we built this "work-level" catalog at Margins [1] -- 12mo+ of work -- book data is the messiest data I've worked with in my 10+ years of building things with data
[1] iOS app to track and discover books: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737528718
[1] iOS app to track and discover books: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737528718
That being said, the reason I was working on this was because I wanted a simple and effective way to get alerted to new books published by authors I want to track, can this work for that?
As an API for you to query yourself for free, not for a while (but on the long-term roadmap!)