I entered "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other" and I received books about Steve Jobs, Harry Potter and "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck". Like how???
These seem to fit the description you are going for better. The model is trained to predict the next book in the sequence. Those other books you listed happen to be very popular, so in the absence of information about you (only having 1 book), the model will tend to recommend those.
