# Babelio

Babelio is a French social cataloging website and a mobile app dedicated to literature. It is a social network for users to review books and generate personal library catalogs, which can be shared and commented on by other users.
It has been called the French equivalent of Goodreads.

## History

Babelio was launched in January 2007 by three bibliophiles: Guillaume Teisseire, Vassil Stefanov and Pierre Fremaux. It began as a social media website specializing in books. In France, Babelio was the first of its kind to be created. It is supported by publishers such as Éditions Albin Michel, Éditions du Seuil and Fayard. Many of the site's most active users receive copies of books in advance from various publishers and are invited to share their reviews. Users can participate in the "Masse critique" contest to win book copies.
In October 2018, Babelio had 650,000 users and was visited monthly by approximately 3.7 million internet users. By June 2020, Babelio had a community of 950,000 users. By June 2021, Babelio had a community of 1.1 million users.

## Features
### For the general public

For the books that are in their library, users have the ability to rate, write a review, extract quotes, create thematic lists, participate in games and create quizzes. Members also have a personalized home page that offers a news feed related to their literary tastes. Based on members' libraries and the ratings they have given to books, the site also offers users the opportunity to discover other user with similar literary tastes. Users also have the opportunity to converse through a group function, allowing them to send public messages. A thematic labeling system also allows users to navigate the database of books. Users thereby explore using keyword clouds, offering a collaborative and community form of classification.
Babelio offers excerpts from reviews and links to the vast majority of professional literary columns published in the general and specialized press. Columns from a large number of media sources are thus included in the cataloging data of each book.
The site also offers a mobile application compatible with the iOS and Android operating systems.
At the beginning of 2018, Babelio launched a Spanish-language version of their website.

### For literary professionals

Babelio offers a social network of authors intended to connect writers and their readers according to their literary tastes. The site also offers public libraries the opportunity to enrich their catalogs with community content (reviews, quotes, keyword clouds) through its Babelthèque website.

## Prix Babelio

In 2019, Babelio launched its annual readers' prize, the Prix Babelio, which rewards 10 winners in 10 categories. The first edition of the prize was awarded on 19 June 2019 and was decided as the result of 29,000 votes by 7,000 participating users. The 2nd Prix Babelio was awarded on 17 June 2020 as the result of 50,000 votes by 11,500 voters participating users. The 3rd Prix Babelio was awarded on 17 June 2021 as the result of 52,500 votes by 11,000 voters participating users. The 4th Prix Babelio was awarded on 15 June 2022 as the result of 51,000 votes by 10,000 voters participating users.

### Winners

| Year | French literature | Foreign literature | Crime and thriller | Comics | Manga | Children's | Young adult | Speculative fiction | Romance | Non-fiction |
| 2019 | Né d'aucune femme by Franck Bouysse | Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami | Surface by Olivier Norek | En route vers de nouvelles aventures Lou!, by Julien Neel | The Promised Neverland by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu | Engrenages et sortilèges by Adrien Tomas | Un si petit oiseau by Marie Pavlenko | Une sirène à Paris by Mathias Malzieu | Laisse tomber la neige by Cécile Chomin | À nous la liberté ! by Christophe André, Alexandre Jollien and Matthieu Ricard |
| 2020 | Mamma Maria by Serena Giuliano | The Testaments by Margaret Atwood | Victim 2117 by Jussi Adler-Olsen | Sacrées sorcières by Pénélope Bagieu | Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama | Legacy by Shannon Messenger | Heartstopper by Alice Oseman | Je suis fille de rage by Jean-Laurent Del Socorro | La vie a plus d'imagination que nous by Clarisse Sabard | Votre temps est infini by Fabien Olicard |
| 2021 | Chère Mamie au pays du confinement by Virginie Grimaldi | Le Fabuleux Voyage du carnet des silences by Clare Pooley | Le Mystère de la main rouge by Henri Lœvenbruck | Ne m'oublie pas by Alice Garin | The Apothecary Diaries by Natsu Hyūga, Itsuki Nanao and Nekokurage | J'ai 14 ans et ce n’est pas une bonne nouvelle by Jo Witek | Le syndrome du spaghetti by Marie Vareille | Les voleurs de fumée by Sally Green | Les étoiles brillent plus fort en hiver by Sophie Jomain | Vivre avec nos morts by Delphine Horvilleur |
| 2022 | Les Douleurs fantômes by Mélissa Da Costa | Blackwater by Michael McDowell | Dans les brumes de Capelans by Olivier Norek | Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe | Spy × Family by Tatsuya Endo | Mémoires de la forêt : Les Souvenirs de Ferdinand Taupe by Mickaël Brun-Arnaud and Sanoe | La Passeuse de mots, L'Œil de la vérité by Alric and Jennifer Twice | Capitale du Nord: Citadins de demain by Claire Duvivier | Vous reprendrez bien un peu de magie pour Noël ? by Carène Ponte | Les Fossoyeurs by Victor Castanet |
| 2023 | Les Femmes du bout du monde by Mélissa Da Costa | La Petite Fille by Bernhard Schlink | La Constance du prédateur by Maxime Chattam | Le Cœur en braille by Joris Chamblain and Anne-Lise Nalin | Orange, tome 7 by Ichigo Takano | Les gens sont beaux by Baptiste Beaulieu and Qin Leng | Just wanna be your brother by Nine Gorman and Mathieu Guibé | Fairy Tale by Stephen King | Captive, tome 2 by Sarah Rivens | Seul l'espoir apaise la douleur by Simone Veil |