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How do you pick books to read? (lemmy.world)

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I realize you are asking books and not necessarily audiobooks but for audiobooks I follow a few good narrators that I know only do books I will like. This way I am almost always guaranteed a good book, and as a bonus I already know the narration quality will be perfect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s a good method, I hate it when I find a new book I think I’ll be interested in and listen only to find that I can’t stand the narrator

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just because you couldn't sit through Infinite Jest read by Gilbert Gottfried doesn't mean the rest of us can't