Whichbook is a fantastic resource for readers. Instead of starting with book titles or authors, readers start with themselves. 'I want a book that is unpredictable, larger than life and a little bit sad' or 'I'd like a challenging book, with lots of sex that's also funny.'

If you're not good at remembering book titles, or if you are the sort of reader who likes to choose by browsing round a little and seeing what tempts you, whichbook is the perfect solution to help you find what you are looking for. Everyone has their favourite writers who can be trusted to deliver the goods. But there are thousands of books out there. One of those might satisfy you even more but how can you tell? Whichbook enables you to search for a book that up to now may only have existed in your own mind! Move the sliders to express what you’re looking for and see what comes up. Scroll down to see all the books which match your chosen sliders or click Find similar to see books which match the specific title most closely. If you don't fancy any of the books offered, change your choices and try again - there are millions of different individual permutations possible.

Every title on whichbook has been read by one of a changing team of 150 people who are drawn from libraries and literature organisations and come together to share training to create the entries. The ratings and comments are created by real readers who care about books.

In choosing titles for the site, we concentrate on the books people won’t find by themselves and go for the widest range possible. Books must be fiction or poetry, written or translated into English and published in the last 10 years. We don’t include the biggest bestsellers as everyone knows about them already (though sometimes we’ll have added a book before it became a bestseller!) We do include lots of intriguing and less well-known titles. If you’d like to suggest a book to be included please contact us.

Whichbook has 40-50,000 individual users every month. The site was completely redesigned in 2011 with lots more functionality - you can now save and share books and access the whole site from within Facebook. Whichbook was originally piloted with a grant from Arts Council England through the Society of Chief Librarians UK and was then further developed with funding from the Big Lottery. Since 2003 it has been entirely funded by Opening the Book.

The Ønskebok website was the Norwegian version of whichbook which ran from 2007-2011. It was built in partnership with ABM-utvikling and then managed by Aust-Agder library and culture development.

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Awards

Yahoo Pick of the Week September 2003 (click on logo for more details)	Web User Magazine Silver Award August 2003
Winner of a Visionary Design Award 2002 for outstanding efforts in ensuring websites are accessible to visually impaired people	Linksgiving.com Weekly Link Award (click on logo to view website)

Whichbook was chosen by Miles Mendoza as Literary Site of the Year 2003
on the Steve Wright Show on Radio 2.