I use Goodreads to track my books history and everything but i find it very useless in terms of new books suggestions. I would like to find something like Steam or Letterboxd, centralized, in which you can discover easily new readings based on your history and your preferred topics, and also track the new releases. Do you know something like that?
by andrfaa
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I don’t find them very useful at all. maybe try chatgpt, if you are quite specific it can work ok. The more you give it in terms what exactly, the better the responses.
However when choosing new stuff I generally look at reviews on Goodreads, the 3 star and less – to see WHY. If it’s not something that would bother me, I would then go read a sample first. On Amazon for instance. Then decide to buy.
Since a lot of my favorite books seem to me to be very different kinds of books, I don’t look for books that are similar to them. I’m not even sure what it would mean to be similar.
So I just look for lists of books 1) nominated for awards or 2) books on somebody’s “best of” list. The New Yorker recommends a few books every week, scifi sites always have best books of the year lists, etc. And the Pulitzer prize or Booker Awards, etc. publish their long lists of nominees.
And I just read the brief recaps and pick some that sound good. Since I’ve got a great library system, it’s easy for me to try a bunch of books and abandon the ones I’m not into.
If I had to buy books all the time, it would be much more daunting to pick books that would be worth risking my limited funds.