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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[–] TheV2@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

I don't have hard rules and processes to filter and order my reading list. But I know my preferences, e.g.:

older books (especially when it's an inspiration to another book on the list)
availability of exact cover and edition that I want at an affordable price
shorter books (and series)

But most of the time the choice what I'm reading next is not an active decision.