Sadly, FictFact closed its doors a few months ago and it’s left a bit if a hole in how a lot of us track our series. FictFact offered a streamlined and straightforward way to track series that no one else can really live up to. The My Next Book feature was especially handy as well as the Release Calendar. So where do we go now that FictFact is gone?
📝 Goodreads
The most obvious answer is probably Goodreads and they do a great job at tracking but not so much in tracking series. They do have an option to view all books in a series so you know which book is your next read. You could create a shelf in your My Books section for each series you want to track.
📝 LibraryThing
LibraryThing is the next best tracker but again it doesn’t offer a streamlined way to view your series. It’s only really good for tracking your library and keeping lots of details about individual books.
📝 BookLikes
BookLikes is another site you can use to track your reading but it is designed more as a blogging site rather than for tracking. It is possible to track your books and create shelves for them but the main focus of the site to blogging and the social aspects of an online book site.
📝 Google Books
With Google Books you can track what you’ve read, add them to shelves and add reviews. It’s a bit like a watered down version of Goodreads but it’s only good for tracking your books as individuals not as series.
📝 TinyCat
TinyCat is an online library you can create from your LibraryThing account. It doesn’t really offer any real way of tracking your reading. You can use the tags and categories from your LibraryThing account to create collections and an attractive virtual library. I use it mostly as a way to browse my books based on tags when I’m deciding what to read next. You need to create your TinyCat library through your LibraryThing account.
📝 Litsy
Litsy is an app very similar to Instagram but it allows you to tag books in your posts and add a reading status. You can track your reading in terms of Want to Read, Currently Reading and Read with a thumbs down or up rating system. It’s very basic in terms of tracking and is more about sharing visual reading updates.
📝 Apps
If none of the above work for you there are many apps for your phone or tablet that might do what you need. In my experience the ones I’ve used are mostly only good for tracking individual books and not in terms of series.
📝 Spreadsheets
At the moment it seems like there isn’t really a suitable alternative to FictFact. The easiest option may be to create your own spreadsheet but this will probably be time consuming depending on how many series you need to track and you will have to keep an eye out yourself for new releases to add. You could use Excel or Google Sheets to do this but if you’re unfamiliar with how to use spreadsheets you may find it complicated at first. I’m sure there are a few tutorials on YouTube to help you out.
Do you know of another site for tracking books and series?
One of my favourite features is the column settings on the shelves. You can have different settings for each shelf containing whatever information you want such as read count, dates, number of pages, etc.
