Anything by Diana Wynne Jones (my favorites are Archer's Goon, Fire and Hemlock, Howl's Moving Castle and Homeward Bounders).

Weave a Circle Round by Kari Maaren.

Jasper Fforde (I'm only familiar with the Thursday Next books, but he's good at weird fantasy).

Now "browsing" means Netflix compiles your recent watch history and feeds you more of the exact same thing. Or Amazon analyzes your buy history and gives you a list of 15 books with basically the same title. You rarely stumble upon something new or different by chance. It's eroding our curiosity.

Thirteen footnotes on page 1. 😮

I am in awe.

For anyone interested. It's in Norwegian though. Someone saw the solution from his apartment and went outside to solve it.