i like to use r/books and r/suggestmeabook for finding new books but people always suggest me books or topics im just not interested in and that dont match what i loved, I also had the issue with goodreads and not being able to track audiobooks, ebooks, ect vs. physical books which i dont really read physical so it was a feature i was missing. I have noticed a huge difference since switching to storygraph. I can properly find books that have content in them i want and can more easily avoid books that lead to a bad reading experience and have a easier time tracking all my stats for the year.
I read for fun but one of the things that got me back into reading more steadily is having a yearly goal, i also have a reading journal and seeing my stats in a app is helpful before i put them in my book or i can print them to put in which is even better.
i know this isnt about books in particular but i find how i track books and find books to almost be as important. I dont want to read books that might have a surprise romance in the middle of a horror for example like in jaws so story graph has tags that would have warned me before i started the book.
Check out an app called Bookly if you’re looking for tracking. It’s the best out of everything I’ve tried and I rarely pay for apps but bought a lifetime sub to this one and it’s been worth every penny. It doesn’t recommend books to you but it tracks absolutely everything. You add the books you’re reading, set your own genres up. Then when you start reading or listening you just press the start button and don’t press stop until you’ve finished your session. Obviously you can pause it.
Pages, minutes, hours, days etc etc. You can set daily, weekly monthly and yearly goals for time or pages or hours read. Save quotes. Words. Then I add everything into my book journal. I read and listen to a lot of books so finding this app a couple of years ago was awesome.
I’ve stopped looking to goodreads to be honest but I have a TBR pile that’s about three years long and that’s just the physical ones. I know what I love to read and apart from romance, I’ll give pretty much anything a go. Though horror and thriller are my favourites, I still don’t find many decent recommendations on goodreads apart from ones I’ve read or ones I already know about.