metadata

dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: title
      dtype: string
    - name: description
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 920689032
      num_examples: 1021106
  download_size: 630135488
  dataset_size: 920689032
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
language:
  - en
size_categories:
  - 1M<n<10M

Goodreads Book Descriptions

A dataset of English book titles and descriptions from Goodreads.

The original dataset has 2.3 million books total with many more fields.

There may exist a small number of non-English books in this dataset.

Citations

Mengting Wan, Julian McAuley, "Item Recommendation on Monotonic Behavior Chains", in RecSys'18.
Mengting Wan, Rishabh Misra, Ndapa Nakashole, Julian McAuley, "Fine-Grained Spoiler Detection from Large-Scale Review Corpora", in ACL'19.