Books like Extraordinary Chickens

This book has been haunting me for at least three years. During that time, goodreads has recommended it to me literally hundreds of times. Once I realised how frequently it was popping up, I started taking screenshots. Here is a selection from my collection: No other review of 'Extraordinary Chickens' mentions having this bizarre experience. So what the hell is going on here? Why is goodreads so intent on me learning about chickens? Could the recommendation algorithm be confused by my erratic non-fiction reading? Presumably it uses machine learning, so am I an adversarial example? I've been posting the screenshots above on twitter, to share my puzzlement. After years of ignoring goodreads earnest entreaties, a friend got me a copy of 'Extraordinary Chickens' for Christmas. I absolutely hooted when I opened the parcel.Having read the book, I now feel better informed about fancy chickens, yet this enlightenment seems disproportionately limited compared with the effort goodreads put into getting me to read it. There certainly are many spectacular specimens in there, some with 20ft tail feathers, others with antlers; some alarmingly large, others bafflingly small. Several look like the angry dinosaurs they are, while others resemble bored pheasants or discarded wigs. I was not previously aware that chickens could have horns, beards, or sideburns. The brief accompanying text is endearing, despite the rather unfortunate choice of boldface for the main text but not for headings. An idiosyncratic A to Z of chicken breeds is included, with amusing details. The photographer describes the experience of photographing extraordinary chickens as follows: Although some of my subjects were distinctly restless when asked to be models, most amazingly co-operative and patient. Only a small percentage flew away and had to be retrieved. None of them attempted to peck at me, and I suffered no wounds from beaks or claws. It wasn't unusual for birds to leave unwelcome souvenirs on my studio table, although for some reason this did not happen in Britain, where the chickens were remarkably well mannered. Joking aside, the photographs are beautiful and chicken plumage can be more striking than I had realised. The question is, now that goodreads has successfully peer-pressured me into reading 'Extraordinary Chickens' after a lengthy campaign, whatever will it recommend now? It has told me to read the American Constitution several times recently, so perhaps that's the new chicken portraits. Despite the vast amount of data on my reading habits that goodreads must have, I get sensible recommendations extremely rarely. Incredibly, the recommendation engine doesn't even seem to have identified that I like sci-fi. I must admit, I take a certain amount of pleasure in inadvertently stymying the algorithm. In your face, amazon, my reading tastes are beyond the ken of your big data analytics!