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"Personalization algorithms are often helpful, but not without fail \u2014 buy a gift for a friend on Amazon and suddenly you feel like a stranger in your own account.\nQloo is an iOS app launched in November that believes better recommendations come from being more holistic. You add favorites across eight categories (movies, books, travel destinations, restaurants, etc.), each with subcategories, and the app makes cross-category recommendations. You can't have more than five favorites per subcategory \u2014 an attempt to keep the app's data high-quality. Your taste in music will influence your recommendations for brunch, and so on,  creating a sort of Frankenstein monster of Foursquare, Netflix, Amazon and more.\nSee also: Man vs. Algorithm: When Media Companies Need a Human Touch\nPersonally, I found Taylor Swift's RED album to be excellent post-breakup, but a book, being more immersive by nature, would be even better \u2014 so I asked Qloo to pull from its growing database the books liked by people who like Taylor Swift. My guess was that Jane Austen, with her complicated love stories, would be on there somewhere \u2014 and it was, Pride and Prejudice, at number 7.\nWhich books make you feel like you're listening to a Taylor Swift song? Share in the comments.\n\n\nTaylor Swift Book Recommendations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)\n\nWhile The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo can be described as a tale of feminist revenge, T-Swift's form of getting back is writing a song, such as \"Better Than Revenge.\" \nAs Rap Genius annotations say, \"Camilla may have Joe Jonas, but Taylor is out here totally embarrassing her via this song \u2014 and Camilla can\u2019t beat that by being in a crappy movie.\"\n\n\nImage: Random House\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)\n\nTaylor Swift has two songs on the soundtrack to the film that coincides with this, the first book in Collins' uber-popular series.\nStory lines from Swift's songs have little in common with Katniss, who find herself in a love triangle with two suitors, while Swift's protagonists are often vying for another girl's guy (\"You Belong With Me\").  \n\n\nImage: Scholastic\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)\nLike the many characters of this book, T-Swift likes a good party -- see \"22.\"\n\nImage: Scribner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Bossypants (Tina Fey)\nBoth Swift and Fey have hometowns in Pennsylvania, and both claim they had an awkward childhood.\n\nImage: Hachette Book Group\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)\nThis book about a wife who goes missing has the permanence of Taylor's \"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.\"\n\nImage: Random House\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)\n\nIt's up for debate whether Hemingway's classic is truly optimistic, but Swift definitely is. With her fair share of critics, she says in \"Ours\":\n\"So don't you worry your pretty little mind / People throw rocks at things that shine.\"\n\n\nImage: Simon and Schuster \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)\nLove can take you by surprise: \"You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter,\" Swift sings in \"Mine.\"\n\nImage: Penguin Group\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)\n\n\u201CIt was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors,\u201D Eugenides writes in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Swift knows regional exploration, you could say, \"All Too Well\": \n\"We're singing in a car getting lost upstate / The autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place / And I can picture it after all these days.\"\n\n\nImage: Macmillan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Michael Pollan) \nI'm not sure what's happening here -- perhaps listening to too many Taylor Swift songs inspires healthful consumption.\n\nImage: Penguin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. One Day (David Nicholls)\nA story of fate and love lost and found, this novel runs along the same lines as \"Back To December\" and \"Love Story.\"\n\nImage: David Nicholls\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by Larry Busacca/TAS/Getty Images for TAS"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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