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the problem is that when you step out of genre fiction, you cant just recommend a book with a similar plot or setting, it needs to have a similar style of writing and sensibility and thats very hard to determine.

the best way is friending/following people and learning their tastes compared to yours

e: if you go to a specific book and look up similar books, goodreads actually does a pretty good job https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/1994351-j-r

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> the best way is friending/following people and learning their tastes compared to yours

If only goodreads could somehow find others who like the same things you do and use it for recommendations!

Joking aside, they might already be doing that, but if so, they suck at it. They have enormous datasets of people and their tastes, yet their recommendations always seem to be simply matching genres that you happened to like a book from. You liked Watership Down? Here are 10 other books with talking animals!

If you and I can successfully identify people we share tastes with, then goodreads should be able to, too, they have even more data to base this on.

I would think that Amazon with Look Inside The Book and Kindle eBooks has enough data to do this, if anyone can?

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