Find books and audiobooks that actually fit your taste.
Built from what you finish, abandon, keep, rate, and listen to.
Reads for momentum and voice.
- Fast-paced
- Character-aware
- Clear prose
- Medium complexity
- Prefers resolved endings
- Strong audiobook fit when narration has personality
An example built from real titles. Yours will look different.
Real titles behind the example above. The profile is built from the pattern in what a reader finishes, abandons and keeps, not from the genre.
Your book taste is not a genre. It is a pattern in what you finish, abandon and keep.
Finish
The baseline signal
Every book you get to the end of tells us something about pace, prose and structure that a star rating cannot.
Abandon
A powerful signal
What you abandon, especially when we know why, can tell us more than a simple star rating. One book put down is a signal in context, never a verdict on its author or genre.
Keep
The rarest signal
The handful of books you would never give away. They anchor your profile, and we weight them accordingly.
The Reading DNA builds a personal taste profile from your real reading behaviour, then explains why certain books and audiobooks may fit you. You can start with a handful of books, or none at all, and it gets sharper with every one you add.
Why it fits
A slow-burn, character-led book, with real humour and light in tone. Readers who finish books built like this are matched to it, and told why.
Every recommendation in the product carries a written reason. In the product it comes from your profile and the book's DNA and is kept with the pick; this example is phrased from the book's recorded DNA alone.
Ask, the way you would ask a very good librarian who remembers what you read.
Your Librarian knows your reading history, your TBR, what you loved and what you put down, the narrators you rate, and how its earlier picks landed. Ask it a plain question and it answers with one recommendation, up to two alternatives, and the reason for each.
- Your history.
- What you finished, abandoned (and why), kept, rated, and are reading now.
- Your TBR.
- It picks from the books you already want, before it suggests new ones.
- Your no.
- A book you put down is a signal in context, not a ban on its author or genre.
- Your listening.
- Audiobook editions and narrators on record, and the narrators you rate.
- What you told it.
- Durable preferences you ask it to remember, and the ones you ask it to forget.
- How its picks landed.
- Want to read, not for me, already read: every answer teaches the next one.
- Pick my next book from my TBR.
- I loved this, but hated that. What should I try next?
- Which of these three should I read first?
- I need an audiobook for a long drive. Which edition fits me?
- Get me out of a reading slump.
It can compare candidates, find something like one book without the part you disliked, tell you where a series goes next, look up the audiobook editions and narrators on record, and explain every pick in plain words.
Every title it names is checked against the catalogue before you see it, and its reasons come from your own history and the book's recorded DNA. When it has little to go on, it says so, and it gets sharper as you add books. It recommends; it never buys, posts or acts for you.
Which version should you listen to?
A book can have five audiobook editions and five different narrators. The difference can decide whether you finish. See the audiobook editions and narrators we have on record, and build your narrator preferences alongside your reading taste.
A good fit. Listen rather than read.
Taste-based guidance from a reader's profile, not verified production data.
Steven Pacey edition
Narrated by Steven Pacey. Unabridged.
A verified narrator credit on record. Other versions appear as they are verified, never before.
An example from the catalogue. Narrators are people worth following; every narrator name in the product links to a profile when one has been written.
Honest when the data is thin.
We never invent a rating, a narrator or a fit. When a book has no audiobook on record, we say so. When your profile is built from five books, we tell you it is early. With very little history the Librarian still answers, and says how much it is guessing. The product improves as you add more, and it will say exactly how.
250,000+ books in the catalogue. Book DNA is added continuously, and we say which books carry it.
Abandoned is a first-class status, with a reason, in three taps or fewer.
Audiobook fit is always labelled as taste-based guidance, never as fact.
Kept means something. We treat it as a clear yes and give it weight.
Bring your reading history. Leave with a profile.
Import from Goodreads in one step, or add a few books by hand. The system reads what it knows and learns the rest as you go.
Magic-link sign in, no password, no queue. Your reading history is never sold or used to target advertising.