It took a few tries to find a non-classic book I've read and own. I was surprised by the neighbors/recommendations for Henri Troyat's Tolstoy:

- George Orwell's 1984, a "Bloom's Guides" edition (Cliff's Notes-looking thing)

- Benjamin Franklin, a graphic-novel format biography of the statesman and scientist

- Gran Pionero de Beísbol, a graphic-novel format biography of Jackie Robison

- Wilma Rudolph, a graphic-novel format biography of the Olympian runner

- Martin and John, "with a frankness about sexuality rarely seen in contemporary fiction ... a haunting, daring, and heartrending debut novel that speaks of gay life"

Those results don't seem to reflect the stated methodology in the "About" section... the only commonality is that three of the five are biographies. I expected more things to do with Russian literature, or literary biographies contemporary with Troyat's.

I'm interested in the project's implementation, it's too bad it isn't open source.