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Excel + Google Sheets

Book Tracker

Your whole library in one place: what you've read, what you're reading, and the pile you swear you'll get to. Log a book (with the dates you start and finish it) and the dashboard, the charts, the shelves and your yearly challenge calculate themselves.

Color edition: Sage · same file, different look
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Instant download on Etsy: Excel files plus a link to your own Google Sheets copy.

What’s inside · 10 tabs

  • Welcome: A 3-step start guide
  • Reading Dashboard: Big KPI cards, donut and bar charts of your reading year
  • Setup: Currency, annual reading goal, pages per hour and tracking year; plus your own genres, formats, tags and status emojis
  • Dashboard: Total books, finished this year, currently reading, library value, books sold, average rating, status / source / rating / top-genre charts, books per month and your annual challenge bar, all calculated from Book Tracker
  • Book Tracker: The engine. Title, author, genre, format, source, cost, pages, a 1-5 star rating and the dates you start and finish each book; status and progress fill in on their own
  • Photo Gallery / 06 Gallery: Pick a title to see its data and dates, plus Owned / Borrowed / Waiting shelves that fill from Book Tracker
  • Library Toolkit: Your owned books A to Z with status emojis you choose, plus a top-authors chart
  • Reading Habits: A full-year grid (12 months, the real number of days in each). Tick the days you read and the streaks, the month-by-month summary, the 53-week chart and the goal donut calculate themselves
  • Calendar: Any month and year. The dates lay themselves out, you mark yes/no per day, and books to return come from Book Tracker

Features

  • Visual Reading Dashboard tab: big KPI cards (books finished, pages read, yearly goal, average rating, library size), donut and bar charts by genre, status, month and rating that update from your entries
  • Everything customisable in Setup: genres, formats, tags, even the status emojis
  • Annual reading challenge: books finished this year vs your goal, with a progress bar and an on-track / behind check
  • Library value, books sold, pages read and average rating calculated as you log
  • 200 book rows per tracker, ready to fill
  • Filled EXAMPLE workbook + clean BLANK workbook included
  • Excel AND Google Sheets versions, both in this listing
  • Every formula tested before publishing

You’ll need

  • Microsoft Excel 2016 or newer (desktop; Microsoft 365 not required) or a free Google account for the Google Sheets version.
  • Best on desktop or laptop.