I have a giant mixture of how I discover new books, but my biggest thing is mainly browsing local library website and their weekly lists of new releases as well as different book review aggregator sites
My current method:
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Watch movie based on a book
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Read the book
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End up enjoying the book more than the movie
Based on this, I highly recommend John Dies at the End and the three books that follow.
omfg John Dies at the End was one of my favorites! The movie absolutely didn’t do it justice
That one seems to be a hugely recommended one on here!
Can you tell me why you like reading books from which movies are made?
I often find that reading a book after I watch the movie constrains my imagination to the images given by the movie, and I don’t like that. Do you ever feel like this?
If the book was good enough to merit a movie budget, I feel like it’s good enough for me to at least check out.
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Osmosis.
I don’t actively seek out books to read - I just keep my eyes open and stumble across more than enough of them.
Same!
I enjoy talking about books, so I end up sharing favorites and news with a lot of people. Usually, I get more recommendations than I’m able to read.
Recommendations from friends and people I follow online, mainly. I follow a bunch of authors and narrative designers and between all of them I haven’t ran out of books for my wishlist yet!
I browse TV tropes and then if a book sounds cool enough I put it on my to read list.
I try to take recommendations from multiple places:
Friends and family
Goodreads
Social media/online personalities I enjoy
Algorithm recommendations (other people who bought that book also bought…)
And my personal favorite: wandering around in a bookstore until a title or cover catches my eye
This way I get recommendations with some context (this book is similar to another book I liked, or, Mary has good taste in fantasy books and highly recommends this one) and also some room for serendipity to find something I might not normally read.
I love window shopping at barnes and noble, especially taking pictures of books to later get at the library
In addition to “osmosis” that the other user mentioned, which is my main way of finding new stuff: I subscribe to a newsletter about new releases that comes each Tuesday. Also from friends with similar tastes in reading, and a lot of time from checking the works cited and recommended reading sections in nonfiction books.
It’s most from recommendations. From a friend, or online (previously reddit, now lemmy). Historically, my way to choose a book, is if I like something from a author, just start going through their full bibliography. So, a single recommendation of a new author can last me a long time.
These days, I am getting recommendations from our weekly “What are you reading” threads over at [email protected]. So many books are mentioned each week, my books wishlist has already grown quite a lot from it.
