Cristina Mella

Reading lists you can actually check

Search for anyone's favourite books and you'll find a dozen pages confidently listing titles with nothing behind them. No interview, no episode number, no link — just a list that got copied from another list. Half of it is wrong, and there's no way to tell which half.

This site works the other way round. A book gets listed here only when I can point to the moment the recommendation was actually made: the podcast, the interview, the published list, the post. That source sits next to every book on every page, so you can check it in one click.

Currently tracking 1741 sourced recommendations across 101 reading lists.