Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read

Re:Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/au... by eastoeast on Monday December 29, 2025 @09:36AM (#46421163)

Sweet, looking now to get some recommendations! I'm actually surprised more people don't have my two favorites overlapped more often (Mistborn and Name of the Wind)!

Question: when you don't search a book, it shows "Loved by X people", when you do, it shows "Book twins". I'd be really interested in seeing most frequently loved books, from people that like the book/books I'm searching. It would make it obvious I'm missing something!

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Re:Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/au... by bwb on Monday December 29, 2025 @09:49AM (#46421295)

I'm surprised too, as that is one I overlap on :)

We are working to do it based on frequency as part of the bigger app we are building right now. And show that. I'm hoping we might get that in this for next year.

On the broader site, we do have "books like" Kingkiller Chronicles, and it does them based on the frequency they are associated together in the lists by humans: https://shepherd.com/books-in-order/the-kingkiller-chronicle...

(funny enough, the most recommended book alongside Kingkiller is Mistborn)

And Mistborn here: https://shepherd.com/books-in-order/mistborn/books-like

So we take the 12,000 book lists authors have made, and use that to generate these.

What do you think?

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Re:Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/au... by zeroonetwothree on Monday December 29, 2025 @10:52AM (#46421868)

You overlap with my antifavorites, if that counts.

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