📚 Advanced Goodreads Recommender

Find books you’ll love: semantic + keyword + popularity hybrid recommendations with explainability.

🔎 What are you looking for?

📊 Number of Recommendations

1 30

💡 Include explanations

🎛 Advanced Filters

⭐ Minimum Average Rating

0 5

🔥 Minimum Ratings Count

📅 From Year

📅 To Year

👤 Author Filter (optional)

✨ Example searches

Examples

🔎 What are you looking for?	📊 Number of Recommendations	💡 Include explanations	⭐ Minimum Average Rating	🔥 Minimum Ratings Count	📅 From Year	📅 To Year	👤 Author Filter (optional)

📊 Goodreads Dataset Statistics

📚 Total Books: 10,000
👥 Unique Authors: 4,664
🕰 Publication Range: 1120 — 2017
⭐ Average Rating: 4.00/5.0
📝 Total Ratings: 540,012,351

Top Rated:
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (4.82⭐) • Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) by Brandon Sanderson (4.77⭐) • Harry Potter Boxed Set, Books 1-5 (Harry Potter, #1-5) by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (4.77⭐)

Most Popular:
• The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins (4,780,653 ratings) • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (4,602,479 ratings) • Twilight (Twilight, #1) by Stephenie Meyer (3,866,839 ratings)

🔄 Last Updated: 2025-11-11 17:34:41

💡 Tips

Use natural language: "books like Dune with female lead"
Use filters to narrow by era, rating or author
Toggle explanations to see why each book was recommended

Enter a search query to get recommendations.

🔎 Quick Actions

Try: modern sci-fi with strong female leads
Try: books like 1984

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