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Originally Posted by seenic
So how best to find new books to read rather than simply the pot-shot approach of randomly choosing.
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I had that same issue a few years ago when I restarted my reading, after 7+ years of not picking up a book.
First I reread my pbook collection. For the books I enjoyed, I found other works by those same authors and read those. Then I had numerous Sets where the author had written additional books, so read those as well. So that has kept me going for a few years.
As I am coming to the end of my "To Read" list, I started taking note of Amazon's suggestions over the last 6 weeks. There were 4 books that Amazon had been pushing onto me for most of this year. I recently took the plunge and was amazed at how great they were. You haven't asked for recommendations, but here they are anyway...
Carpathians...
https://paul-dixon.com/carpathians/
The Aurora Cycle...
https://www.goodreads.com/series/179...e-aurora-cycle
I also visit bookshops to check out new releases, and once every couple of weeks I head over to the (sort of) local 2nd hand bookshop run by the local catholic school. A massive collection of books and I always find something interesting there.