BookLamp Connects Students to Books They’ll Love

There are lots of useful book recommendation websites, but out of all of them, BookLamp.org takes the cake.  

Using a computer-based analysis of written DNA, BookLamp helps connect readers to books they’ll love.

I could try to explain the specifics of how the site works, but I think BookLamp does it better than I can:

To start, BookLamp does not categorize or label books, as you would expect in genre or BISAC codes, nor do so through human or community tagging.  Instead we do the exact opposite: We ignore genre and super-classifications and instead only pay attention to the page-by-page components that the author combined to make up the book.  We don’t look at what category the book is in, but instead the DNA elements that are in the book, and how that makes one book similar to another regardless of what shelf it sits on in the library or bookstore.

Unlike, say, Amazon.com or YourNextRead, BookLamp's engine isn't influenced by advertising or popularity bias. New and niche authors are not ignored, and revered authors are not promoted simply based upon their popularity. To put it simply, BookLamp has no agenda other than connecting readers to texts that they’ll love!

Just to see how BookLamp works, I searched for an old favorite, Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet. Here’s what BookLamp came up with: