BookMatch

Search millions of books by title, author, or topic. Browse curated reading lists and discover your next favourite book.

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How BookMatch Works

BookMatch searches the Google Books API, Google’s catalogue of published books. Type a title, author, ISBN or topic and you get up to 12 matching editions with cover, authors, first publication year and the publisher’s description. Search results are cached for 24 hours, so popular queries load instantly.

Not sure what to look for? Browse 12 genres (each runs a Google Books subject search), or start from our hand-picked reading lists of classics, science fiction, non-fiction and thrillers. The blog covers reading habits, how recommendation algorithms work and world literature.

Featured Reading Lists

Classic Must-Reads
Essential novels that shaped literature.
  1. To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
  2. 1984 — George Orwell
  3. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
  4. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
  5. One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  6. Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Modern Sci-Fi Essentials
The science fiction that defines our era.
  1. Dune — Frank Herbert
  2. Neuromancer — William Gibson
  3. The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
  4. Foundation — Isaac Asimov
  5. The Martian — Andy Weir
  6. Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir