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Love at First Site: What Should I Read Next?

The website What Should I Read Next? is exactly what it sounds like.

Users enter a favourite book title or author, and the site’s database is mined for a “similar” option. What Should I Read Next? is community driven: readers add their own lists, which in turn generate the recommendations.

Although my TBR list is already monstrously long, I decided to give it a whirl.

I intentionally chose a less-than-common novel:

A Glastonbury Romance

A Glastonbury Romance

These are the suggestions I received:

Results, Part 1

Results, Part 1

Results, Part 2

Results, Part 2

I’m not sure how helpful those suggestions are. Middling? Surprising? It really doesn’t matter, because I could do this all day. As a time-wasting game, it’s pretty fun. If my TBR list gains a few new entries, that is delicious, fluffy icing.

If you give it a go, please let me know your results!

John Steinbeck Quote

Quote

“Consequently I have never even wondered about the comparative standing of writers. I don’t understand that. Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product is turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn’t mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.”-John Steinbeck (Paris Review-The Art of Fiction No. 45)

John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45 [The Paris Review]