Also, there's a site called fivebooks.com that has people who are knowledgeable about a topic recommend five books on that topic. There's a bunch for India. Source: 8 months ago
So there's this website called fivebooks where the premise is they get an expert in a specific domain and have them recommend five books to get a general overview/vibe of that domain. For example, here's one on the venetian empire and here's one on the best korean novels. Source: 10 months ago
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I discovered Five Books quite recently, and I love their lists. Have various authorities (people) share their lists of books makes a difference and gives it an edge over GoodReads (at least in this particular angle).
I love that various people are giving some hard time to GoodReads.