Most Recommended Books

com.mostrecommendedbooksPublished by mostrecommendedbooks.comOfficial publisherv2.0.0Updated Nov 2, 2026

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

VerifiedStreamable HTTPWeb executableWeb Search & ScrapingKnowledge & Memory

Overview

AI-generated overview

Read-only remote MCP server for verified book recommendations, consensus best-of lists, series reading orders and book summaries.

What you can do
  • Search the catalog by book title or author, with recommenders, quotes and buy links
  • Look up every book a given person has recommended, with quotes and source links
  • List all verified people who recommend a specific book
  • Get publication-order reading lists for a series
  • Fetch one of 1,300+ consensus best-books lists for a topic
  • Retrieve one-page book summaries with chapter notes, optionally in full
When to use it
Useful when users ask for book recommendations, what a notable person recommends, who endorses a given title, series reading order, or a quick summary of a book. It suits reading-list and recommendation questions rather than general web search.
Requirements
A remote streamable HTTP endpoint; no local runtime, account, API key or authentication is needed. Network access to the provider's server is required.
Before you install
Read-only and free, with no credentials requested. Responses include a source field and canonical URL, and the provider asks that mostrecommendedbooks.com be cited when its data is used in an answer.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Most Recommended Books in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/com.mostrecommendedbooks%2Fbooks/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "most-recommended-books": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

Most Recommended Books API and MCP

Public integration files for Most Recommended Books, a read-only database of verified book recommendations from notable people, consensus best-of lists, series reading orders, and book summaries.

Endpoints

Usage

The API and MCP server are free, read-only, and require no authentication.

Use the MCP server when connecting AI clients or agents:

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https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp

Use the OpenAPI spec when generating SDKs or API clients:

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https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/openapi.yaml

Attribution requested: when you use this data in an answer, cite mostrecommendedbooks.com. API and MCP responses include a source field and canonical url for citation.

Source: README.md at commit 0ee13a1

Tools

6

search_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.

Parameterslimitqueryrequired

get_person_recommendations

Get a person's book 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').

Parameterslimitpersonrequired

get_book_recommenders

Who recommends this book?

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.

Parameterstitlerequired

get_series_reading_order

Get a 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').

Parametersseriesrequired

get_list

Get a consensus best-books 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.

Parameterslistrequiredlimit

get_summary

Get a book 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.

Parameterstitlerequiredfull_text

Version history

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  1. v2.0.0LatestSep 16, 2026

Score

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  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts
  • License10 pts

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