Anything similar to the Letterboxd top 500?
I want to find a list of book recommendations similar to the Letterboxd top 500
I know this discussion has been had before, but I was trying to figure out if there was an app like Letterboxd for books. A lot of people recommend Storygraph, Fable, and even Goodreads, but I think it was missing the mark.
The most talked about (and obvious) reason it missed the mark was the lack of funny one-liner comments and amazing UI that is so accessible and perfect. I find that Fable is really hard to enjoy the comments, especially since they're sorted like a group chat as opposed to the most liked and engaged with reviews.
However, the thing I find myself missing most is the lack of a pretentious top 500 list as they have on Letterboxd. It's a list composed without pure bias for classics, without bias for blockbusters, and pure love for filmmaking. It's cinephile at its purest. But do we really have a rating site like that for books?
I mean, the Goodreads top books are purely made for the catchiest new fantasy series and the most popular Booktok titles. Don't get me wrong, I love some of those books, but it doesn't feel like it's made by writers, bibliophiles, professors and students in writing/story-related degrees in the way that Letterboxd does.
I think this is probably a super common feeling, but so far, there's been nothing that quite fills this need for so many of us. Somebody's got to make a Letterboxd for books at some point, just for the pretentious elitists to rate and make a definitive list of the best books (but also for those sweet, catchy one-liner movie reviews!)
Although one thing I will say is that it's probably harder to do with books than movies. Since people can watch most masterpiece movies, whereas it's impossible to read all the books out there, since they're so much longer and there's so many more of them.
What do you think? Is there an app out there that fills this void? Do you guys feel this as well?