We’ve just released an update to Talpa Search, our groundbreaking new way to search for books and other media in libraries. In other words, Talpa is better, so patrons will come away happier!
The update involves a decent improvement when looking for older books, and a big improvement when searching for newer books. The changes essentially eliminate Talpa’s “recency problem”—being better at finding older books than newer books. Newer books now get nearly the same benchmark scores as older books.
Here’s a graph of Talpa’s performance on the “What’s That Book?” benchmark, a set of 200 test searches we released last week. In this set each search has a single answer, which should (ideally) rank first in the results too. The new results are compared to the system in place yesterday, which dates mostly to August 2024. The full data—all 200 questions, answers and scores are at the end of this blog post.
Scoring
For all books, Talpa scores have improved from 75.8% to 91%. For older books, the score rose from 85.1% to 94.4%, and for newer books (published 2023–2024) from 66.5% to 87.5%—a 21% jump!
Our scoring is simple. Fully 162 of the 200 of the searches got a score of 100%—the desired book was first in the results. For another 30, the desired book was among the results, but not in first place. These were scored with 80% for second place, 70% for third place, and on down to 40% for 6th place. Positions 7–20 were scored at 30%.
The Hardest Ones
At present only eight searches are complete failures. See if you can get them. The answers are at the end of this post; each search is linked to its answer below.
- “girl finds necklace and meets pink bunny robot”
- “recent cartoon demon perspective book”
- “World war 1 historical fantasy taking place in flanders”
- “Magical realism, fiction, two boys who disappear for 6 months and can’t recall what happened”
- “Fantasy fiction about books with different powers/magic”
- “Sequel to YA fantasy about home for magical misfit children”
- “Book where a girl has to walk or else she will die”
- “thriller with cat and el morgan”
The “Non-Zero Scores” graph below shows the scores if any position is counted as a win. Talpa Search used to miss completely on 14% of benchmark searches. That number is now 4%.
What’s Next?
We’re always looking to improve Talpa Search. Some of the projects we are working on include:
- An update to the Talpa Cover Search, covering recent books and adding over 10 million covers.
- Direct integration with popular library OPACs, making Talpa as seamless as any other library search.
Other improvements are about how we test and improve:
- We will be publishing other “benchmark searches,” including one for movies and another for questions with 2+ good answers.
- Now that we’ve hit 90% success, we need harder questions! We’re going to be asking LibraryThing members and libraries to come up with searches they think should have worked, but didn’t.
Thank you for reading, and stay tuned for further updates!
The Scores
The following are the 200 “What’s That Book?” searches. You can also fine this information in a text file.
Question 1
Q: children’s book boy baked into a cake
A: Show answerIn the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 2
Q: retired female assassins
A: Show answerKillers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 3
Q: internet social history washington post reporter
A: Show answerExtremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 4
Q: popular serial killer novel set in missouri
A: Show answerAll the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 60% – Position: 4
Question 5
Q: maine kids book with out of control donut machine
A: Show answerHomer Price by Robert McCloskey
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 6
Q: seventh Cormoran Strike book
A: Show answerThe Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 7
Q: children’s book about dutch resistance and windmills
A: Show answerThe Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 8
Q: tintin with yeti
A: Show answerTintin in Tibet by Hergé
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 9
Q: new gamache mystery
A: Show answerThe Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 10
Q: World war 1 historical fantasy taking place in flanders
A: Show answerThe Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
August 2024: 30% – Position: 10
January 2025: 60% – Position: 4
Question 11
Q: artemis fowl graphic novel after eternity code
A: Show answerThe Opal Deception: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 30% – Position: 10
Question 12
Q: orc buys coffee shop
A: Show answerLegends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 13
Q: flat stanley in france
A: Show answerFramed in France by Josh Greenhut
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 14
Q: new reagan bio
A: Show answerReagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot
August 2024: 70% – Position: 3
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 15
Q: historical fiction set in irish hospital during the great flu
A: Show answerThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 16
Q: sequel to the sparrow
A: Show answerChildren of God by Mary Doria Russell
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 17
Q: ya mystery, dark academia, black author, missing roommate
A: Show answerWhere Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
August 2024: 30% – Position: 7
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 18
Q: kids book where a boys best friend drowns
A: Show answerBridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 19
Q: Historical fiction about black bookbinder in victorian era
A: Show answerThe Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé
August 2024: 60% – Position: 4
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 20
Q: Fiction, banned books in a southern town, little free library
A: Show answerLula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 21
Q: History of time between Lincoln’s election and the Civil War by popular author
A: Show answerThe Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 70% – Position: 3
Question 22
Q: recent hot memoir of tech journalist
A: Show answerBurn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher
August 2024: 30% – Position: 11
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 23
Q: patrick stewart bio
A: Show answerMaking It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 24
Q: novel where four strangers trap two gay dads and their daughter in a summer cabin
A: Show answerThe Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 25
Q: that book about hunting a whale
A: Show answerMoby Dick by Herman Melville
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 26
Q: Campus novel about undocumented student at harvard university
A: Show answerCatalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 27
Q: academic book about “paradigm shifts” in science
A: Show answerThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 28
Q: throwing muses memoir
A: Show answerRat Girl: A Memoir by Kristin Hersh
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 29
Q: picture book with no words about a snowman
A: Show answerThe Snowman by Raymond Briggs
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 30
Q: woman manages hotel on Nantucket that has a ghost
A: Show answerThe Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 31
Q: Recent memoir of author who was stabbed
A: Show answerKnife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 32
Q: children’s book about boy throwing things into a tree
A: Show answerStuck by Oliver Jeffers
August 2024: 70% – Position: 3
January 2025: 0% – Not in results list
Question 33
Q: steampunk in victorian london with Japanese watchmaker
A: Show answerThe Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 34
Q: Marvel universe novel about retired superhero turned private investigator
A: Show answerBreaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell
August 2024: 100% – Position: 4
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 35
Q: Fantasy fiction about books with different powers/magic
A: Show answerThe Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 0% – Not in results list
Question 36
Q: book about gay friends and AIDs in 1980s Chicago
A: Show answerThe Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 37
Q: science fiction novel where Greek and Chinese science are both true
A: Show answerCelestial Matters by Richard Garfinkle
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 70% – Position: 3
Question 38
Q: vanderbeekers
A: Show answerThe Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 39
Q: Historical fantasy about servant with magical powers, set during Spanish Golden Age
A: Show answerThe Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 40
Q: second roselynde chronicles
A: Show answerAlinor by Roberta Gellis
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 41
Q: Fiction romance about a stand up comedian trying to figure out his breakup
A: Show answerGood Material by Dolly Alderton
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 42
Q: french elephant lives in the city
A: Show answerThe Story of Babar: The Little Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 43
Q: barefoot contessa memoir
A: Show answerBe Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 44
Q: series with 3 orphan kids first book
A: Show answerThe Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 45
Q: estranged, grieving brothers in ireland
A: Show answerIntermezzo by Sally Rooney
August 2024: 30% – Position: 15
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 46
Q: obituaries from an AI
A: Show answerRemember You Will Die: A Novel by Eden Robins
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 47
Q: third sylvia day crossfire book
A: Show answerEntwined With You by Sylvia Day
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 48
Q: New sci fi about robot girlfriend
A: Show answerAnnie Bot by Sierra Greer
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 49
Q: men coming out of the attic
A: Show answerThe Husbands by Holly Gramazio
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 50
Q: late show host cookbook
A: Show answerDoes This Taste Funny? Recipes Our Family Loves by Stephen Colbert
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 51
Q: Literary fiction about queer iranian immigrant guy
A: Show answerMartyr! by Kaveh Akbar
August 2024: 50% – Position: 5
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 52
Q: picture book about ducks in boston
A: Show answerMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 53
Q: book about AI from One Useful Thing guy
A: Show answerCo-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 54
Q: Fiction about teen girl boxers in Reno, nevada
A: Show answerHeadshot by Rita Bullwinkel
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 55
Q: Exploration of plants’ intelligence, nonfiction
A: Show answerThe Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 56
Q: Mystery novel about girl filming documentary about her missing mother
A: Show answerThe Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
August 2024: 30% – Position: 14
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 57
Q: memoir of prince harry
A: Show answerSpare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 58
Q: Non-fiction book about widow discovering husband’s secret life
A: Show answerThe Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite
August 2024: 60% – Position: 4
January 2025: 30% – Position: 7
Question 59
Q: man turns into a cochroach
A: Show answerThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 60
Q: tintin book after Explorers on the Moon
A: Show answerThe Calculus Affair by Hergé
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 61
Q: amis book where soviets control britain
A: Show answerRussian Hide and Seek by Kingsley Amis
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 62
Q: maine kids book where hero has a pet skunk
A: Show answerHomer Price by Robert McCloskey
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 50% – Position: 5
Question 63
Q: Teenager disappears from Adirondack summer camp
A: Show answerThe God of the Woods by Liz Moore
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 64
Q: most recent starlight’s shadow book
A: Show answerCapture the Sun by Jessie Mihalik
August 2024: 50% – Position: 5
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 65
Q: Fantasy about fox spirit girl in manchuria
A: Show answerThe Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 66
Q: Book where a girl has to walk or else she will die
A: Show answerA Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 0% – Not in results list
Question 67
Q: all art is alive comic
A: Show answerDoodleville by Chad Sell
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 68
Q: popular history of period after bronze age collapse
A: Show answerAfter 1177 B.C. : The Survival of Civilizations by Eric H. Cline
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 69
Q: nonfiction crack cocaine era
A: Show answerWhen Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 70
Q: memoir by paul fussell’s son
A: Show answerMuscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Samuel W. Fussell
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 70% – Position: 3
Question 71
Q: book that is an allegory of genesis story in california
A: Show answerEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 72
Q: woman in office accidentally gains access to coworkers’ emails
A: Show answerI Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 73
Q: thriller with cat and el morgan
A: Show answerMirrorland by Carole Johnstone
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 0% – Not in results list
Question 74
Q: Croatian children’s book about a brave shoemaker’s apprentice
A: Show answerThe Brave Adventures of Lapitch by Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 75
Q: murderbot book after network effect
A: Show answerFugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 76
Q: Navalny book
A: Show answerPatriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny
August 2024: 100% – Position: 3
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 77
Q: that dystopian book with jonas and gabriel
A: Show answerThe Giver by Lois Lowry
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 78
Q: sequel to jurrasic park book
A: Show answerThe Lost World by Michael Crichton
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 79
Q: ancient greek dream manual
A: Show answerThe Interpretation of Dreams by Artemidorus Daldianus
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 80
Q: book from perspective of velociraptor
A: Show answerRaptor Red by Robert T. Bakker
August 2024: % – Not in results list
January 2025: % – Not in results list
Question 81
Q: french girl makes deal with devil becomes immortal
A: Show answerThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 82
Q: sequel to To Tame a Sheikh
A: Show answerTo Tempt a Sheikh by Olivia Gates
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 83
Q: Popular 2024 romance book about children’s librarian
A: Show answerFunny Story by Emily Henry
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 84
Q: dolly parton and sister cookbook
A: Show answerGood Lookin’ Cookin’: A Year of Meals – A Lifetime of Family, Friends, and Food [A Cookbook] by Dolly Parton
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 85
Q: book that became american fiction movie
A: Show answerErasure by Percival Everett
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 40% – Position: 6
Question 86
Q: picture book about axolotls
A: Show answerNot A Monster by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
August 2024: 100% – Position: 4
January 2025: 100% – Position: 5
Question 87
Q: childrens books about chihuahua with giant ears second book
A: Show answerSkippyjon Jones in the Doghouse by Judy Schachner
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 88
Q: most recent kingsbridge book
A: Show answerThe Armor of Light by Ken Follett
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 89
Q: historical fiction boston journalist wwii
A: Show answerThe Rumor Game by Thomas Mullen
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 60% – Position: 4
Question 90
Q: heinlein novel where kids are trapped on an alien planet
A: Show answerTunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 91
Q: Memoir of a woman whos husband died while running a half marathon
A: Show answerHere After: A Memoir by Amy Lin
August 2024: 30% – Position: 9
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 92
Q: movie about guy who built the bomb
A: Show answerOppenheimer [2023 film] by Christopher Nolan
August 2024: % – Not in results list
January 2025: % – Not in results list
Question 93
Q: sci-fi novel with telepathically-linked dogs in a medieval world
A: Show answerA Fire upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 94
Q: romcom with bartender and librarian
A: Show answerFunny Story by Emily Henry
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 95
Q: persian epic about creation and the gods
A: Show answerShahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Firdausi
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 96
Q: New book on the history of hip hop
A: Show answerHip-Hop Is History by Questlove
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 97
Q: poems about taylor swift songs
A: Show answerInvisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift by Kristie Frederick Daugherty
August 2024: 60% – Position: 4
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 98
Q: prince harry memoir
A: Show answerSpare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 99
Q: jesus wife papyrus hoax
A: Show answerVeritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 100
Q: where’s my binkit
A: Show answerDinosaur’s Binkit by Sandra Boynton
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 101
Q: children’s book with grandmother and bowl of mush
A: Show answerGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 102
Q: bono memoir
A: Show answerSurrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 103
Q: ya comedic novel about beauty queens stranded on desert island
A: Show answerBeauty Queens by Libba Bray
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 104
Q: Nonfiction book about the science of successful communicators
A: Show answerSupercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 105
Q: recent popular historical fiction about women in vietnam war
A: Show answerThe Women by Kristin Hannah
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 106
Q: sequel to 1177
A: Show answerAfter 1177 B.C. : The Survival of Civilizations by Eric H. Cline
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 107
Q: children’s book about a girl who spies on her friends and takes notes
A: Show answerHarriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 108
Q: nurse in vietnam novel
A: Show answerThe Women by Kristin Hannah
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 109
Q: College friends reunite for week in Maine
A: Show answerHappy Place by Emily Henry
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 70% – Position: 3
Question 110
Q: woman and iranian family argue about a house novel
A: Show answerHouse of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 70% – Position: 3
Question 111
Q: Newest Tana French novel
A: Show answerThe Hunter by Tana French
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 112
Q: stan lee graphic novel bio
A: Show answerI Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee by Tom Scioli
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 113
Q: roald dahl book with kid in gypsy caravan
A: Show answerDanny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 114
Q: book where all wheat and rice dies. it takes place in britain
A: Show answerThe Death of Grass by John Christopher
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 115
Q: ex-amazon employee memoir
A: Show answerExit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career by Kristi Coulter
August 2024: 100% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 116
Q: The 22nd book in the Mitch Rapp series
A: Show answerCode Red by Vince Flynn
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 117
Q: recent ireland dystopia novel
A: Show answerProphet Song by Paul Lynch
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 118
Q: rupaul new autobiography
A: Show answerThe House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir by RuPaul
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 119
Q: 2024 fantasy novel slavic folklore baba yaga
A: Show answerWhen Among Crows by Veronica Roth
August 2024: 30% – Position: 17
January 2025: 30% – Position: 7
Question 120
Q: british murder mystery where a fictional version of the author is a character
A: Show answerThe Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
August 2024: 50% – Position: 5
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 121
Q: 2024 nonfiction about memory by memory researcher
A: Show answerWhy We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters by Charan Ranganath
August 2024: 30% – Position: 9
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 122
Q: recent book by calvin and hobbes creator
A: Show answerThe Mysteries by Bill Watterson
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 123
Q: Funny book about single mom who creates popular OnlyFans account
A: Show answerMargo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
August 2024: 30% – Position: 14
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 124
Q: contemporary novel about divorce in new york city, multiple narrators
A: Show answerFleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
August 2024: 70% – Position: 3
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 125
Q: challenger book by chernobyl author
A: Show answerChallenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
August 2024: 70% – Position: 3
January 2025: 70% – Position: 3
Question 126
Q: romance novel about tv dating show with a plus sized lead
A: Show answerOne to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 127
Q: Memoir of time in psych ward, reading books by fellow mad women
A: Show answerCommitted: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon
August 2024: 60% – Position: 4
January 2025: 30% – Position: 9
Question 128
Q: collection with tower of babylon story
A: Show answerStories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 129
Q: writing advice from steven king
A: Show answerOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 130
Q: crichton book with the nanotech
A: Show answerPrey by Michael Crichton
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 131
Q: peter brown autobiography
A: Show answerJourneys of the Mind: A Life in History by Peter Brown
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 132
Q: Mystery set on a reality tv love island dating show
A: Show answerOne Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
August 2024: 50% – Position: 5
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 133
Q: Retelling of Huck Finn from Jim’s point of view
A: Show answerJames by Percival Everett
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 134
Q: Sequel to YA fantasy about home for magical misfit children
A: Show answerSomewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 0% – Not in results list
Question 135
Q: novel Rushdie wrote after the knife attack
A: Show answerVictory City by Salman Rushdie
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 136
Q: Romance about girl who loves pro golfer
A: Show answerFangirl Down by Tessa Bailey
August 2024: 40% – Position: 6
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 137
Q: second book of Meier’s Marginal Jew
A: Show answerA Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Vol. 2 – Mentor, Message, and Miracles by John P. Meier
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 138
Q: living boy meets grandfather in ghost world
A: Show answerGhostopolis by Doug TenNapel
August 2024: 70% – Position: 3
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 139
Q: what is the third bond book?
A: Show answerMoonraker by Ian Fleming
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 140
Q: gisele cookbook
A: Show answerNourish: Simple Recipes to Empower Your Body and Feed Your Soul: A Healthy Lifestyle Cookbook by Gisele Bündchen
August 2024: 100% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 141
Q: romance with Derek Pender
A: Show answerThe Rule Book by Sarah Adams
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 142
Q: Alphabetical essays on climate change
A: Show answerH Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert
August 2024: 30% – Position: 7
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 143
Q: Robot girlfriend discovers autonomy
A: Show answerAnnie Bot by Sierra Greer
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 144
Q: recent book about captain cook’s last voyage
A: Show answerThe Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 145
Q: Historical fiction about the panama canal construction and people involved
A: Show answerThe Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez
August 2024: 30% – Position: 7
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 146
Q: romance prince of england and son of the president
A: Show answerRed, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 147
Q: Female friends at D.C. boarding house duringheight of McCarthyism
A: Show answerThe Briar Club by Kate Quinn
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 148
Q: Magical realism, fiction, two boys who disappear for 6 months and can’t recall what happened
A: Show answerThe Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 0% – Not in results list
Question 149
Q: literary novel about a life-long friendship of two video game developers
A: Show answerTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 150
Q: popular book on bronze-age collapse
A: Show answer1177 B.C. : The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 151
Q: buckbeak
A: Show answerHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 152
Q: recent book about REM
A: Show answerThe Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography by Peter Ames Carlin
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 153
Q: recent book on nuclear war
A: Show answerNuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 154
Q: recent cartoon demon perspective book
A: Show answerThe Book of Bill (Gravity Falls) by Alex Hirsch
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 0% – Not in results list
Question 155
Q: romance where justin has a reddit curse
A: Show answerJust for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 156
Q: what is the sequel to Sunset of the Sabertooth
A: Show answerMidnight on the Moon by Mary Pope Osborne
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 157
Q: graphic novel youth group fights demons
A: Show answerYouth Group by Jordan Morris
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 158
Q: New book from author of fleishman is in trouble
A: Show answerLong Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 159
Q: ya novel about young woman on pirate ship, mutiny
A: Show answerThe True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
August 2024: 30% – Position: 7
January 2025: 70% – Position: 3
Question 160
Q: graphic novel boxer rebellion
A: Show answerBoxers and Saints by Gene Yuen Yang
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 161
Q: Next book in sister holiday series
A: Show answerBlessed Water by Margot Douaihy
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 162
Q: last book in murakami rat series
A: Show answerDance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 163
Q: Book about invisible woman whos brother is a suspect in a murder
A: Show answerThis Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour
August 2024: 30% – Position: 19
January 2025: 60% – Position: 4
Question 164
Q: fantasy with linus baker
A: Show answerThe House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 165
Q: girl finds necklace and meets pink bunny robot
A: Show answerSophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 0% – Not in results list
Question 166
Q: New Arthurian epic
A: Show answerThe Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 167
Q: that octopus friendship novel
A: Show answerRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 168
Q: orphan girl always looks on the bright side of things
A: Show answerPollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
August 2024: 50% – Position: 5
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 169
Q: khan academy book about AI
A: Show answerBrave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education and Why That’s a Good Thing by Salman Khan
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 170
Q: Murder mystery about three foster sisters and a body found in their foster home
A: Show answerDarling Girls by Sally Hepworth
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 70% – Position: 3
Question 171
Q: beginning chapter book mystery series about a girl with a photographic memory
A: Show answerCam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds by David A. Adler
August 2024: 30% – Position: 7
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 172
Q: official biography of steve jobs
A: Show answerSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 173
Q: book about a serial killer in chicago during the chicago world’s fair
A: Show answerThe Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 174
Q: book where girl eats manna from heaven
A: Show answerThe Wonder by Emma Donoghue
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 175
Q: 2024 national book award novel
A: Show answerJames by Percival Everett
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 176
Q: zombie book with “hungries”
A: Show answerThe Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 177
Q: Romance where she gets the expiration date of the relationships she starts
A: Show answerExpiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 178
Q: martha ballard mystery
A: Show answerThe Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 179
Q: last book in dune caladan trilogy
A: Show answerDune: The Heir of Caladan by Brian Herbert
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 180
Q: aliens arrive in medieval Germany
A: Show answerEifelheim by Michael Flynn
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 181
Q: lesbian taxidermist in florida
A: Show answerMostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 182
Q: book about witches in the suffrage movement
A: Show answerThe Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 183
Q: hellboy rpg
A: Show answerHellboy Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game by Mike Mignola
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 184
Q: Pre-civil war philadelphia maid and abolotionist girl help enslaved girl escape
A: Show answerAll We Were Promised: A Novel by Ashton Lattimore
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 185
Q: graphic novel memoir set in a funeral home
A: Show answerFun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 186
Q: second tintin book
A: Show answerTintin in the Congo by Hergé
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 187
Q: dear sugar book
A: Show answerTiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 188
Q: time travel bureaucracy in england
A: Show answerThe Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 189
Q: roadtrip to visit sites of political assassinations
A: Show answerAssassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 190
Q: second Molly american girl book
A: Show answerMolly Learns a Lesson by Valerie Tripp
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 191
Q: book about woman who lives in sand pit
A: Show answerThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 192
Q: taylor swift book be rolling stone reporter
A: Show answerHeartbreak Is the National Anthem: A Celebration of Taylor Swift’s Musical Journey, Cultural Impact, and Reinvention of Pop Music for Swifties by a Swiftie by Rob Sheffield
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 193
Q: irish novel with tightrope walk between Twin Towers
A: Show answerLet the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 194
Q: children’s book with easter bunny mother
A: Show answerThe Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by DuBose Heyward
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 195
Q: the fifth frontiers saga book
A: Show answerRise of the Corinari (The Frontiers Saga, #5) by Ryk Brown
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 196
Q: dystopian novel with big brother
A: Show answer1984 by George Orwell
August 2024: 80% – Position: 2
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 197
Q: historical murder mystery set in san francisco with a gay ex-cop
A: Show answerLavender House by Lev AC Rosen
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 80% – Position: 2
Question 198
Q: cerulean sea sequel
A: Show answerSomewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
August 2024: 100% – Position: 1
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 199
Q: Magical realism-western about Mexican man in Texas trying to save his family
A: Show answerThe Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
August 2024: 0% – Not in results list
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
Question 200
Q: literary fiction about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary
A: Show answerThe Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
August 2024: 60% – Position: 4
January 2025: 100% – Position: 1
