Is www.goodreads.com safe?
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/120397.Novels_to_Improve_Vocabulary
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 4 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Goodreads book list page: long-established reading site with clean technical checks
This page is a reader-made book list on Goodreads, a site for discovering and tracking books. The domain is about 24 years old. No security engine flagged it, and the connection is properly encrypted. The site lists a company name, a San Francisco address, a phone number and an email on its own domain. Nothing in the evidence points to a scam mechanism, so the score falls in the Safe range.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 93/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 7 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe domain is about 24 years old.
- SupportsNo engine detections and no Safe Browsing warning.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
- SupportsThe site lists a company address, a phone number and an email on its own domain.
- SupportsContact email on the site's own domain (copyright@goodreads.com).
- SupportsPhone number listed ((415) 373-1500).
- SupportsPostal address visible on the page.
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
This page is a reader-made book list on Goodreads, a site for discovering and tracking books. The domain is about 24 years old. No security engine flagged it, and the connection is properly encrypted. The site lists a company name, a San Francisco address, a phone number and an email on its own domain. Nothing in the evidence points to a scam mechanism, so the score falls in the Safe range.
Technical checks and operator identity
Technically, the site came back clean. There were 0 malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines, no Safe Browsing warning, and a valid encrypted connection.
On the operator side, the site identifies Goodreads LLC at 188 Spear Street, San Francisco. It lists the phone number (415) 373-1500 and the email copyright@goodreads.com. Combined with a domain that is roughly 24 years old, this gives a strong picture of an established operator.
What visitors see and where links go
The page invites visitors to discover books and offers a "Join Goodreads" sign-up. It does not show a checkout or a payment request.
One link goes to Amazon.com's Conditions of Use. It is a cross-site reference to policy terms, and the evidence shows no sales or affiliate purpose behind it.
Why the score is 93
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Clean
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefenderadvice
- Dr.Websocial networks
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerentertainment
- Googlemedia_and_entertainment
- Sophosreference
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Goodreads
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Goodreads
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Novels to Improve Vocabulary (64 books)
- Meta description
64 books based on 8 votes: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey by Jane Aus...
Pages we read
- Main page/list/show/120397.Novels_to_Improve_VocabularyRead
- Terms/about/termsRead
- Support / FAQ/genres/self-helpRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Novels to Improve Vocabulary (64 books)
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The domain is about 24 years old.
- 02No engine detections and no Safe Browsing warning.
- 03The site lists a company address, a phone number and an email on its own domain.
Web research findings
Independent findings for www.goodreads.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for www.goodreads.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainwww.goodreads.com
- Redirects towww.goodreads.com
- Hosted byAmazon.com, Inc.
- Referencesm.media-amazon.com · s.gr-assets.com
Domain Timeline
- Dec 9, 2002Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 23 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 19, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
www.goodreads.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (copyright@goodreads.com).
- Phone number listed ((415) 373-1500).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.goodreads.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 19, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 19, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Goodreads book list page: long-established reading site with clean technical checks
This page is a reader-made book list on Goodreads, a site for discovering and tracking books. The domain is about 24 years old. No security engine flagged it, and the connection is properly encrypted. The site lists a company name, a San Francisco address, a phone number and an email on its own domain. Nothing in the evidence points to a scam mechanism, so the score falls in the Safe range.
09 · Community
Community
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