What the title says. I’m looking for some books to fit my mood and I’m having the hardest time. It’d also be fun to be able to search outside of the box sometime and widen my reading scope.
I saw a post with people joking about what books they’d swipe left on, but that made me wonder if there were actually any good apps for recommendations?
I’ve tried asking Reddit (some great insights but no luck with that I’m looking for atm), browsing the bookstore in person like the olden days, a few websites but they were all pretty lacking. I heard ChatGPT is helpful but I haven’t found any good ones that let you ask without paying.
Anyway, how do you find your next favorite reads?
What I usually do is I follow Instagram accounts of book retailers (the one I check the most is Waterstones) and scroll down their feed to check the books they publicise).
Then there are other other book genres that I read that are not widely publicised on social media, as History books are (I’m a History undergraduate, so I read them quite often), for which I have to go to a book retailer’s website and check their History section. I don’t usually like this method because if you want to check books that are not brand-new or bestsellers, you have a quite tedious work of leafing through the tons of books that are there until I find something that catches my eye.
I’m glad you made this post, because I would like to find better ways to find new books.