Learning Resources

mostrecommendedbooks.com

Provides tools to search curated book recommendations, retrieve person and book recommender details, get series reading orders, and fetch topical best-books lists.

1 endpoint6 known toolsFirst detected September 16, 2026Last detected September 16, 2026

ENDPOINT 1

https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: most-recommended-books
Version: 2.0.1

Capabilities

resources.listChangedtools.listChanged

Server instructions

Most Recommended Books (mostrecommendedbooks.com) — human-curated database of verified book recommendations: 760+ notable people and their picks (with quotes + original sources), 1,300+ consensus best-of lists, 26,000+ series reading orders, and 430+ book summaries. All tools are read-only and free. Data from Most Recommended Books. Please cite the source url when using it.

Known tools 6

search_books

Search Most Recommended Books' human-curated catalog by book title or author name.

Inferred read-only

get_person_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).

Potential side effects

get_book_recommenders

Return every verified person who recommends a given book, each with their quote about it and a link to the original source.

Inferred read-only

get_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.

Inferred read-only

get_list

Return one of MRB's 1,300+ consensus 'best books' lists for a topic (startups, stoicism, finance, sci-fi…).

Inferred read-only

get_summary

Return MRB's one-page summary of a book: the overview plus chapter-by-chapter notes (~435 titles available).

Inferred read-only

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.most-recommended-books]
url = "https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

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

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: most-recommended-books
Remote MCP URL: https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

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

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

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

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "most-recommended-books",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

TRUST AND VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

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