Novellect
A personal experiment.
Literary curation for the modern mind.
Novellect is a book recommendation tool that starts with you instead of the bestseller list. It holds a short conversation, about ten questions that mix multiple choice and open answers, builds a picture of your interests, values and taste, and then recommends ten “deep cut” books chosen to avoid the obvious titles.
Recommendations can be saved to a reading list.
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A ten-question consultation
Some questions offer choices, others ask you to answer in your own words.
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A profile of the reader
An AI model (GPT-4o-mini, through Puter.js) maps the answers to your interests, values and cultural leanings.
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Ten books you probably haven’t found
The recommendations are chosen to be niche on purpose, steering away from the books everyone already knows.
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Save what you like
Signed-in readers can keep their recommendations in a collection.
Book suggestions come from an AI model, so check that a title exists before you go looking for it.