Catalog-aware recommendation tool

What should I read next?

This finder scores books from this site's own catalog using the preferences you choose. Questions are built from useful differences inside the collection, so options that do not meaningfully separate the books can be left out.

93 books available 4 categories 93 books with reading-time data

Your reading preferences

Choose only what matters to you. “No preference” never penalizes a book.

What kind of book are you in the mood for?

Only categories that actually exist in this catalog are shown.

How long a book do you want?

For EPUBs without fixed print pagination, page counts are clearly labelled estimates from word count.

How much reading time do you want to commit?

Based on the source-text reading-time estimate stored for each book.

What chapter rhythm sounds best?

Relative to the books in this catalog, using average words per chapter.

What kind of sentence flow do you prefer?

This is a catalog-relative text statistic, not a scientific reading-level claim.

Is there a subject you want to lean toward?

These choices are automatically taken from recurring Project Gutenberg subject metadata.

Do you want a familiar pick or a hidden gem?

Based only on view activity on this site; it is not a quality rating.

Inside this collection

How this book finder uses the catalog

The catalog currently holds 93 books across four categories. The largest categories are Fantasy Juvenile Worlds (24 books) and Historical Psychological Social Fiction (24 books), with Science Fiction Utopias (23) and Adventure Picaresque Fiction (22) close behind.

Books range from about 10,000 words to over 150,000 words. The median word count is 52,636, and the median reading time is 229 minutes (about 3.8 hours). This gives a sense of the typical book length, though there is wide variation.

Category Breakdown

Fantasy Juvenile Worlds (24), Historical Psychological Social Fiction (24), Science Fiction Utopias (23), Adventure Picaresque Fiction (22). These are the four thematic areas of the library.

Length Distribution

Short books (under 30,000 words) number 20, medium (30,000-60,000) 31, long (60,000-100,000) 25, and epic (over 100,000) 17. This shows a good spread of lengths.

Reading Time Distribution

Quick reads (under 1 hour) account for 19 titles, steady (1-3 hours) 28, immersive (3-6 hours) 33, and marathon (over 6 hours) 13. So most books fall into the steady to immersive range.