Nice site! I like the clean design and logical layout, but have some questions. Firstly you say it’s the top 3 books per author, but you ask for the top 5 in the “for authors” page? Which is it?
It seems you are asking them for the top 3/5 in a niche category? It’s not clear to me if you ask for books in the category or in general for 2023 or both. For example I saw one author giving a list of the top books on Leonardo da Vinci in 2023. This would make aggregation of limited value, and the first thing I am presented with is a list of books which have reached some kind of consensus amongst authors, but the lack of consensus was quite surprising before I found out how it worked!
I think there is a lot of value in getting an author's consensus of best reads, and then maybe secondarily including books from a niche interest. This would be a value-add for the author too, since there is more diversity of books.
Nice project, I wish you the best of luck with it.
The first is a 5 book list where an author/expert recommends 5 books around a theme, topic, or mood. I've got 10,000 of those on the website that I have done with authors over the last 2.5 years. This one has nothing to do with the best books of the year and is an entirely different setup.
I just added this "favorite 3 reads" of the year, and that is where they pick their favorite 3 reads from the last 12 months. So I take their reads and then try to classify it to these categories on the best books of the year page (plus it fills into other parts of the website).
Does that make sense?
The idea is I am going to collect super high quality votes from authors, and then find cool ways to help readers connect with topics, genres, and eventually themes. And just kinda wander the virtual shelves. Slowly getting there...
It seems you are asking them for the top 3/5 in a niche category? It’s not clear to me if you ask for books in the category or in general for 2023 or both. For example I saw one author giving a list of the top books on Leonardo da Vinci in 2023. This would make aggregation of limited value, and the first thing I am presented with is a list of books which have reached some kind of consensus amongst authors, but the lack of consensus was quite surprising before I found out how it worked!
I think there is a lot of value in getting an author's consensus of best reads, and then maybe secondarily including books from a niche interest. This would be a value-add for the author too, since there is more diversity of books.
Nice project, I wish you the best of luck with it.