{"id":12326,"date":"2013-12-19T07:10:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=12326"},"modified":"2013-12-19T07:10:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:10:18","slug":"if-you-like-x-try-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=12326","title":{"rendered":"If You Like X, Try Y"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1997, we created our first Flying Pig XY Guide, a list of book recommendations in the format “If you liked X, try Y (and vice versa).” This was before search engines and online shopping and auto-generated suggestions. We’d never seen anything like it and thought it was a brilliant tool to help customers find books they might like. It was helpful to us (a handy guide across genres and age ranges) and customers loved it. The XY Guide has always been one of the most popular features of our annual book-recommendation catalog.
\nThis year, we had to bump the guide from our 16-page Pig-Tales (viewable and\/or downloadable copy here<\/a>) to make room for more (166) actual book reviews. So we made a separate little XY sheet matching some of our favorite 2013 titles with popular past books our customers have liked. We thought we would share it here at ShelfTalker. The pretty copy is viewable here<\/a>; the list is below. In years past, there were a lot more children’s book matches, but our customers were equally interested in XY ideas for their own reading, so now books for kids and adults share a page. If there’s interest, I’d be happy to post previous XY guides from years past. They are handy for gift ideas!
\nNow — I’d love to know, what XY matches would you add to this list?<\/span>
\nXY GUIDE FOR KIDS & TEENS\u00a0<\/b>
\nX: Jack Plank Tells Tales<\/em> by Natalie Babbitt
\nY: The Show Must Go On!<\/em> by Kate and M. Sarah Klise
\nX: Splendors and Glooms<\/em> by Laura Amy Schlitz
\nY: The Screaming Staircase<\/em> by Jonathan Stroud
\nX: Sisters Grimm<\/em> series by Michael Buckley
\nY: Hero\u2019s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom<\/em> series by Christopher Healy
\nX: Septimus Heap<\/em> series by Angie Sage
\nY:\u00a0Jinx<\/em> by Sage Blackwood
\nX: The Westing Game<\/em> by Ellen Raskin
\nY: Chasing Vermeer<\/em> by Blue Balliett
\nY: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello\u2019s Library<\/em> by Chris Grabenstein
\nX: Daughter of Smoke and Bone<\/em> by Laini Taylor
\nY: Devil and the Deep Blue Sea<\/em> by April Genevieve Tucholke
\nX: Graceling<\/em> by Kirsten Cashore
\nY: Assassin\u2019s Curse<\/em> by Cassandra Rose Clarke
\nX: The Lightning Thief<\/em>\u00a0 by Rick Riordan
\nY: Loki\u2019s Wolves<\/em> by K.L. Armstrong & M.A. Marr
\nX: Matched<\/em> by Ally Condie
\nY: The Selection<\/em> by Kiera Cass
\nY: Delirium<\/em> by Lauren Oliver
\nX: The Hunger Games<\/em> by Suzanne Collins
\nY: The Testing<\/em> by Joelle Charbonneau
\nX: Divergent<\/em> <\/em>by Veronica Roth
\nY: Legend<\/em> by Marie Lu
\nY: The Knife of Never Letting Go<\/em> by Patrick Ness
\nX: Alex Rider<\/em> series by Anthony Horowitz
\nY: I.Q.<\/em>\u00a0 series by Roland Smith
\nY: Cherub<\/em> series by Robert Muchamore
\nX: Artemis Fowl<\/em> by Eoin Colfer
\nY: Evil Genius<\/em> by Catherine Jinks
\nX: Life as We Knew It<\/em> by Susan Beth Pfeffer
\nY: The Roar<\/em> by Emma Clayton
\nY: The Carbon Diaries 2015<\/em> by Saci Lloyd
\nX: Grave Mercy<\/em> by R.L. LaFevers
\nY: Throne of Glass<\/em> by Sarah J. Maas
\nY: Shadow and Bone<\/em> by Leigh Bardugo
\nXY GUIDE FOR ADULTS<\/b>
\nX: The Ocean at the End of the Lane<\/em> by Neil Gaiman
\nY: Midwinterblood<\/em> by Marcus Sedgwick
\nY: Coraline<\/em> by Neil Gaiman
\nX: Orange Is the New Black<\/em> by Piper Kerman
\nY: Hear Me, See Me: Incarcerated Women Write<\/em> (VT incarcerated women)
\nX: Oliver Sacks\u2019s books
\nY: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves<\/em> by Stephen Grosz
\nX: Outliers<\/em> by Malcolm Gladwell
\nY: Give and Take<\/em> by Adam Grant
\nX: Shop Class as Soulcraft<\/em> by Matthew Crawford
\nY: Why We Make Things and Why It Matters<\/em> by Peter Korn
\nX: Special Topics in Calamity Physics<\/em> by Marisha Pessl
\nY: The Goldfinch<\/em> by Donna Tartt
\nX: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold<\/em> by John LeCarre
\nY: Red Sparrow<\/em> by Jason Matthews
\nX: In the Woods<\/em> by Tana French
\nY: Christine Falls<\/em> by Benjamin Black
\nX: The Other Boleyn Girl<\/em> by Philippa Gregory
\nY: Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em> by Elizabeth Freemantle
\nX: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can\u2019t Stop Talking<\/em> by Susan Cain
\nY: Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/em> by Daniel Kahneman
\nX: Unbroken<\/em> by Lauren Hillenbrand
\nY: Boys in the Boat<\/em> by Daniel James Brown
\nX: Flowers for Algernon<\/em> by Daniel Keyes
\nY: The Curiosity<\/em> by Stephen Kiernan
\nX: A Trick of the Light<\/em> by Louise Penny
\nY: Wicked Autumn<\/em> by G.M. Malliet
\nY: A Murder in Tuscany<\/em> by Christobel Kent
\nX: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society<\/em> by M.A. Shaffer and Annie Barrows
\nY: These Is My Words<\/em> by Nancy E. Turner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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