About
Give me something to read finds books like the ones you loved, says why each one fits, and shows the cheapest way to read or listen to it: free, at your library, or the likely price to buy. It's free, with no accounts and no ads.
How picks are made
No AI picks your books. Every book is described by what it's made of: its genres and subjects, where and when it's set, its author, its series, its era, who it's written for, its form (a novel, poetry, a graphic novel) and words from its description. Picks are the books that share the most with yours, and rare shared traits count for more than common ones.
The list is balanced so no one series or author fills it: one book per series and two per author near the top, and a series comes in at its first book. The "why it fits" line under each pick names only traits that actually counted, and never spoilers. Under Steer, tap a trait to get more of it, or tap it again to leave it out.
Where to read
- Free means a US public-domain copy on Project Gutenberg. For listening, LibriVox's volunteers have recorded many of these.
- Library links search Libby and OverDrive, where you can see whether a library near you has the ebook or audiobook. WorldCat shows libraries with a print copy.
- Likely price is Apple Books' price for the ebook or audiobook, with the date it was checked. Big publishers set one ebook price for every store, so it's usually the same elsewhere, but check before you buy.
- Subscriptions (Kindle Unlimited, Everand, Kobo Plus, Spotify, Audible Plus) are links. None of them shares which books it includes, so the site doesn't guess.
The catalogue was last built October 20, 2026, from Open Library's data of September 30, 2026.
Data sources
- Open Library
- Books, authors, subjects, descriptions, reader counts and ratings, from its monthly data dumps. Covers are loaded from Open Library's cover service, courtesy of Open Library.
- Wikidata
- English titles, series and their order, genres and publication dates (CC0).
- Project Gutenberg
- Free US public-domain ebooks.
- Apple Books
- Ebook and audiobook prices. For a few recent books its genres also tell fiction from non-fiction.
- Red Hat fonts
- Red Hat Display and Red Hat Text, under the SIL Open Font License.
Give me something isn't affiliated with any of these services. Covers and descriptions belong to their publishers and authors. If you hold the rights to one and want it removed, email contact@givemesomething.to.
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