Books Like This MCP Server

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Books Like This is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 4 Oct 2026.

Books like one you enjoyed, a book's details and any film of it, and an author's books.

Uptime history 14 days of history

14 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

28 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 4 Oct 2026

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 29 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

29 Sep 3 tool descriptions were rewritten find_similar_books, get_author_books, get_book

What the code does

We read the source, 2 d ago · tools taken from the live server · rules ccca72095570

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs an external command publish.py:18

        r = subprocess.run([publisher, "publish"], cwd=d, capture_output=True, text=True)

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add bookslikethis --transport http https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/bookslikethis/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bookslikethis": {
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/bookslikethis/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.bookslikethis]
url = "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/bookslikethis/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bookslikethis": {
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/bookslikethis/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bookslikethis": {
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/bookslikethis/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

author

get_author_books

An author's books, newest first. For requests like "what has Andy Weir written?" or "Sally Rooney's books"

book

get_book

A book's details and any film or series made from it. For requests like "tell me about Project Hail Mary", "is The Name of the Wind being made into a film?", "how long is Dune?". Misspellings are fine. If screen_checked is false, the film and TV check could not run just now, so the film and TV status is unknown.

similar

find_similar_books

Books like one the user enjoyed, or for a genre. For requests like "books like The Martian" or "a good cosy mystery". Suggestions are English-language books for the same readers (picture book, children, young adult or adult), one per author and one per series. Well-read books of the same kind come first (picked_from: shelf, and because names the kind, for example "celebrated dystopian novels"), then books sharing specific subjects on Open Library (picked_from: subjects, and because lists the shared subjects). Novels never get self-help, textbooks, anthologies, study guides, category romance lines or explicit books as suggestions, and popular books are preferred over obscure ones. Other books by the same author are left out unless same_author=true. Give title or subject; common other titles work (1984, The Sorcerer's Stone)

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/bookslikethis/mcp	streamable-http	answering	23 ms	3 min ago

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Books Like This — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Books Like This do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_similar_books, get_author_books, get_book. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Books Like This working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 28 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Books Like This?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Books Like This need an API key?

No. Books Like This completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Books Like This?

It answers our handshake in 28 ms on average, which is faster than 99% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Books Like This open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.