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24 alternatives to BestSFBooks, Mashup of the Best SF/Fantasy Books
I'm releasing BestSFBooks today: http://www.bestsfbooks.com I was inspired by this HN post from a few weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2978027 BestSFBooks ranks science fiction/fantasy books according to how many awards they've won or been nominated for. I included all the big ones (Hugo, Nebula, etc.) and also more obscure awards that I like such as SF Site Editor's choice. Once I had all the awards in there it was easy to start creating a New Book list based on award winning authors. I could tell the app was working as soon as I saw the two book lists on the home page.…
BestSFBooks is a website that ranks science fiction and fantasy books based on major and minor award wins and nominations, including the Hugo, Nebula, and SF Site Editor's Choice. It compiles these rankings into… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. BestSFBooks, Mashup of the Best SF/Fantasy Books launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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List Horizon▲68Track your progress through the best Science Fiction books.
2017 · listhorizon.com · its alternatives →
- 2TF
2020 · topfantasyreads.com · its alternatives →
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A collection of sci-fi and fantasy short stories.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I know reading books isn’t everyone’s thing, but it’s certainly been mine for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, I felt like the online book space was missing a platform that does the book community justice. Goodreads is the go-to "social platform", but if you've been on Goodreads before, you'll probably agree that it's not all that social, and overall not all that exciting. So I set out to build what I personally was looking for (but could never find). The goal: to give the book community a more social and streamlined alternative to Goodreads or StoryGraph. We also felt like…
2022 · booqsi.com · its alternatives →
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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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Compare! 📚▲190See the overlap of top founders' recommended books
2021 · mostrecommendedbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Books recommended by the world's most successful people
2020 · mostrecommendedbooks.com · its alternatives →
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BookSelects▲147Book recommendations from experts tailored to your interests
2024 · bookselects.com · its alternatives →
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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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HN Books collects, ranks, and showcases the best books that have been recommended on Hacker News.
2021 · yahnd.com · its alternatives →
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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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Beautiful illustrated hardcover classics of SF & Fantasy
2015 · foliosociety.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · best-books.dev · 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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pipeRead▲102Hi HN, Piperead is a free web tool that uses AI to act as a personalized librarian. Instead of just genre tags, we use specific "personas" to generate recommendations. The goal was to make something simple, fast, and free. Because we achieved to keep minimum cost. The site is live at https://piperead.com We are trying to fine-tune the recommendation quality. Feedback on the UX and the recommendation relevance is very welcome.
Dec 2025 · piperead.com · its alternatives →
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Bookbot▲61Discovery tool from /r/fantasy community recommendations
2016 · bookbot.io · its alternatives →
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BookBuster▲80Stumble upon an award winning book on a new tab
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · ihbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Book Advisor▲77Stop wasting time searching for the next great book.
2023 · notioninja.com · its alternatives →
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Looking for new book series to read?
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 24RS
2017 · redditfavorites.com · its alternatives →
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