With so many books being published every day, how do you find a book you want to read?
I usually go through recommendations on Goodreads, and I keep track of what books my favourite authors are publishing.
I will literally judge a book by its cover. I’ll check the genre and synopsis of whatever catches my eye. Friends (or other people whose reading tastes I trust) are my only source of book recommendations.
I usually use storygraph, bookriot or a review aggregator called bookmarks.reviews thats hosted by lithub. Or just generally peruse what’s at my local library.
I find I get the best new book ideas from people rather than lists or goodreads or more generic recommendations. Things like talking about books (online or in person), reading book discussions, following authors I like on social media (for updates on new books and also because often if I like an authors books I’ll like the books/authors they talk about) and following reviewers whose taste that meshes with mine (there are tons of people reviewing books online for any niche you can think of, for example I’ve been following this blog that reviews 50s-80s SFF for a decade+ and gotten so many reads from him).
I might have the opposite problem lol. Too much I want to read and too little time. I always wanna read them all.
To narrow it down, I search in my library/libby app and then pick the one currently available.
I’ll second the Libby app but more directly…
I look at the new books available then filter by the genre I’d like to read. Many duds but I’ve also run across many duds being recommended online (like reddit). Feels a bit like eating out pre-internet where you’d try a restaurant and hope for the best.
I look at ebook sales and then I click the prettiest covers because there’s so many books that I just accept that I don’t have the time to click through every description of every book.
However, now that I have a Bookwyrm account it appears that I can also go there for recommendations. Nice.
