BookJumpr collects explicit mentions of one book inside another: a character picks a paperback off a shelf, a narrator quotes a novel they loved at fifteen, a biography lists what its subject read on a long voyage. Each mention links the two books, usually with the line where it happens, and together they make a network you can wander.
It started with Kafka on the Shore: its characters kept mentioning other books, as a reference point in conversation, as something they were reading, or by name, and those titles began to leak into a reading list. Would you understand a character better if you had read the book they mention? The author chose that book on purpose.
What counts as a mention: a book has to be named on the page, whether read, quoted, discussed, or dropped into conversation. Footnotes, bibliographies, and back-of-book references don’t count. Neither do allusions a critic might spot: if the text doesn’t say the title, it’s not in.
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