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Most Recommended Books MCP Server

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Most Recommended Books is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 4 Jul 2026.

Read-only MCP server for verified book recommendations and reading lists.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 85%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
443 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1
Stars
last commit 4 Jul 2026

What changed 6

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 27 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

27 Oct 6 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_book_recommenders, get_list, get_person_recommendations and 3 more

Most Recommended Books does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add books --transport http https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.books]
url = "https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "books": {
      "url": "https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "books": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

book
get_book_recommenders
Return every verified person who recommends a given book, each with their quote about it and a link to the original source. This is MRB's signature dataset — use it when a user asks 'who recommends Sapiens?', 'is Zero to One worth reading?', or wants social proof / expert opinions on a specific title. Accepts a title ('Sapiens') or author+title for disambiguation.
books
search_books
Search Most Recommended Books' human-curated catalog by book title or author name. Returns ranked matches with author, publication year, how many verified people recommend each book, the top recommenders, a sourced quote, and a buy link. Use this when a user asks about a specific book, an author's books, or wants recommendations matching a title they half-remember. For 'who recommends X?' prefer get_book_recommenders; for 'what does person X recommend?' prefer get_person_recommendations.
get
get_list
Return one of MRB's 1,300+ consensus 'best books' lists for a topic (startups, stoicism, finance, sci-fi…). Every book on a list was recommended by at least two independent expert sources and is ranked by how many sources mention it. Use this when a user asks for 'the best X books' and you want a ranking backed by multiple experts rather than one opinion. Accepts a topic name ('startup', 'personal finance') or MRB list slug.
person
get_person_recommendations
Return every book a specific person (entrepreneur, investor, author, celebrity…) has recommended, with their verified quote about each book and a link to the original source (interview, podcast, post). Use this when a user asks 'what books does Naval Ravikant recommend?', 'Tim Ferriss's favorite books', or wants reading habits of a specific public figure. Accepts a name ('Naval Ravikant') or MRB slug ('naval-ravikant').
series
get_series_reading_order
Return the complete publication-order book list for a book series — the order the author released them, including novellas and companion volumes where cataloged. Use this when a user asks 'what order do I read John Grisham?', 'Harry Potter books in order', or how many books a series has. Accepts a series or author name ('Jack Reacher', 'Brandon Sanderson').
summary
get_summary
Return MRB's one-page summary of a book: the overview plus chapter-by-chapter notes (~435 titles available). Use this when a user asks 'summarize Atomic Habits', 'what is Sapiens about?', or wants the key ideas without reading the book. Set full_text=true only when the user explicitly wants the complete chapter notes — they can be very long.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 363 ms 2 min ago

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Most Recommended Books — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Most Recommended Books do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_book_recommenders, get_list, get_person_recommendations, get_series_reading_order, get_summary, search_books. 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 Most Recommended Books working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 443 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Most Recommended Books?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Most Recommended Books need an API key?
No. Most Recommended Books completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Most Recommended Books?
It answers our handshake in 443 ms on average, which is faster than 29% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Most Recommended Books open source?
We cannot say either way: 1 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.