How to Change Your Subscribed Genres on Goodreads

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Open up and log in to the Goodreads website in your web browser.

   You must be logged in to change these settings.
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   Step 2: Hover over your profile icon and select "My Favorite Genres".

   , With 40 genres in the list, there's no telling what genres you're subscribed to.
   
   For people who have no friends on Goodreads yet, the genres of recommended books will be all genres of books that you are subscribed to see.
   
   If you like several of the genres, select whatever genres seem to appeal to you.
   
   For those with a few Goodreads friends, you'll see your subscribed genre options with the "Recommended" label above the listing in your Goodreads home page-logged in news feed along with your friends' actions and status updates, and whatever else the feed can give you. , Selected genres appear to be highlighted in blue and are check-marked, and unselected genres appear to be greyish-yellow and not check-marked. , You have to have at least one subscribed genre set at all times.
   
   If you don't see your favorite genre in the list, click the "Don’t see your favorite genres here?" link and type in the genre, pressing Enter, at the very end. ,, You'll see the success message at the top of your Updates feed on the Goodreads home page.
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   Step 3: Look at what genres you have selected already.

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   Step 4: Deselect any genres you no longer want to see.

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   Step 5: Click the checkbox to the genres you'd like to add.

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   Step 6: Click the "Continue" button.

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   Step 7: Wait for the confirmation page to come back up.

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