booktier

Tier lists where every cover is a link.

Rank your books, then publish a page. Each cover links to wherever the book actually lives — Amazon, Royal Road, Goodreads, your own review — and hovering or tabbing to one shows the title, the author, and whatever else you tracked. Not a screenshot of a ranking.

Open the editor Source on GitHub

Free, MIT-licensed, runs entirely in your browser. No account, nothing uploaded.

This is the output

A real exported board, not a picture of one. Hover a cover — or press Tab to walk them with the keyboard — and click through to the book.

S+
The Primal HunterZogarthorigin Royal RoadSystem apocalypse, heavy stat focus.Beware of ChickenCasualfarmerorigin Royal RoadCultivation, but the farm is the point.
S
Mother of Learningnobody103origin Royal RoadTime loop, tightly plotted.Super SupportiveSleycaorigin Royal Road
A
Defiance of the FallTheFirstDefierorigin Royal RoadAzarinth HealerRhaegarorigin Royal Road
B
He Who Fights with MonstersShirtaloonorigin Royal Road

What you get

Covers that do something

Every cover is a real link with a real hover card, and one that fails to load shows the book's title rather than an empty box. Keyboard users get the card on focus, not just on mouse hover — which is more than most tier list tools manage.

Five ways out

A standalone HTML page you host anywhere, a JSON file you own, a PNG for Reddit or Discord, Reddit markdown where every title stays a link, and a share link that opens the list as a finished reading page for whoever you send it to. The page and the JSON round-trip.

Covers saved once

Cover images are fetched once and kept locally, so lists keep working after a retailer rotates its image URLs — and so image export works at all.

Any book, any link

No catalog to be in. If you can point at a cover and a URL, you can rank it — including a serial with no ISBN, a Patreon chapter, or something you wrote.

Nothing leaves the browser

No account, no server, no analytics, no third-party scripts. Your lists live in your browser and in the files you export — and a share link keeps the list after the #, which browsers never send to any server.

Fields you choose

Add whatever you track — hours read, volume count, where you dropped it — and it shows in the hover card. The format does not dictate what you care about.

How it works

  1. Add your books. One per line: title, author, link, cover URL. Paste a batch at once.
  2. Rank them. Drag covers between tiers, or move them from the keyboard.
  3. Save covers. One press stores every cover locally so the list stays put and image export works.
  4. Export or share. A page to host, a JSON file to keep, a numbered image and matching link list for Reddit, or a link that opens the list as a reading page for whoever you send it to.

Is this the right tool for you?

Use booktier if

  • You want the finished thing to be a page you own and host, not a post on someone's site.
  • Your links should go where you say — a specific chapter, a review, a store page.
  • You rank things no catalog has.
  • You would rather not make an account.

Use something else if

  • You want your list discovered by a community that is already there — LitRPGTools does linked covers with hover cards inside a LitRPG community, and that reach is worth more than owning the file.
  • You want a consensus ranking across many people's lists.
  • You want an image and nothing else — any tier list maker does that.

Run your own copy

booktier is static files — no build step, no runtime, no database. Clone it, put it behind any web server, done.

git clone https://github.com/elevatevt/booktier.git
cd booktier
npm run serve     # http://localhost:8777

The repository ships a hosting guide with response headers and per-host recipes, and a security document covering trust boundaries and the decisions worth making before you put a copy online. The Content-Security-Policy in that guide is enforced against a live browser by the test suite, not just recommended.