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How do you pick books to read? (self.books)
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Social media (goodreads/tiktok/reddit)? Colleagues? Friends? Browsing the library/bookstore? Asking for recommendations from staff at libraries/bookstores?

BONUS: if you can remember, how did you find books you really enjoyed?

I realized a lot of my favorite book recs came from reddit. I was a subscriber of r/books and picked up some really good books there. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is an example.

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[–] Audalin 2 points 2 years ago
  • r/suggestmeabook and r/TrueLit (I usually search old posts);
  • unread books from authors I already enjoy;
  • references in books, annotations and reviews;
  • some authors that, when you focus on them (which is the hard part, as the mind learns to ignore things it has no time for at the moment, and there's never enough time for everything), have actually been mentioned quite a bit alongside those that you like;
  • recommendation engines: https://www.literature-map.com/, https://www.gnooks.com/, https://thestorygraph.com/;
  • direct recommendations from people I know;
  • for reviewers whose taste and opinion I trust, I sometimes look up what else they'd reviewed.

if you can remember, how did you find books you really enjoyed?

In my schooltime, in some museum, an old lady I'd never seen again had a small rant on what modern people read instead of good literature; she also named some authors she considered good. I memorised one of them.