Tuesday, October 30, 2012

What Should I Read Next?


A friend of mine posted a link to What Should I Read Next?, a website which purports to be able to recommend books you should read based on books you've previously read. Now, I've seen this feature at work in a commercial setting, like Barnes and Noble, where they tend not to take too many risks ("If you like The Room Over The Fragrant Roses, you might like The Room Over The Fragrant Roses Strikes Back!"), so I'm a little curious how this website will work. I decided to run through a bunch of the books I've been reading recently, and we'll see what we get back.

Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Without Feathers, by Woody Allen
  • Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography, by Sharon Osbourne
  • Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, by Al Franken
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
  • Sandkings, by George R.R. Martin
  • The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett
  • Fat Ollie's Book, by Ed McBain
Still Life With Oysters and Lemon, by Mark Doty
  • Living Well Is the Best Revenge , by Calvin Tomkins
  • State of Denial, by Bob Woodward
  • The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History, by Robert Darnton
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson
  • Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown
  • Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
Bossypants, by Tina Fey
  • Kiss of the Spiderwoman, by Manuel Puig
  • Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness, by Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
  • Mary Poppins, by P.L. Travers
  • An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
  • Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James
  • Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes
  • Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank
Leadership and Self-Deception, by the Arbinger Institute
  • Mind Wide Open: Why You Are What You Think, by Steven Johnson
  • The Fifth Discipline: Art and Practice of the Learning Organization , by Peter M. Senge
  • Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, by Seth Godin
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, by David Lubar
  • I Am the Wallpaper, by Mark Peter Hughes
  • Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines 1: Rebel Dream, by Aaron Allston
  • Hitler's Daughter, by Jackie French
Maus: A Survivor's Tale , by Art Spiegelman
  • Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre, by Bell Hooks
  • From Hell, by Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell, and Phil D. Amara
  • Nausea, by Jean-Paul Satre
The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
  • Selected Poems, by Emily Dickinson
  • How Right You Are, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse, Eddie Campbell, and Phil D. Amara
  • Charly, by Jack Weyland

1 comment:

heidikins said...

I typed in "East of Eden" and ended up with TWO Jack Weyland recommendations. It is against my moral and literary principles to support such a site after that kind of result.

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