Every story has ancestors.
Name a book or a film you love. We'll show you what it owes, the works that shaped it, and what else those works went on to shape. That is what to read or watch next.
Add the author or director if the title is common. Or start with
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Two kinds of recommendation
- Ancestors
- The works your favorite was made from: the novel a film adapts, the poem a title is taken from, the book its author kept rereading.
- Cousins
- Other works descended from those same ancestors. They share a parent with what you love, which is a better reason to try one than a star rating.
Add more than one favorite and the works they lead to in common rise to the top. Rate what you read or watch and the list learns from it.
Or trace one work all the way back
The whole family tree behind a single book or film, generation by generation, back to the oldest literature we have. It takes two or three minutes to draw.
