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Book Review Groups on Social Media

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Book review groupsIn our book How to Get Honest Reviews, we talk about using social media to get book reviews. In this post, I wanted to share just a few of the book review groups on social media that we have found where you can get book reviews.

I have used some of these groups myself, and others we have found by searching for active book review groups.

Tips for Joining Book Review Groups

Before we dive in, there are a couple of things we need to cover.

1.) Follow the Rules

No matter what group you are part of, always make sure you know the rules of the group.

Soliciting book reviews in a group where it is against the rules can get you kicked out of the group, and make you look bad as an author.

Take the time to find and read the rules and then make sure you follow them.

2.) Check for Life

Social media groups are a dime a dozen. New groups pop up all the time. Old groups flourish or die out. Sometimes management changes hands. The truth is, you never know from week-to-week what will happen online.

Before posting in any online book review group, we recommend checking for signs of life.

And not just any life.

You’ll want to check the group to see if it has active reader engagement.

If the same authors are posting about their books repeatedly, but no readers are responding, your efforts are probably better spent elsewhere.

When looking at book review groups, you want to find groups that have readers who are responding to authors, posting about books, and actively engaged in the conversation. And then you want to join the conversation, not just post and run. Remember that good groups exist because of community.

With that knowledge tucked under your cap, go ahead and check out these book review groups.

10+ Book Review Groups

6 Facebook Book Review Groups

We have listed seven Facebook groups for you below:

With the right search terms, you can find even more review groups on Facebook. Some are niche-specific, others are not, and they all have their own list of rules. As we mentioned previously, make sure you read through the requirements for each group before posting.

5 Goodreads Book Review Groups

Check out these Goodreads book review groups:

These lists could go on and on and on, but you now have plenty of resources to get you started in the right direction. Goodreads has thousands of groups full of readers, and many are dedicated to book reviews. I have listed a handful for you here, but Goodreads is growing and new groups are created each day. With the thousands of groups already available, and the new groups being added, I could never endeavor to list them all.

Do You Have Any Favorite Book Review Groups?

Do you have any go-to book review groups? Have you tried the ones we mentioned above?

We’d love to hear from you. You can share your experience in the comments below.

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