As you may recall, in a recent edition of our newsletter we talked about an AI-generated booklist that “hallucinated” a bunch of books that NEVER EXISTED, and then a bunch of major news outlets ran the booklist to help you fill your summer reading list.
No? You didn’t read that? Is it because you’re not signed up for our newsletter? Was the tone a little too snarky? I must admit, I was a bit upset.
Maybe more than a bit.
In retaliation…no, too strong…
In measured, calm response to this AI booklist nonsense, HPLD asked readers to add title to a NON-AI Summer Booklist, a Human Intelligence Booklist.
And you all came through!
Without further ado…well, okay, maybe one more slam: AI Summer Booklist? I’ll just file that in the circular filing cabinet, the one that has standing water in it and that flushes when I push a lever.
Without FURTHER further ado, here are the books you all recommended!
With a couple caveats:
These are books recommended by readers of our newsletter. I suspect, highly, that a few have been added by their authors. And because I respect the indie author hustle, I’m allowing it. BUT, this also means a few of these titles are not available at HPLD, so I’ve linked to them in Prospector, and when that’s not possible, in Worldcat, our interlibrary loan service.
These titles may not necessarily be available through interlibrary loan, however, you can get all the info you need to either purchase them or make a purchase request if you’d like!
