Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to AuthorLens – a new way to find good books to read
The previous submission [1] didn't catch on, so re-trying with a less substantive title! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41680056
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. AuthorLens – a new way to find good books to read launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi everyone, For the past couple months I've been working on a website with two main features: - https://book.sv - put in a list of books and get recommendations on what to read next from a model trained on over a billion reviews - https://book.sv/intersect - put in a list of books and find the users on Goodreads who have read them all (if you don't want to be included in these results, you can opt-out here: https://book.sv/remove-my-data) Technical info available here: https://book.sv/how-it-works Note 1: If you only provide one or two…
Nov 2025 · book.sv · its alternatives →
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- 3SW
Hi HN, Every year, we ask thousands of readers (and authors) to share their 3 favorite reads of the year. Now you can enter a book/author you love and see what books readers loved who also loved that book/author. Try it here: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2025 This goes wide and doesn't try to limit itself to the genre, so you get some interesting results. What do you think? Background: I want better recommendations based on my reading history. I'm incredibly frustrated with what is out there. This system is based on 5,000 readers voting on their 3 favorite reads…
Dec 2025 · shepherd.com · its alternatives →
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BingeBooks▲98The book bingeing site to find your next great read
2022 · bingebooks.com · its alternatives →
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A recommendation tool to find your next book
2017 · whichbookshouldiread.com · its alternatives →
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Bookbot▲61Discovery tool from /r/fantasy community recommendations
2016 · bookbot.io · its alternatives →
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Looking for new book series to read?
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Timeless internet writing
2023 · readsomethingwonderful.com · its alternatives →
- 13AB
I spent a lot of time going through the recent thread: Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756432) so I made this website to browse through it later and get the books I want from Amazon. It gets the comments using the HN API, uses the Open AI API to extract book names, and then the Amazon API to find the book on Amazon.
2024 · hnbestbooks.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Read Faster by Reading Ideas Instead of Just Words
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! I wanted to share a project that I've been working on the last few days that I finally finished last night: https://50books.org This is a simple site designed to track your reading list into 2015. My personal goal is to read 50 books this year, and I wanted to hold myself accountable. Major sites like Goodreads are great, but were too much of a social network for my personal taste; on the other hand, using a text file (which was my 2014 solution) was too difficult to track and share. I built https://50books.org using Sinatra, sqlite3 (via datamapper), and…
2015 · its alternatives →
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Browse the top books on various sub-reddits
2018 · redditreads.com · its alternatives →
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I love books! I had once come across a great list of book recommendations on the LessWrong website ("The Best Textbooks on Every Subject"). But when I had stumbled upon the list a couple of years ago the last comments and recommendations on it were from 2011. And similarly I found that most recommendations on the web suffer from this form of time decay. What I wanted was a site that had high quality recommendations similar to the LessWrong list that would feel fresh and current. Amazon was overwhelming for me since it has a gazillion books on each subject and the "Thanks! Arrived in good…
2015 · its alternatives →
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Read the first pages of a book without judging the cover
2017 · recommendmeabook.com · its alternatives →
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