For readers who know what they like

Your next favorite book, found before you even search.

ShelfLife is an AI curator built for urban fiction and romance readers. It learns your taste, tracks new releases, and delivers personalized picks while you sleep.

Goodreads gives you what's popular. BookTok gives you what's trending. Neither knows that you need a slow-burn street lit romance with a strong female lead and at least 400 pages. ShelfLife does.

01 / TASTE ENGINE

Reads you like a book

Tell it a few titles you love. ShelfLife maps your taste across tropes, tone, heat level, pacing, and narrative style to build a profile as specific as your reading preferences actually are.

02 / RELEASE RADAR

New drops, never missed

Monitors urban fiction, street lit, and romance releases daily. When something drops that matches your profile, you know before the algorithm does.

03 / HIDDEN GEMS

Beyond the bestseller list

Surfaces indie authors and under-the-radar titles that mainstream platforms bury. The books your favorite BookToker hasn't found yet.

04 / WEEKLY SHELF

Curated, not calculated

Every week, a personalized reading list lands in your inbox. Not a generic "readers also enjoyed" list. A curated selection that actually understands the difference between a Wahida Clark and a Zane.

55%
of readers prefer mood-based picks
20+
books per year for active readers
24/7
always curating, never sleeping

Every reader deserves a curator who actually gets what they read.

ShelfLife exists because the best book recommendations have always come from people who share your taste, not from algorithms trained on everyone else's. We're building the AI version of that friend who always knows exactly what you should read next.