With so many books being published every day, how do you find a book you want to read?

I usually go through recommendations on Goodreads, and I keep track of what books my favourite authors are publishing.

  • blindsight@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I read almost exclusively LitRPGs and progression fantasy (PF). They’re subgenres of fantasy.

    PF is focused on the protagonist gaining power, often through a magical system like cultivation, where they absorb energy from the universe into their magical core to gain supernatural powers (although there’s a lot of variety in PF; cultivation is its own subgenre of PF).

    LitRPGs are PF but where the system is like a videogame, with stats, level ups, dungeons, loot, quests, or achievements, etc. Sometimes literally in a videogame, but more often in a fantasy world that works like a videogame.

    I used to get most of my recommendations from /r/LitRPG, so not really sure what I’ll do now. I’ve joined their Discord, so maybe there?

    The rest of my reading is non-fiction that I mostly find with specific topic searches on Google, through work/coworkers, or from podcasts/talk radio.

    I almost never browse storefronts. LitRPG is way too niche to ask a librarian about, either, ha ha!