New Year reading shortlist
Rank a supplied book shortlist against stated reading goals, time and preferences. Add your real source details before generating the draft. Paste this prompt into ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Grok, change the parts in brackets to suit you, and generate.
- Written for
- ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok
- Occasion
- New Year · 1 Jan 2027
- Status
- Tested 9 Oct 2026 in Grok, 9 Oct 2026 (one run; model id not exposed)
- Test settings
- The page's exact default prompt was run once in Grok on 9 Oct 2026. The text in Your notes is an illustration, not a real event. ChatGPT and Gemini were not used. The first result was kept.
- Variability
- Another run, or different notes, will change the wording. This is the first result for the illustrative notes on this page.
Prompt
Rank a supplied book shortlist against stated reading goals, time and preferences. Input: use only the notes at the end. If a fact this job needs is missing, ask one direct question and do not guess. Format for New Year reading shortlist: 1. Use provided metadata, avoid invented reviews and explain uncertainty. Do not add facts, names, dates, numbers or sources that are not in the notes. Notes: Goal: one novel in January, under 250 pages, city setting, no horror. Time: about 30 minutes on weeknights, none at weekends. Only card metadata is used. No review is invented. Rank 1: "Glass Trams," I. Vogel, 190 pages, Oslo, novel. Fits length and city. Uncertain: the card never says if the plot is bleak. Rank 2: "Market Lane," R. Adeyemi, 240 pages, Lagos, novel. Fits, but near the page cap. Uncertain: print size is absent, so weeknight time may fall short. Rank 3: "Low Tide," M. Pell, 160 pages, a fishing village, not a city. Weaker match. "Red Stair," 210 pages, is marked horror, so it is out. The order can change if weekend time is added later. That change is not assumed.
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Example output
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Goal: one novel in January, under 250 pages, city setting, no horror. Time: about 30 minutes on weeknights, none at weekends. Only card metadata is used. No review is invented. Rank can change if weekend time is added later. That change is not assumed. Rank 1: "Glass Trams," I. Vogel, 190 pages, Oslo, novel. Fits length and city. Uncertain: the card never says if the plot is bleak. Rank 2: "Market Lane," R. Adeyemi, 240 pages, Lagos, novel. Fits, but near the page cap. Uncertain: print size is absent, so weeknight time may fall short. Rank 3: "Low Tide," M. Pell, 160 pages, a fishing village, not a city. Weaker match because the setting is not a city. Out: "Red Stair," 210 pages, marked horror.
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- Open ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok or Claude.
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Good to know
- Written and structurally reviewed as an editable prompt; not independently run in a named AI app. Supply the requested source facts and verify the draft before use. A visual preview shows the task format, not an AI-tested result. The notes in Your notes are an example, not a real event. Run once in Grok on 9 Oct 2026. Replace the notes with your own before you use the draft.
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