Finding a good method to get recommendations for books that I enjoy reading has changed my life.

I’m not going to begrudge anyone for reading books, regardless of how shitty I might think they are. Scrolling tiktok and then finding books and then going and reading them?? Sure beats just continually scrolling tiktok, or Twitter, or YouTube, or any of the countless other worse ways to spend your time.

This book should be read by everyone. It rocked me.

I think books definitely come to me at the right time. There will be times I get the notion that now is not right for this book or other times where a book I’ve heard of many times and am familiar with presents itself.

A couple cases from this year: Larry McMurty’s Lonesome Dove and Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. I could have read either book at any point over the last couple decades, but I didn’t. If I had, they wouldn’t have impacted me the way they did when I read them this year.

Eli Sisters from Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers. His struggles and his witty commentary get me every time.

I’ve made the switch this morning based on your recommendation but it only imported reading dates for very few of the books I’ve read. It looks like I’d like Storygraph but updating my reading history is going to take a fair but of effort.

I agree that we got just enough of Duke. Too much more and I think it would have colored things differently.

It’s pretty great. I love Ann Patchett.

r/whatisthisbook

I’ve found that he goodreads desktop website is much much more useful than the app. Startlingly so.

I’m reading Animal Dreams by Barbra Kingsolver, it’s my third of her books this year after reading Demon Copperhead and then The Poisonwood Bible.

I’ve been a lifelong reader, loving books since before I can remember.

There’s a few but if I was pushed to pick one, it’s Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Nope, I’ve always read. Babysitter’s Club, etc in my preteen years, Pet Sematery at 13 and away we went.

I look at WHO blurbed but I don’t really care what they had to say.

If you read the book and adored it, you could post about it at r/IReadaBookandAdoredIt

I’ve thought about this a lot, too. I appreciate the discussion here.

I might be interested in this. I think I’ve sent a friend request?

I wouldn’t be shocked if money played a role.

It’s an ongoing and active process for me, too. The NYT has a ‘9 New Books to Read This Week’ article that I keep tabs on, and CBC Books keeps me updated on new and notable Canadian works, and I follow all the major literary prizes (Booker, Giller, Pulitzer, National Book Award) processes. Add in the social media accounts of authors and readers I trust and my list is always ongoing and evolving and I’m rarely without a couple exciting options to read at all times.

edit: I also follow subs like r/IReadaBookandAdoredIt to generate new suggestions

I don’t “track”, per se, but I do try and ensure an array if voices.

A few years ago, in the course of conversation, my wife challenged me to look through my last 10 booms and see how many were dudes. I was kinda shocked. So now I intentionally read more women than men, and when I come across interesting books by BIPOC or LGBTQ2S+ authors I make a note and add them to the list.