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Discovery · Goodreads Listopia

Help your book
get discovered
on Goodreads.

Listopia is where a reader decides what to read next. It is the most durable visibility surface in publishing — earned once, browsed for years. We build that presence list by list, with real readers and no shortcuts.

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Zero purchased votes Named campaign director Placement guarantee
Hardcover books ascending like a staircase into warm golden light

Best literary mysteries of the decade

#42
#19
#7
#2

The mechanic

What Listopia
actually is.

Not advertising. A permanent, reader-built index of what to read next — and the only place in publishing where being present at the moment of decision is free, if you can earn it.

A list is a shelf

Readers build and vote on lists like “Best Slow-Burn Literary Mysteries”. Each one is a permanent, browsable shelf inside Goodreads.

Rank is discovery

Position is decided by reader votes. The top ten receives the overwhelming majority of clicks; below thirty, a book is effectively invisible.

It compounds

Unlike an ad, a placement does not stop when the budget does. A list earned this quarter still sends readers three years from now.

The path a reader takes

Finishes a book
Opens a list
Scans the top ten
Adds yours

Why it matters

The shelf never closes.

Advertising rents attention by the day. A list placement is owned, and it keeps working long after the campaign report is filed.

0M+
Goodreads members worldwide
0.0M
Reader-built Listopia lists
0%
Of clicks go to the top ten
0 days
Median time to top-ten placement

Where the clicks land

Reader attention on a Listopia list collapses almost entirely into the first screen. Everything below position thirty is, in practical terms, unpublished.

Positions 1–1071%
Positions 11–3022%
Positions 31+7%

The method

How PageRise works.

01

Book Evaluation

We read the book, mine every existing review and map the readers who already love titles like yours. Nothing is targeted on genre alone.

  • Full manuscript read
  • Review and comparable-title mining
  • Reader-persona map

02

Strategy Planning

Forty to eighty candidate lists are scored on traffic, turnover and how contested the top ten is. We attack only what is winnable this quarter.

  • Opportunity-scored list map
  • Shelf and metadata positioning
  • Quarterly placement targets

03

List Placement

Real readers, matched to the book's themes, receive copies and vote because they finished it. No bots, no purchased votes — Goodreads catches those.

  • Reader-network outreach
  • Newsletter placements
  • Community and club seeding

04

Performance Tracking

Weekly position history for every targeted list in your dashboard, plus maintenance voting so hard-won positions do not quietly slide back.

  • Live rank dashboard
  • Weekly position history
  • Hold and maintenance strategy

Real placement stories

Every result here is
publicly verifiable.

Four completed campaigns, each with a live Goodreads list you can open right now and check the position yourself.

Her Play: Make Your Own Luck by Alexandra Hartwell
Business MemoirCompletedVerified campaign

Her Play: Make Your Own Luck

Alexandra Hartwell

A business memoir competing against decades of household-name titles. We mapped the readers who finish founder memoirs and move straight to the next one, then earned votes from that exact audience over eleven weeks.

Start
#214
Peak
#0
Verified votes
0
Duration
11 weeks

Week 1 — outside the visible band

  • 212The Hard Thing About Hard Things
  • 213Grinding It Out
  • 214Her Play: Make Your Own Luck
  • 215Onward

Week 11 — top ten, holding

  • 4Shoe Dog
  • 5Becoming
  • 6Her Play: Make Your Own Luck
  • 7Bad Blood
View live Goodreads listView campaign results
Ripped Apart: Quantum Twins Adventures On Two Worlds by L. J. Orion
Science Fiction & FantasyCompletedVerified campaign

Ripped Apart: Quantum Twins Adventures On Two Worlds

L. J. Orion

A Kindle Unlimited series with strong reviews and no shelf presence. The campaign concentrated on the single list where KU fantasy readers choose their next download, then held the position with maintenance voting.

Start
#96
Peak
#0
Verified votes
0
Duration
9 weeks

Week 1 — page four of the list

  • 94The Wandering Inn
  • 95Cradle: Unsouled
  • 96Ripped Apart: Quantum Twins
  • 97Dungeon Crawler Carl

Week 9 — third overall

  • 1Cradle: Unsouled
  • 2Dungeon Crawler Carl
  • 3Ripped Apart: Quantum Twins
  • 4He Who Fights with Monsters
View live Goodreads listView campaign results
Your Pro Israel Bookshelf: 100 Titles Reviewed by Daniel Eliav
Literary NonfictionCompletedVerified campaign

Your Pro Israel Bookshelf: 100 Titles Reviewed

Daniel Eliav

A reference title with a serious readership and no discovery surface. We positioned it beside the literary and historical titles its readers already shelve, then built votes through review communities and newsletters.

Start
#341
Peak
#0
Verified votes
0
Duration
14 weeks

Week 1 — effectively invisible

  • 339The Invention of Wings
  • 340A Gentleman in Moscow
  • 341Your Pro Israel Bookshelf
  • 342The Dutch House

Week 14 — first page

  • 10The Night Watchman
  • 11All the Light We Cannot See
  • 12Your Pro Israel Bookshelf
  • 13The Underground Railroad
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Existential Ruminations by Adrian Vale
PhilosophyCompletedVerified campaign

Existential Ruminations

Adrian Vale

A philosophy collection with no genre home. Rather than fight a crowded category, we targeted the broad recommendation lists where curious readers browse without a genre in mind — and stayed there.

Start
#158
Peak
#0
Verified votes
0
Duration
10 weeks

Week 1 — buried mid-list

  • 156Meditations
  • 157The Myth of Sisyphus
  • 158Existential Ruminations
  • 159Man's Search for Meaning

Week 10 — top ten

  • 6Sapiens
  • 7Meditations
  • 8Existential Ruminations
  • 9The Alchemist
View live Goodreads listView campaign results

Every placement shown above can be independently verified on Goodreads through the live list links provided.

Packages

Three ways to begin.

Fixed scope, named director, no retainer. Every package includes the placement guarantee.

Ascent

$1,450

per title

One book that needs to be found.

  • 6 targeted Listopia lists
  • Opportunity-scored list map
  • Shelf & metadata positioning
  • Monthly rank reporting
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Most chosen

Signature

$2,600

per title

Our complete discovery campaign.

  • 14 targeted Listopia lists
  • Reader-network outreach programme
  • Review velocity acceleration
  • Weekly live rank dashboard
  • 12-week hold strategy
  • Dedicated campaign director
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Estate

Bespoke

per author

A full catalogue, worked as one.

  • Series-wide list architecture
  • Backlist read-through strategy
  • Book club distribution
  • Quarterly strategy sessions
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Questions

Answered
plainly.

Begin

Your book is already
good enough to be
on the list.

We take a limited number of titles each quarter so nothing waits in a queue. Tell us about the book and we will tell you honestly what is winnable.

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