Broadlist exists to help readers find books to read.
It is a collection of books which have been included in longlists, shortlists, and literary prizes from all over the world.
Broadlist is here to for readers of books. It will spend its time and effort focused on readers and their needs.
Broadlist, in order to be useful to readers of books, will be a good website.
It will be accessible, fast, reliable, and secure. It will be nice to use.
The core work of Broadlist is collecting, normalizing, and ever-so-slightly editorializing data from other organizations. This data is public. We, as a project or a website, do not own any of this data.
Every list that Broadlist collects is available as a feed and in an free and open-source, documented, plaintext file format called booklist. Broadlist maintains a free and open-source booklist parser. You can grab any booklist file by appending /booklist the URL of a list. Example: 1969 Booker Prize
If Broadlist ceases to exist at any point, it could be reconstructed from these files.
If someone wants to make a better Broadlist and would like to use our collected data to do so, we acknowledge that doing so is a legitimate pursuit.
When making decisions, Broadlist will prioritize its own values.