Personalized Book Recommendations with AI + GoodReads

I've been using AI to try and automate / optimize parts of my life from software engineering to exercise and diet.

My latest experiment has been to use AI to improve my book recommendations by turning my relatively stagnant GoodReads list of book reviews and ToRead backlog into something that can better inform my next reads.

System

• Export GoodReads data to CSV - Go to My Books -> Export
• Show them to your AI of choice
• Ask for the recommendations you want - what you're feeling, what you're looking for, etc

I like to have one nonfiction book and one fiction book going at the same time and give my AI access to my Obsidian vault / second brain so my prompt looks like this:

Based on my recent book reviews (last 1-2 years) and my recent daily notes / execution timeline give me 2 lists of 3 book recommendations for fiction and nonfiction reading. Make sure at least 1 rec from each list is from my ToReads list.

Next

We'll see how it goes - it surfaced some interesting ones I'm reading next:

• The Pathless Path
• Blood over Bright Haven

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