@literature how do you find new books to read? For me, it’s YouTube channels, blogs like lovely Audiobooks, the Libro FM blog and the Audible blog. I listen to audiobooks

  • bnotwen@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I recently started looking up awards winner lists on Wikipedia. I’ve found some great sci-fi on the list of Philip K Dick and Hugo award winners.

    • Banzai51@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Every year there is a book published with the Hugo award winners and other awards. Obviously, this is the short story categories. But I found it a great way to find interesting stories and authors I should branch out towards.

  • astromd@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I previously used to browse some subreddits and ask for reccs, but that plan is in a liminal phase at that moment.

    • nlm@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Same here. We’ll, the part about subreddits at least. We ought to be able to as for recommendations here in this community though, no?

  • tlwright@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Modern Mrs Darcy, my RSS list of book blogs, Book Riot, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Arts & Letters Daily, Goodreads, StoryGraph. I was getting recs from a handful of subreddits, for genre fiction too. I read physical and ebooks. Edit to add: I also have a few authors I autobuy/read their newsletters so I can get their newest book whenever it comes out.

  • Retronautickz@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I look up books on some topic I’m interested at the moment (Nowadays I’m reading a lot about classical composers), or a genre or some author. I search for an audiobook on youtube (I’ve listened to a lot of audiobooks there) or if there’s any pdf/similar format of the book I can download.

  • joeygibson@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I used to wander through my local Borders bookstore, looking for interesting covers. I still do that occasionally at Barnes & Noble (since Borders no longer exists), but somehow it’s just not as much fun.

  • EntropicalVacation@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Libro.fm, Powells blog, LibraryThing (which has both user and automatic recommendations, and user-generated lists that are good for titles in specific genres or specific topics or all the winners of a particular award), New York Times book reviews, the Guardian book reviews, Tor.com, book sites that I happen on when searching for book reviews of titles I’m interested in. I just added a few books to my TBR from a Metafiction list on LibraryThing.