Category: Books

I recently put together a Python script to sync my reading history between Book Tracker and Goodreads.

I use Book Tracker as my primary reading tracker. It’s a great app for cataloging books and tracking progress. But I also like to keep my Goodreads profile up to date. Books I read on my Kindle automatically show up in Goodreads, but audiobooks I listen to through Libby don’t. Since Goodreads doesn’t have a public API, the only way to sync is through CSV exports.

This script compares exports from both apps, figures out which books are missing from each, and generates properly formatted import files. It handles the tricky parts like matching different editions of the same book (which have different ISBNs) and normalizing titles that vary between platforms.

You can check out the code here:

👉 https://github.com/dougdiego/goodreads-book-tracker-sync

Setup and usage instructions are in the README.

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• The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman
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• The Singularity Is Nearer, Ray Kurzweil
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• Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Here is a list of book that I read in 2024

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
• All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• All Souls Lost, Dan Moren
• Atomic Habits, James Clear
• Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• The Book of Charlie, David Von Drehle
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
• Co-Intelligence, Ethan Mollick
• Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow
• Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell
• Eruption, Michael Crichton, James Patterson
• James, Percival Everett
• All Systems Red, Martha Wells
• Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
• Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
• A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
• Arch-Conspirator, Veronica Roth
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• Network Effect, Martha Wells
• System Collapse, Martha Wells
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• The Creative Act, Rick Rubin
• Red Rising, Pierce Brown
• Golden Son, Pierce Brown
• Red Seas Under Red Skies, Scott Lynch
• AI 2041, Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan
• Morning Star, Pierce Brown
• Iron Gold, Pierce Brown
• Lucky, Marissa Stapley
• The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen

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• The Worlds I See, Fei-Fei Li
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• The Peripheral, William Gibson
• Hidden Potential, Adam Grant
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• Shift, Hugh Howey
• Wool, Hugh Howey
• Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
• American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition, Neil Gaiman
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