Over my lifetime I have evolved from being a British mystery reader until now I find that I prefer books which have ALL three genres: literary, history, mystery.
In the search process here, I can find excellent books in any of these three genres, but never for all three in the same book. I have read several hundred books that qualify over the past 4 years so they do exist.
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Thanks, Joe! I appreciate the feedback. Iâve run into the same thing, where Iâd like to select Historical Fiction and Mystery, so I completely understand where youâre coming from. Iâll pass this on to our tech team! (Which is really just Nick⌠weâre a small group!)
Hi Joe,
Yes our system currently only allows for one genre to be tagged. âLiterary Fictionâ is BookBrowseâs catchall for contemporary fiction, and weâll likely change that name at some point, so you should likely use mystery for the genre and then you can filter by time period to find mysteries set in the past, so this should get you pretty close:
The other two features you should try that transcend our tagging are our handpicked read-alikes:
And if youâve added and rated at least 5 books reviewed by BookBrowse to your reading list, you can take advantage of our personalized recommendations:
Both of these are âgenre agnosticâ and should lead to richer recommendations.
The other thing you can try is ask for book suggestions in Book Suggestions
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I didnât know about the read-alikes recommendations feature. So I went in to add a few of my five-star reads only to learn they are not in the BB database. Is there a way I can add them? It would be great to get some recommendations but I donât really want them to match books that were less than five star for me.
Iâm open to learning more about how this works.
Hi Anne, you can add any books to your reading list using the internet search feature:
However when it comes to making the recommendations, we need the data from books weâve reviewed in order to make accurate recommendations, which is why they have to be BookBrowse reviewed - at least for now.
I wouldnât let whether a book is 4 or 5 stars stop you from adding and rating them - if you donât like the recommendations that end up being generated you can add them to the ârejectedâ section of your reading list and new recommendations will populate on a daily basis.
We are going to import the ratings from the 2024 best of year survey in a week or two so if youâd like we can import those for you too.
Thanks Nick. I must be doing something wrong because I still canât get titles using internet search. Iâll keep trying.
Hi Anne, what title are you looking for? The only reason it might not work is if youâre using a title thatâs too generic / popular and the search results are showing other titles first - if you use the ISBN number that will typically force an exact match.
Night Flyer by Tiya Miles.
I was entering both title and author so I donât think the problem is that it is too generic. Itâs not a biggie, Nick. Iâll keep messing with it and eventually it will click, Iâm sure.
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Thanks for all of those suggestions. I will continue to use BB because the objectives are an exact match for the books I like to read. I am adding to my reading list my memorable books from 2023 and 2024. I donât know if anyone else can see my reading list but if you can it will clarify the books I have liked the most.
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Nick is working on my best books of 2023 and 2024 and I appreciate him so much!
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@Joe_Bozovich I donât know of any way to see othersâ reading lists, but Iâd love to hear which books youâve really liked this past year or two, particularly if theyâre not on the BookBrowse radar!
Nick is working on a way to import 2 years of my most memorable books. Maybe I could add those as additions to this forum like others have listed.
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