Novelist
Easily organize and display your portfolio of books.
5(9 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 months agoAs of April 2026, Novelist is a WordPress books plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 30K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Downloads are up 25% this week. Top alternative: MyBookTable Bookstore by Stormhill Media.
5/59 reviews
1.0K+active installs
30K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Novelist helps authors easily organize and display their portfolio of books.
Features:
- All books are stored in their own “Books” area.
- Easy form for filling out book information.
- All book information is automatically formatted for you.
- Customizable templates.
- Easily create an archive of all your books.
- Developer-friendly.
Available Book Info Fields:
- Title
- Book Cover
- Series (name and number)
- Contributors
- Publisher
- Release Date
- Genres
- Pages
- Synopsis
- Goodreads Link
- Purchase Links (configure your own list of retail sites)
- ISBN13
- ASIN
- Excerpt
- Extra Text
Documentation
Extensive documentation is available at novelistplugin.com/docs
Screenshots
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
perfect plugin for me
by chriscoxwrites·2 years ago
I love this plugin. As an author, I’ve tried so many of them to try to add my books easily to my website. This one is ‘the one’. simple to use and easy to keep updated!
Amazing support and plugin
by Tahiel·5 years ago
Amazing plugin! It was the first I used of it’s kind and it was a real help for easily creating my author website. Support is super fast too!
great plugin!
by Nate Hoffelder·7 years ago
I don’t know why more people aren’t using it!
Nice
by vitaut89·8 years ago
Good plugin, thank
Excellent support
by bunnylumpkins·8 years ago
The support for this theme is fantastic, a great building block for creating book centered sites.
Download Trends
Today: 7Yesterday: 11This week: 81Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.3
81.1%
v1.2
12.0%
v1.1
6.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.3.0 – 2 August 2025
- Requires PHP 7.4+
- New: CSV book importer in Books > Tools
Contributors
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