Every book came from someone.
Remember who.
The best book you read last year came from a person, not an algorithm. BookPocket is a reading list that remembers who recommended each book, and shows you whose picks you love.
- Person
- Podcast
- Publication
- Bookshop
- Video
Whoever it was, BookPocket gives them a name and a page of their own.
A screenshot of BookPocket’s dashboard on a phone: a greeting to the reader, four figures for the year (books read, average rating, currently reading, and how many sources), and the book being read now with its cover, the date it was started and the friend who recommended it. Beneath it, the chain showing that a friend recommended a book after hearing it on a podcast, which had picked it up from a magazine.
Who told you about that book?
Good books reach you from everywhere. A friend at book club, a podcast on the drive home, a review, a note on a bookshop shelf. You write the title down. By the time you read it, who told you and why is gone.
BookPocket keeps the who and the why with the book. Read for a while, and it can show you whose recommendations you love most.
The list you keep now
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Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel -
Piranesi Susanna Clarke -
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
Who sent these? Nobody wrote it down.
Your list in BookPocket
Your list in BookPocket
Ranked by how you rated each source's other books.
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Nadia Okonkwo said: Stick with it. Every timeline comes together at the end.Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel
Recommended by
Nadia Okonkwo
4.8
from 4 reads
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Piranesi Susanna Clarke
Recommended by
The Long Room
4.5
from 6 reads
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The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
Recommended by
The Ledger Review
4.2
from 3 reads
How it works
Follow one book from the day a friend mentions it to the day you know whose taste you share.
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Add the book
At book club, Nadia says you have to read Sea of Tranquility. Search 142,000 books and add it to My Books, or scan the barcode on her copy. If it isn’t here yet, searching goes and fetches it.
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Say who sent it
Name Nadia as the source, and note why she thinks you’ll love it. A podcast, a review or a bookshop works the same way. One field is enough to start.
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Learn whose taste you share
Rate the books you finish. Your sources are ranked by how you rated what they sent, and your unread books are ranked the same way. It runs on your own ratings, and every average says how many books went into it.
