I love what NPR does with its end-of-year "Books We Love" page (https://apps.npr.org/best-books), and I wanted to build that for the HN community (as I get amazing book recs here).

Step 1 = Vote for your 3 favorite reads of 2024

Vote here -> https://shepherd.com/bboy/my-3-fav-reads/join?referrer_id=32...

(the referral ID is how I track that your vote goes toward HN, as I also do this for subreddits)

Step 2 = Browse everyone's picks!

Then, see what books the HN community loved the most this year: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024/hacker-news-community?referre...

You can break it down by published-in-2024 or by all-time.

And you can see all the picks by readers and break it down by genre here: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?referrer_id=329d2f

This was fun to build :).

The biggest challenge is the genre data publishers provide, they often mark fantasy books as science fiction.

If you have any problems, let me know ([email protected]).

Thanks, Ben