Which (user-submitted) book(s) will I like (enough to add to my recommendations list)?
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2026
77%
The Metropolitan Man
75%
Project Hail Mary
70%
Worth the Candle
69%
The Black Company
61%
Consider Phlebas
59%
Grog (by RW Krpoun)
59%
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
57%
House of Leaves
56%
HPMOR
52%
The Orphanage
51%
The Shadow in the East
50%
Red Famine
39%
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
39%
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I have a (somewhat incomplete) list of media (games, TV, movies, books, etc.) I have liked enough to recommend at https://osmarks.net/otherstuff/. You can submit recommendations (for books, short stories or other primarily-textual media only for now) for things for me to read as answers for this question. They will be resolved YES if I enjoy them and add them to my recommendations list. (I don't know whether the market mechanics allow this, but I will resolve to NO if I really dislike something and drop it assuming it is).

Note that a major risk here is that I don't actually get round to reading your recommendation because I have a very long queue and am easily distracted.

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You might want to use a bounty system for future markets like this - everyone has to put down M25 they won't get back for each option they add, so everyone will probably lose money overall. A prediction market would make more sense if it took tons of effort to evaluate each option and you wanted to prioritize evaluating the best ones

@CDBiddulph Wait, for some reason I thought your "recommendation list" was a list of books you wanted to read but hadn't necessarily read yet. Ignore the last sentence of that comment

If you don't end up reading something, does that option resolve N/A?

@TheBayesian I intend to extend the close date as long as I am alive and reading things, so this should not happen. Should I become unalive or incapable of reading, I suppose everything would resolve N/A.

I see you have Children of Time in your to-read list - I'm reading it right now and it's great

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars: hard sci-fi with good fantastical premise

Project Hail Mary: firm sci-fi, good thinking book

House of Leaves: a parody of academia in fiction form, postmodern but not too pretentious, influenced an enormous amount of media you enjoyed.

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I am unlikely to read nonfiction books or at least put them down on the list, but you could have inferred that from the contents of the list.

HPMOR

I have actually read HPMOR. I don't think I thought of it when I was writing the recommendations list for some reason, but it might be good enough to qualify, though I would probably want to skim-reread it before doing so.

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