrapped hands your total straight to it.