Most Recommended Books
Read-only MCP server for verified book recommendations and reading lists. Ask who recommends a book, what books a public figure recommends, consensus best-of lists, series reading orders, and book summaries. No authentication required.
How to connect
Same URL, five paste targets. Ready surface · Auth required. Not a safe-to-install badge. Handshake this URL
Paste into Settings → MCP or .cursor/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"mostrecommendedbooks-books": {
"url": "https://books--mostrecommendedbooks.run.tools"
}
}
}
Paste into .vscode/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"mostrecommendedbooks-books": {
"url": "https://books--mostrecommendedbooks.run.tools"
}
}
}
Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web. Paste the URL. Enable in a new chat.
Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web
Name: Most Recommended Books
URL: https://books--mostrecommendedbooks.run.tools
OAuth only if this server requires it.
Save, start a new chat, enable the connector.
Developer mode custom connector. ChatGPT cannot reach localhost.
Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode ON
Create custom connector
Name: Most Recommended Books
MCP server URL: https://books--mostrecommendedbooks.run.tools
Auth: none unless the server requires OAuth
New chat → + → Developer mode → enable the connector
Register the HTTPS URL, then claude mcp list.
claude mcp add --transport http mostrecommendedbooks-books \
https://books--mostrecommendedbooks.run.tools
Pass on session/new as mcpServers when the agent advertised HTTP MCP.
[
{
"type": "http",
"name": "mostrecommendedbooks-books",
"url": "https://books--mostrecommendedbooks.run.tools"
}
]
Paste into a README or docs site. The widget loads snippets from Influzer — still not a SAFE badge.
Same handshake clock as this listing (overlay / warm / seed; live tools/list only if that is missing). Indigo is live_ok, amber is auth_required, gray is unreachable. Not a SAFE badge. Stdio listings have no badge.
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Recipes using this server
No published recipes yet for this server.
Listing quality
Observable facts from our catalog and daily probe — not a safe-to-install badge.
- Surface
- Ready surface
- Auth gate
- Auth gate
- Tools source
- tools/list (live)
Observable catalog + probe facts — not a safe-to-install badge. How we verify.
Verification summary
Stored signals only. Not a safety score.
- Verification grade
- A (85)
- Last verified
- Status
- Auth required
- Response time
- 0 ms
- Auth
- Auth gate
- Transport
- http, HTTPS
- Tools indexed
- 6
- 30-day uptime
- 100% of 7 samples over 7 days
Probe history
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Tools
(6)-
search_booksSearch Most Recommended Books' human-curated catalog by book title or author name.
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get_person_recommendationsReturn every book a specific public figure has recommended, with verified quotes and original sources.
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get_book_recommendersReturn every verified person who recommends a given book, with quotes and original source URLs.
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get_series_reading_orderReturn the complete publication-order book list for a book series.
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get_listReturn one of MRB's consensus best-books lists, ranked by independent expert-source mentions.
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get_summaryReturn MRB's one-page summary of a book, optionally including complete chapter notes.
Tool source: tools/list (live) · last probed 2026-11-05