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Book Recommendation Engines

OK, I am trying to make a list of book recommendation engines. You know, the one’s that are sort of 2.0 or socially driven…
Here’s a few I know about:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
BN BookBrowser
Borders
Suggestica
Inside a Dog (teens)
MySpace Books
Books We Like
OCLC’s FictionFinder
All Consuming
LibraryThing
Next Favorite
StoryCode
Rating Zone
Hypatia and AlexLit
WhichBook.net
AllReaders.com
Reader’s Robot
gnooks
If I’ve missed a good one or an obvious one, let me know in the comments. Thanks.
And the next step is Film, Game, Music CD and DVD recommenders which include some of the same ones.
Stephen

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Posted on: September 16, 2006, 9:57 pm Category: Uncategorized

By: stephen

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  1. Jenny Levine said
    on September 18, 2006 10:43 am

    This project *screams* wiki to me….

  2. Heather said
    on September 18, 2006 12:20 pm

    What about Ebsco’s NoveList? I guess it’s not very 2.0, but neither is OCLC’s Fiction Finder. NoveList is freely available online to many people who have a public library card. Disclosure: I write freelance articles for NoveList, so I’m not an entirely disinterested party, but I really do think it’s better than a lot of the ones you’ve listed above. I’d be interested to see other people’s thoughts on NoveList vs. these free services.

  3. les said
    on September 20, 2006 6:05 am

    What about http://www.bookmooch.com. Its very new and lacks the books, but it’ll reach a tipping point soon.

  4. leslie kahn said
    on October 6, 2006 9:56 am

    Libraries with marvelous-to-me readers advisory programs include the
    St. Joseph County Public Library http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page
    and the Waterboro Library (Maine) http://www.waterborolibrary.org/bklista.htm
    Again, these materials were formulated before the 2.0 phenomenon, but we use them all the time.
    http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com is also useful.
    And _What Do I Read Next_, from Gale, complements NoveList.

  5. Marlise said
    on October 25, 2006 10:30 am

    Great list! I hope you don’t mind if I try incorporating some of them into my Rollyo Readalike test site…

  6. C said
    on July 28, 2007 9:39 am

    God help us! Wiki formatting is the death of anything serious — the triumph of free time over serious or truly informed.

  7. David Brake said
    on December 10, 2007 6:16 am

    I found Springfield City Library’s guide by accident (http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/reading/booklist.html) and it seems remarkably comprehensive although it is a series of static pages not a database…

  8. Aaron said
    on March 15, 2008 3:08 am

    This is a bit of a self-promotion, since I work with BookLamp, but BookLamp.org is a new-comer that analyzes the full-text of a book for stylistic trends, and finds matching books based on the results. Very much like Pandora.com, but for books (that’s the quickest way to describe it).
    Anyway, it’s worth at least checking out, I think:
    http://booklamp.org