NPR Books has released a new web app designed to help readers discover what they might like to read among NPR’s best 200 books of the year. The Book Concierge lets you mix and match from 21 different categories of reading. You can combine your moods to come up with what will fit.
When you launch the app, you are greeted with view a visual feed of book covers for all of NPR’s top books of the year. Then on the left hand side bar you can pick and choose tags. For instance, mix “Cookbooks & Food” with “Comis & Graphic Novels” will result in the recommendation that you check out Relish by Lucy Knisley. If you mix “Seriously Great Writing,” with “Memoir & Biography” and Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward, Fosse by Sam Wasson, I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman are among the recommendations. You can link to reviews of the books after you’ve made your choices and see who at NPR recommends the book.
Try it out, it’s a fun way to browse the “best books of the year.”