Too many ARCs. Too many deadlines. Not enough hours in the reading day.

The Bureau of Reader Affairs ARC Book Review Tracker is a digital Google Sheets template for organizing advance reader copies, tracking review deadlines, and managing reading and reviewing progress. Keep your books from NetGalley, BookSirens, publishers, and author review teams in one delightfully bureaucratic place.

What’s included

• ARC Registry: Record book information, publication dates, review deadlines, reading progress, and review status.
• Accountability Dashboard: An automatically updating overview of active cases, completed reviews, overdue obligations, and reading statistics. The Bureau also delivers its verdict on your ARC request privileges.
• Upcoming Deadlines: Automatically highlights approaching review obligations so you can prioritize your reading.
• Outstanding Warrants: Automatically flags and organizes overdue reviews.
• Closed Case Archive: Reviews marked as posted appear in your completed review archive.
• Settings & Lists: Customize your tracker using the included settings and dropdown lists.
• Bureau Procedures: A built-in guide to using the tracker and its features.

Designed for ARC readers, book reviewers, bloggers, BookTok and Bookstagram creators, and publisher or author ARC teams. Whether you’re managing three ARCs or thirty, the Bureau is prepared to handle your paperwork.

How to access your tracker

After purchase, you’ll receive a downloadable Official Access Authorization document containing your tracker access link.

1. Open the authorization document and select Open Your ARC Tracker.
2. Sign into your Google account if prompted.
3. Select Make a copy to create your personal, editable tracker.
4. Start entering your books, deadlines, and review information.

Your personal copy is saved to your own Google Drive. The original template remains unchanged.

Important information

• Digital Google Sheets template only. No physical product will be shipped.
• A free Google account is required.
• Microsoft Excel compatibility is not guaranteed.
• You’ll receive a blank tracker. Book information and ARC records are not included.
• Review deadlines are tracked separately from publication dates, so you can record the deadlines for your individual ARCs.

Organize your ARCs. File your reviews. Close your cases.

And remember: the Bureau is always watching.

Bureau of Reader Affairs, an official division of The Story Forge.