Fivebooks.com is similar in some aspects, their interviews with experts I find very enlightening. By now they do have lists on very wide variety of topics inclu

Fivebooks.com is similar in some aspects, their interviews with experts I find very enlightening. By now they do have lists on very wide variety of topics including eclectic ones. Eg: they have lists on books about Indonesia, about biographies of Charlemagne, about understanding Modern Greece, etc.