A personal book engine that learns from what you've read and what readers like you have loved. 121 books and growing — drawn from the Western canon, contemporary literary fiction, accessible classics, and great nonfiction.
Tell Discover three to five books you've read and how they landed. We blend that with the wider reading life of your school — what's being finished, what's being abandoned, what's quietly transforming people — and surface what you'd most want next, with a sentence explaining why.
You can keep your reading life private, share it anonymously with the community, or attribute it publicly. Defaults respect privacy.
Four lanes — pick one or wander between them. None is more "serious" than the others; great readers move across all four their whole lives.
The serious literary core. Shakespeare, Austen, Dostoevsky, Morrison. For when you want to read something that's mattered for a long time.
Books that take adolescence seriously. The Kite Runner, Persepolis, Speak, Pachinko. Where most readers find their entry into reading as an adult.
Books that reliably get reluctant readers reading. The Hunger Games, The Giver, Wonder. No shame here — the goal is a reading life.
Memoir, history, science, journalism, essay. Just Mercy, Educated, Sapiens, Born a Crime, Montaigne. The world, told straight.
We're trying to build something quieter and more honest than the big book social networks. The questions we'll ask aren't "rate this out of five." They're things like: What sentence from this book won't leave your head? Who would you give it to, and what would you say? What did you believe before reading it that you believe differently now? Books leave a mark — Discover is a place to track that.
Built for serious teen readers and their teachers. Part of the GradeWise Library.