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You can create something like Good Reads out of BuddyPress most definitely. How you go about it though is a bit of a huge question. If you don’t feel comfortable first I’d recommend hiring a developer and designer or partnering with some. It’s certainly going to be beyond the ‘tie a few plugins together’ task.

Once you’ve got the ‘who’ to build sorted you can then look at planning what you want to form the foundation. You probably want to figure out what people want to do – their actions when using your site. From there, you can work out a list of what you need built.

I know you may be looking for a plan but that’s not really something anyone can provide you, it’s ultimately up to you as to what you want to build. In short, can you – yes… how – up to you