@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
I previously used to browse some subreddits and ask for reccs, but that plan is in a liminal phase at that moment.
@astromd Are there any other book communities in KBin or Lemmy that I can subscribe to? I can subscribe with this account even though it’s a Hometown account
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?
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.
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.
@bnotwen I will try that next! I typically am not eager to read award winners but that is a great resource
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.
I just follow “literature news”, where whatever is exciting in the literature, or just corresponds to someone’s hobby horse inevitably shows up. I’m pretty happy to have found sources that align well with my tastes
Specifically:
- Papierstau Podcast (warning: German)
- Information (warning, Danish)
- European Review of Books
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.
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.
