*eyes Thriftbooks*

Y'all have some interesting algorithms or tags or whatever if 'Genre Fiction' has room for George R. R. Martin, Tolkien, Paulo Coelho, Joseph Heller, and Hemingway on the first page.

*squints*

And Khaled Hossaini. What the hell does your system think 'genre' means, anyway? Usually that's code for 'geeks spend money, so put the geek books where they can be easily found'.

*squints at Thriftbooks some more*

Search term: 'yiddish'

Results page: fifteen books on the Yiddish language, three books with the word Yiddish in the title (The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Beautiful Yetta the Yiddish Chicken, Tevye The Dairyman (Library of Yiddish Classics), aaand... an English language edition of Curious George.

what.