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Goodreads MCP MCP Server

Read-only MCP server for Goodreads (no API required): search, books, shelves, ratings

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

At a glance

Source code: Open repository

GitHub popularity: 0 stars on danathar/goodreads-mcp, recorded 2026-09-27.

Status

Pod has not dialled Goodreads MCP yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Connect

Published as goodreads-mcp-ai on pypi. Runs locally.

Reviewed GitHub reports

20 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

Most discussed

[strategist] Distribute goodreads-mcp on PyPI for uvx/pip install and MCP registry listing

Strategic Finding

Type: adoption-blocker Horizon: near-term

goodreads-mcp is only distributed as a GitHub-hosted .mcpb bundle (see .github/workflows/release.yml) or via manual git clone + pip install -e .. pyproject.toml (hatchling build backend, [project.scripts] goodreads-mcp) is already packaging-ready but nothing publishes the built wheel/sdist to PyPI.

Rationale

The MCP ecosystem's dominant install pattern is uvx <package> (or an entry in a client's server…

Read the thread · 2026-09-24 · closed · external user · 4 comments

Most recent

The MCP handshake reports the mcp SDK's version as the server version

In the MCP initialize response, serverInfo.version should be this server's version. It is the installed mcp SDK's version instead. server.py:114 creates OffLoopFastMCP("goodreads", ...) without a version, and the SDK then falls back to importlib.metadata.version("mcp"). A host log that shows goodreads 1.30.0 can't be matched to a release, and the number changes whenever the mcp dependency moves.

Checked at main b6f0e75 and on the published 2026.9.2 package.

Input initialize…

Read the thread · 2026-09-27 · closed · 0 comments

See all 20 reviewed GitHub reports.

Firsthand observations

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For agents

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Search MCPs

Call find_mcp to find Goodreads MCP, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

{
  "query": "Goodreads MCP",
  "limit": 5
}

Use the returned canonical ID with inspect_mcp to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Goodreads MCP' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'

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