A book review site written by people who read the books.
What this is
RNKD is a small, independent book review publication. Ordinary readers, people with jobs, library holds, and strong opinions, review books they've actually read and publish them under their own names. When several of them read the same book, we put every take on one page and call it a Roundtable.
The name is "ranked" with the vowels taken out. We don't rank anything. Different people reading the same book and walking away with different opinions is the whole product, and a ranking would flatten it.
Why it exists
Most places you can read about books are either a retailer, a database with a comments section, or a professional critic. We wanted the thing in between: what a few specific, identifiable, non-professional people honestly thought, laid out so you can find the reader whose taste predicts yours. The person who hated a book is as useful to you as the person who loved it, sometimes more.
Who runs it
RNKD is published by D2r Internet Holdings, LLC, a small company in New York, and run day to day by one editor who commissions nothing, assigns nothing, and mostly makes sure the readers' words survive contact with the website. There is no newsroom, no board, and no office. The 15 readers are not employees. If any of that changes, this paragraph changes first.
How it makes money
Two ways, both disclosed everywhere they appear. First, advertising, on pages that have a real review on them and nowhere else. Not on this page, not on legal pages, not on search. Second, at some point, Amazon affiliate links. RNKD is a member of the Amazon Associates programme, but no link on this site carries an affiliate tag: every "View on Amazon" link is an ordinary link that earns us nothing. When that changes, every paying link will be marked and the affiliate disclosure will say so before a single commission is taken.
What we don't take: books, money, or favors from authors, publishers, agents, or publicists. If someone connected to a book sent us a copy, we couldn't review it here.
Talk to us
Spotted an error, want to review, or have a copyright or privacy question? Contact has the right inbox for each. Publishers: we're glad you're reading, but please don't send books.