I am 90 years old and have a genre mix preference I can't use here

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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. I’ve run into the same thing, where I’d like to select Historical Fiction and Mystery, so I completely understand where you’re coming from. I’ll pass this on to our tech team! (Which is really just Nick… we’re a small group!)

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Hi Joe,

Yes our system currently only allows for one genre to be tagged. “Literary Fiction” is BookBrowse’s catchall for contemporary fiction, and we’ll 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:

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The other two features you should try that transcend our tagging are our handpicked read-alikes:

And if you’ve 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 ‘genre agnostic’ 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 didn’t 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 don’t really want them to match books that were less than five star for me.
I’m open to learning more about how this works.

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Hi Anne, you can add any books to your reading list using the internet search feature:
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However when it comes to making the recommendations, we need the data from books we’ve reviewed in order to make accurate recommendations, which is why they have to be BookBrowse reviewed - at least for now.

I wouldn’t let whether a book is 4 or 5 stars stop you from adding and rating them - if you don’t like the recommendations that end up being generated you can add them to the ‘rejected’ 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 you’d like we can import those for you too.

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Thanks Nick. I must be doing something wrong because I still can’t get titles using internet search. I’ll keep trying.

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Hi Anne, what title are you looking for? The only reason it might not work is if you’re using a title that’s 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.

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Night Flyer by Tiya Miles.
I was entering both title and author so I don’t think the problem is that it is too generic. It’s not a biggie, Nick. I’ll keep messing with it and eventually it will click, I’m sure.

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