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Life & fun · July 8, 2020

A book recommendation engine backed by 7 million book ratings

Book recommendations that don't suck. Magically disambiguate your weird taste in books, and see what worlds may unfurl before you.

A book recommendation engine backed by 7 million book ratings launched on July 8, 2020 with 30 votes, #871 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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A book recommendation engine that analyzes 7 million book ratings to suggest titles matched to reader preferences. Launched in 2020, the tool helps people discover new books based on their reading history and tastes. It's designed for book lovers looking to find their next read without browsing endlessly through catalogs. The engine's strength lies in its large dataset of ratings, which enables more personalized recommendations than smaller recommendation systems.

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From the sources

A Book Like Foo is a book recommendation engine. It discovers books tailored to specific tastes and themes, selected from hundreds of thousands of titles. Often it will reveal unintuitive but accurate recommendations. It is not limited by the assumptions we generally make about what books we think people might like. My name is James and I've been building and re-building this platform over five years, updating it yearly with new books, new tooling, and tweaking its backing algorithms. This site is purely funded by my own pocket, so I ask that, if you've gained any value from it, please consider donating on ko-fi . Try searching for you own favourites and see what matches with your…from abooklikefoo.com

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