Ooh. It is so rare that you come across a site that you just know is going to grow and be something special. That’s my opinion on www.whatshouldireadnext.com.

Tell it the name of the last book you read, or enjoyed. Or whatever. From that is will work out ‘similar’ books that you can look at. Of course it had never heard about perhaps my favourite book, The Wood Wife - but after my entry it does.

After a couple of minutes use, mainly by just clicking check boxes, my list contains:

War for the Oaks - Emma Bull BuyDeleteAdd Comment
The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel - Mark Gatiss
The Wood Wife - Terri Windling
The Onion Girl - Charles De Lint
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, Blake Morrison

It recommended to me:

Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald, Tony Tanner
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Dune - Frank Herbert
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Four of which I’d already read, not bad.

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