Suggestions from an AI Book Critic
We convinced an AI model to think it's a book critic and asked it to dish out some recommendations.
It’s National Read a Book Day. To celebrate we fine-tuned a GPT-3 model to think it’s a Book Critic and asked it to generate some recommendations for you, dear reader.
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The following recommendations were generated by a 🤖 with no human editing.
Recent Fiction
1. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware: This psychological thriller follows a group of friends who reconnect after one of them commits suicide. As they try to uncover the truth about what happened, they realize that they may not know each other as well as they thought.
2. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones: This novel tells the story of a young couple, newly married, who are forced to confront the reality of incarceration when the husband is wrongfully convicted of a crime.
3. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee: This epic historical novel follows four generations of a Korean family who move to Japan in the early 1900s. The story spans decades and explores themes of love, loss, and identity.
4. The Power by Naomi Alderman: In a future world where women have the ability to generate electricity, they must grapple with the newfound power they hold over men. This novel is a speculative thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
5. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward: This National Book Award-winning novel tells the story of a young boy, Jojo, who is being raised by his grandparents in Mississippi. When his mother is released from prison, he goes on a road trip with her and his little sister to pick up his father from a work camp. Along the way, they confront the ghosts of their past.
Recent Non-Fiction
1. "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander: This book explores the history of racial discrimination in America, particularly in the criminal justice system, and how it has disproportionately impacted black and brown communities.
2. "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond: This book tells the stories of families struggling to keep a roof over their heads in some of America's poorest neighborhoods, and how the lack of affordable housing is entrenching poverty.
3. "The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border" by Francisco Cantu: This book is a personal account of Cantu's time working as a border patrol agent, and the moral dilemmas he faced in doing so.
4. "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" by Ta-Nehisi Coates: This book collects a series of essays Coates wrote during the Obama administration, about race, politics, and history in America.
5. "Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right" by Angela Nagle: This book looks at the rise of the "alt-right" and the role that online culture has played in normalizing far-right ideas.
