book

A book. Books are also products, so they inherit price/brand fields. User-specific state (rating, shelf, dates) and platform metrics are modeled as edge values.

Metadata	Value
Plural	`books`
Subtitle field	`author`
Identity	`isbn13`, `isbn`
Also	`product`

Fields

Field	Type
`isbn`	`string`
`isbn13`	`string`
`pages`	`integer`
`genres`	`string[]`
`series`	`string`
`format`	`string`
`language`	`string`
`originalTitle`	`string`
`places`	`string[]`
`characters`	`string[]`
`awardsWon`	`string[]`

Relations

Relation	Target
`writtenBy`	`person`
`contributors`	`person[]`
`publisher`	`organization`

Inherited

From product:

Field	Type
`aisle`	`string`
`availability`	`string`
`barcode`	`string`
`calories`	`number`
`categories`	`string[]`
`currency`	`string`
`department`	`string`
`images`	`json`
`novaGroup`	`integer`
`nutritionScore`	`string`
`originalPrice`	`string`
`originalPriceAmount`	`number`
`price`	`string`
`priceAmount`	`number`
`quantity`	`integer`
`servingSize`	`string`
`sku`	`string`
`soldByWeight`	`boolean`
`weight`	`string`
`weightUnit`	`string`
`weightValue`	`number`

Relation	Target
`brand`	`brand`
`manufacturer`	`organization`
`tagged`	`tag[]`

Prior art

External standards this shape draws from or aligns with. See Shape design principles for how prior art informs shape design.

schema.org/Book — Our isbn maps to isbn; writtenBy = author; publisher matches; pages = numberOfPages; language = inLanguage; format ≈ bookFormat (Hardcover/Paperback/EBook).
ONIX for Books 3.0 — Publishing-industry canonical. Our isbn/isbn13/pages/format/language/series/originalTitle align with ONIX Product Identifier, Extent, ProductForm, Language, Collection, and OriginalLanguageTitle composites.
Open Library Books API — Practical lookup by ISBN. Our genres/characters/places/awardsWon map to subjects/subject_people/subject_places/subject_times (awards less standardized).

Skills that produce this shape

goodreads — get_book, list_similar_books, list_series_books, search_books, list_author_books, list_books, list_shelf_books