2006
01
January
Goodreads was founded.
2007
01
December
Goodreads received funding estimated at $750,000 from angel investors.
2010
01
October
Goodreads opened its application programming interface, which enabled developers to access its ratings and titles.
2011
01
January
Goodreads acquired Discovereads.
2012
01
October
Goodreads announced it had 11 million members, 395 million books cataloged, and over 20,000 book clubs.
2012
01
November
Goodreads surpassed 12 million members.
2013
01
May
Goodreads was acquired by Amazon.
2013
01
September
Goodreads announced that, without warning, reviews that threatened authors or mentioned authors' behavior would be deleted.
2016
16
March
Amazon shut down Shelfari in favor of Goodreads.
Goodreads had over 50 million user reviews.