In 2021 I finished 70 books, with an average rating of 4.24. It’s been a pretty awesome year and I’ve discovered a lot of new favourites. In no particular order, here were my top reads: Hostage of Empire series by S. C. Emmett Two queens, two concubines, six princes. Innumerable secret agendas.A single hidden blade. The imperial palace — full of ambitious royals, sly gossip and […]
Can you believe it’s September already? There are so many great books coming out this month and I’m excited to share them with you! 🙂 Fury of a Demon (Dragons of Terra, #3) by Brian Naslund The conclusion to the Dragons of Terra trilogy! I’m particularly excited to see how this one ends. This series is full of memorable characters, dragons, and a really interesting […]
Six of the top fantasy books releasing in August 2021. Several new series, a standalone, and the end to Dragons of Terra.
I know we’re just only halfway through 2021, but I’m already starting to get excited about the books releasing in 2022. There are some REALLY awesome ones, and I’m sure even more will pop up over the next few months. I’ve put together my top fantasy picks coming in 2022 (of what I’ve seen so far!), but I also want to share a few highlights […]
Since we first started building Bookhype, one of the challenges we faced was figuring out a way to accept book data form publishers, but also have the ability for site librarians to change that book data, without the publisher being able to change it back. Although you’d think the publishers would always send the most accurate, up-to-date information about the books they publish, sadly that’s […]
We’ve recently added new dedicated genre pages to Bookhype, which allows you to more easily find books within a genre you’re interested in. So far we have pages for: Fantasy Historical Mystery Romance Science Fiction Thriller … along with sub-genres within each of those. Soon we’ll be adding one for Young Adult as well. (I know, “Young Adult” isn’t really a genre; it’s an age […]
I’ve put together a list of some exciting science fiction and fantasy books coming out in the first half of 2021. We’ll come back in a few months for the second half of the year! Lore by Alexandra Bracken January 2021 Every seven years, the Agon begins. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals. They […]
We’ve been experimenting with a recommendation engine for a few weeks now, and recently we made it available to everyone! This has been an interesting project for us because it was our first experience with machine learning. We had a lot to learn, and will definitely continue to learn more as we improve the engine over time. How does it work? Our recommendation engine looks […]
This post may get a little technical in some places, but you might learn something about the world of book data! If you’ve ever been involved in a discussion about how subjectively bad some people think Goodreads is, whatever the reasons are, maybe because it’s slow, has bad recommendations, doesn’t get active development, or just simply because it’s Amazon owned – you may have seen […]
One of the first features I built for Bookhype was the ability to follow a series. This was important to me because it’s something I’ve been trying to do already on existing platforms, and I thought it would be amazing for Bookhype to do it properly. On Goodreads I have a shelf called series-to-continue. Any time I decide I want to “follow” a series, I […]
