I love Witch Hat Atelier the manga and the anime’s animation is beautiful, but I can’t stand the voice acting for the protagonist in either Japanese or English. It’s so screamy and loud and overly dramatic. I couldn’t keep watching and just went back to rereading the manga.

Why is no one mentioning Flow? It is literally built to be exactly what you want. It has a local, no-Google-account required recommendation engine.

Gardens of the Moon [Book 1 of Malazan: Book of the Fallen]

Flow by far