Books, by how they actually read

A genre tells you what shelf a book sits on. It doesn't tell you whether the book is cosy or brutal, a page-turner or a slow burn, or whether it ends happily. Those are usually what decide whether you'll love it.

Match Book has read 1,407 books across fifteen dimensions. Browse them by the dimension you care about, or open any book to see its full reading and the six books closest to it. Not sure where to start? Read how to choose your next book.

By mood

How a book feels to read — the dimension readers name first.

By pace, length and ending

The practical questions: how fast, how long, how it ends.

By theme

What the books are about underneath the plot.

Recently read by Match Book

The Kingdom of Gods — N. K. Jemisin
The Queen of Attolia — Megan Whalen Turner
The Folding Knife — K. J. Parker
The Dagger and the Coin — Daniel Abraham
The Lions of al-Rassan — Guy Gavriel Kay
The Traitor Baru Cormorant — Seth Dickinson
The Thief — Megan Whalen Turner
The Descent of Man — Grayson Perry
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia — Paul Theroux
Simple Sabotage Field Manual — U.S. Office of Strategic Services
Business adventures — John Brooks
The Sherlockian — Graham Moore
Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell
Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian — Sherman Alexie
The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
Demons — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lock In — John Scalzi
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals — Immanuel Kant
Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation — Linda A. Hill
Titus Alone — Mervyn Peake
The Shadow at the Bottom of the World — Thomas Ligotti
The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn
Off to Be the Wizard — Scott Meyer

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