There are millions of books in existence and only twenty-four hours in the day. I'm curious how everyone here picks what books go on (and, depending on your proclivity for dropping books mid-read, stay on) your reading list?

Librarian recommendations? "Best of" lists? Your favorite authors' latest? Social media recommendations? Whatever seems "hot" at the moment? Serial publications/anthologies? High school/college reading lists*? Covers/titles that entice you? Whatever your approach, I wanna hear it!

*This is a fantastic way of creating non-fiction reading lists, but I can't imagine doing this with fiction--I'm just not that much of a literary masochist.

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[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

My two main sources:

My local library website, it’s got a lot of user-curated lists that I’ll dig through if I read a book I like and want to expand on the genre/topic. If I see something interesting I’ll mark it ‘for later’ and check out when available.

StoryGraph, I enjoy perusing the reading lists of other users that share my taste (per the app). Reminds me of last.fm but for books.

Otherwise, sometimes I’ll simply search the subject matter and dig through posts on Reddit or other forums. I love a personal recommendation, I just don’t know a lot of people who read as much as I do (or share my taste).