It’s Saturday, and you’re sitting in your comfy chair with a book, a cup of coffee, and not a care in the world. Then your book ends, and you’ve got big problems. You can only read The Brothers Karamazov but so many times, and now you need something else to read. But what?
Who do you rely on to tell you about new books? Your friends? Your family? Random strangers? Oracles? All good choices, but they don’t really know about your true reading taste. With a little help, though, the Web can know.
“What Should I Read Next”? tells you about the movies you should be watching.
I kid. The site is a robust book recommendation engine that is incredibly helpful. Visit the site, input the name and author of the book you just finished, and the engine spits out a number of books you might like. For instance, a search for Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle brings up the following:
The recommendations engine works on the lists created by users. If you create a free account on the site, you can input a list of books you’ve read and liked. WSIRN takes your lists and considers them in their recommendations for others, and is also able to give you better, more personalized recommendations for your own reading as well.
If you liked a book the site’s never heard of, it’s easy to add to their database. It’s about 47,000 titles right now, so odds are the books you like are there
I’ve found a number of good reads through the site. Creating an account and building a list of books you’ve read is a really useful tool as well, both as a record of your reading, and a way to find new books you may not know about.
Check out “What Should I Read Next?” here.
WSIRN also has a partner site, for film and music, called “This One Next.” Check it out here.
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