Goodreads Book Tier List Maker: Rank and Share Your Reading
You have read dozens, maybe hundreds of books. If someone asks you to name your favorites, you can probably rattle off five or six. But if they ask you to rank everything you have read? That is a different question entirely.
Book tier lists have become one of the most popular ways readers share their taste online. You see them on Reddit, BookTok, Discord servers, and Instagram stories. The format is simple: S tier at the top for the best of the best, then A through F for everything else. It is opinionated, it is visual, and it starts arguments in the best possible way.
The problem is that making one has always been tedious. You either drag book covers around in a generic tier list maker that knows nothing about books, or you spend an hour screenshotting covers and arranging them manually. Neither is great.
That is why we built a Goodreads book tier list maker that connects directly to your reading history.
How the Goodreads book tier list maker works
The tool pulls your library from Goodreads using your profile URL. No login, no API key, no extension to install. You paste your Goodreads profile link, and it fetches your read shelf automatically.
Once your books load, you get two panels. On the left, six colored tier rows: S (red), A (orange), B (yellow), C (green), D (blue), and F (purple). On the right, a scrollable column of every book from your library with a search bar at the top.
You drag books from the right column into whichever tier you think they belong in. You can reorder books within a tier, move them between tiers, and search for specific titles when your library is large. When you are done, hit Export PNG and you get a clean image ready to share.
The whole process takes a few minutes instead of an hour.
Auto-rank: a starting point from your ratings
If you have been rating books on Goodreads, the auto-rank feature gives you a head start. It maps your star ratings to tiers:
- 5 stars go to S tier
- 4 stars go to A tier
- 3 stars go to B tier
- 2 stars go to C tier
- 1 star goes to D tier
- Unrated books stay in the unranked pool
This is not meant to be your final ranking. It is a starting point. Most readers auto-rank first, then spend a few minutes adjusting. That book you gave 4 stars three years ago might feel more like a B now. The one you rated 3 stars might have grown on you. The fun is in the fine-tuning.
Why tier lists work better than top-10 lists
A top-10 list forces you to make impossible choices. Is East of Eden your third or fourth favorite book? Does it matter? Probably not. But you still agonize over the order.
Tier lists solve this by grouping books into ranges. S tier is not a ranked list — it is a bucket. Everything in S tier is elite, and you do not have to decide which elite book is more elite than the others. This makes the ranking process faster, more honest, and more fun.
It also communicates more information. A top-10 list tells people your ten favorites. A tier list tells them what you loved, what you liked, what was fine, and what you regret reading. That full spectrum is what makes tier lists interesting to look at and argue about.
Sharing your book tier list
The export produces a PNG image with your tiers, book covers, and a clean dark background. It is sized for sharing on:
- Reddit — r/books, r/bookshelf, and genre-specific subreddits love tier lists
- Discord — drop it in your book club server and watch the debate unfold
- Instagram Stories — the vertical format works well as a multi-slide post
- Twitter/X — a single image that says more than a thread ever could
- BookTok — use it as a backdrop for your ranking video
No watermarks obscure your covers. The image is clean and readable at any size.
Tips for making a good book tier list
After watching hundreds of readers make tier lists, a few patterns stand out:
Be honest, not diplomatic. The temptation is to put everything in A and B tier because you feel bad ranking a beloved author's book in D. Resist this. A tier list with everything clustered in the middle is boring. The whole point is contrast.
S tier should be small. If half your books are in S tier, you do not have an S tier — you have a participation trophy shelf. Keep it to your genuine all-time favorites. Five to ten books at most, even if you have read hundreds.
F tier is not "bad books." It is "books that did the least for me." A book can be well-written and still land in F if it did not resonate with you personally. Your tier list is subjective, and that is the point.
Consider doing genre-specific lists. A tier list of every book you have ever read can be overwhelming. Try making one for a specific genre, a specific year, or a specific author. A "2025 reads" tier list or a "fantasy books" tier list is often more interesting than a list of everything.
From rankings to highlights
Ranking your books is satisfying. But the books in your S and A tiers probably contain ideas and passages worth revisiting. If you highlighted while reading, those highlights are sitting in your Kindle, Apple Books, or reading app right now.
Screvi helps you collect those highlights from across your reading sources, search them by meaning, and review them on a schedule so the best ideas from your best books actually stick. If you have ever finished a 5-star book and forgotten its key insights six months later, that is the problem Screvi solves.
Try the Goodreads Book Tier List Maker — it is free, works in your browser, and takes about three minutes.
Related: Browse your full Goodreads library with the Goodreads Bookshelf Viewer. Create shareable quote images with the Quote Image Generator.