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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[–] l3enc@piefed.ee 2 points 2 days ago

it's about 50/50 between

going into a bookstore and picking out whatever looks interesting, writing down the name of the book and author, getting some more context about the book or skirm through reviews and buying it.
or just looking up "books simmilar to x" looking through recommendation threads on piefed/lemmy or such.

the "checking the reviews" part is especially important for non fiction, i'd rather not waste time and money reading about something that the author has no actual knowladge in