I read new arrivals list on my Kindle. Then add any that sound good to my to-read list on Goodreads. I use that to make my hold selections at the library.
What Should I Read Next podcast with Anne Bogel. She also has a blog called Modern Mrs. Darcy. Such good conversations with readers! I highly recommend it!!!
Not friends. Mine are all dumb and have horrible taste. J/K all my most (and least) favorites were recommends. I find out something new about the friend as well❤️ through what they suggest.
well when i was much younger i had the fortune to have ONE MIND of great taste, a Virginian from Richmond who turned me onto Cormac McCarthy, Eric Fromm, & alot of great Brit and Amerikan melodic, PRINE Gentle Giant Paul Winter Harvey Mandel..Bernstein..one Swanson tudor… but now one has to just check out the parade…this certainly is a GIFT…
Listening to the @Chinelo podcast each Friday. The best part is at the end of each program, when editor Pamela Paul and the staff writers discuss what they’re reading.
Amazon gives me really good recommendations based on books I’ve purchased previously. I also get ideas from the Sunday book section of The Denver Post.
I watch booktube on YouTube. It takes awhile to find folks who read books comparable to your taste. I also subscribe to BookPages magazine. I check out new releases on Fantastic Fiction
Goodreads and my Goodreads updates feed, Book Riot email newsletters, New York Times Review of Books email newsletter, browsing various bookstores, NPR radio, thrift store book shelves, word of mouth, talk radio, television, various other book review newsletters I receive in my email, email news letter from my local Indie bookstore, Bookmarks magazine, the Friends of the Library bookstore, probably other places I can’t think of at the moment. My ears are always open to the mention of books.
this site has been amazing. so many recommendation for great books I will neve be able to read them all. thanks to everyone who tells us about the book they are reading.
I’m trying to *avoid* book recommendations at this point—my list of books to read is long enough, lol! But when I was looking for them, I used Goodreads or my local indie bookstore. 🙂
I’ve been avoiding Book Tube for that same reason, but then the GAR aired and I discovered this book club because of it. I’ve easily added 100 titles since joining this group. *sigh*
I love Anne Bogel and her fantastic book blog! As well as her podcast, What Should I Read Next. Fantastic! My TBR has increased by 100s in the last few months. I went from a Read because I’m bored and can’t find nothing to watch (even though I LOVE reading) I couldn’t find what I was looking for. Then someone told me about Anne, and I can’t stop reading! If I don’t find it from Anne, I used the little new book catalog from the library.
We had THE best librarian and she always had great advice for me. She was amazing! I read books I would have never picked up, A Town Like Alice, World War Z, The Help (before it was huge), Dog On It, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend. All of them in different genres and all a perfect fit for me! I miss her soooo much (retired)!
Yes right here is just great. I’ve never been so happy! Also my sister, NPR, love the Indie newsletter at independent booksellers and of course the library and friends.Jayne
Friends, Goodreads, NPR, The Daily Show, The Tonight Show, podcasts. Depending on the source I buy it. I haven’t very good luck with my local library having the types of books I prefer so I take the risk and buy them.
As a public librarian, I love giving book recommendations. I read so many books each year, of so many different genres, that I feel I have enough knowledge to give people good recommendations based on what they like.
As many noting, nyt bk rev … supplemented by New Yorker, nps/pbs … . Once am paying attention, Amazon has great blurbs as ‘All Editorial Reviews’ to get wider feel.
Amazon is good. I look at their new releases, and then look at the customer reviews for titles of interest. Of course you can’t trust a single reviewer, so I look at the total number of reviews and the average star rating to get a good feel for how much people enjoy a book.
For years my sister in law was the best recommender – I’d read anything she told me to! But, sadly, she died about 5 years ago. I still think about her every time I need another book, or think about her every time I read a good book. Since then, my husband & my other sister-in-law have had good suggestions…& now – this page is my new nudge for reading ideas — it is going to be good summer with good books!!
My friend who happens to be my cousin. She’s a librarian and has never steered me wrong! Without her, I would never have read books outside my comfort zone.
Goodreads
Word of mouth from trusted friends ?
librarians
GAR discussions and Amazon
Goodreads
I read new arrivals list on my Kindle. Then add any that sound good to my to-read list on Goodreads. I use that to make my hold selections at the library.
Facebook groups. Book page, blogs and Goodreads. Oh my sister
Oh and let’s not forget this group!! ?
Bookbub, Amazon, family and friends
New York Times, Oprah Magazine, browsing the “new books” shelves at the library, word of mouth.
Pinterest…
There is a website – Fantastic Fiction- it’s fantastic
Goodreads and my library.
What Should I Read Next podcast with Anne Bogel. She also has a blog called Modern Mrs. Darcy. Such good conversations with readers! I highly recommend it!!!
I second this! And when you hear people’s loves and hates, you get a better feel for what you might like.
Yes! She’s so good at recommendations. I love hearing about people’s reading habits and why they loved or hated a book.
Bookmarks
Goodreads, and my local library ?
New York Times Book Review & Bookmarks magazine
Friends, Goodreads,and Library
Not friends. Mine are all dumb and have horrible taste. J/K all my most (and least) favorites were recommends. I find out something new about the friend as well❤️ through what they suggest.
http://www.fantasticfiction.com/
Now- this group!!!
I know like a lifetime worth already added???
Friend’s reviews on Goodreads, BookPage, Amazon, and now this group.
It’s a multi-step progress — first the write ups in mags — Elle, Vanity Fair. Then, if it sounds intriguing I check out the reviews in Goodreads
Friends and Goodreads
Me. I’m a librarian.
Litsy. I feel like I’m giving away a secret ?
New York Times Bestseller list and recommendations of friends.
NPR, New York Times, local library
Ny times
The footnotes of other books I’m reading.
This was an accident
Good Reads
-NYT Sunday Book Review
-Copperfish Book Store (independent and locally owned in Punta Gorda, Fla)
Fantastic Fiction
O magazine
Goodreads
Various bookstores that send out monthly email letters.
NY Times. Online. Author posts.
NPR, WaPo, NY Times
Star Tribune Books
The Great American Read Book Club.
Goodreads or booktubers I follow.
Goodreads!
What Should I Read Next podcast by Anne Bogel
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/what-should-i-read-next/id1073499086?mt=2&i=1000414112587
Goodreads. Coworkers.
Goodreads and the librarian who knows me well.
Ah, yes, librarians. An underappreciated source of information.
New York Times Book Review
Social media
Book Tube and now the Great American Read Book Club ♡
Great American Read Book Club
Goodreads & Pinterest
NYT book review
What I find at yard sales, library sales, or on the bookshelves in the stores. Lol.
Goodreads, Bookmark magazine and Book Pages (free at the library) and friends ?
I am a member too!
Friends, sister, mom…
Goodreads
Goodreads
well when i was much younger i had the fortune to have ONE MIND of great taste, a Virginian from Richmond who turned me onto Cormac McCarthy, Eric Fromm, & alot of great Brit and Amerikan melodic, PRINE Gentle Giant Paul Winter Harvey Mandel..Bernstein..one Swanson tudor… but now one has to just check out the parade…this certainly is a GIFT…
Goodreads, Book-bub articles, Amazone
Fantastic Fiction- enter your favorite author- after their titles are their recommendations and similar authors.
NYTimes Book Review and Goodreads
NPR
Oh geez, me too.
The New York Review of Books.
The Jewish Book Council, Brightly, NPR, my students, and former professors.
Not my favorite, but right up there.
Mom
BookPage
Sister in law
Family and Bookmarks Magazine
Goodreads.
Local bookstore
Bookriot also.
http://bookreporter.com/
Modern Mrs Darcy blog or her podcast, What Should I Read Next?
TGAR Book Club????
The What Should I Read Next Podcast with Anne Bogel.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anne-bogel/what-should-i-read-next
Nancy Pearl on NPR is a great source. You can access previous recommendations on the NPR web site under the “Arts and Life” section.
I work at Barnes & Noble and get most of my recommendations from my customers ?
The “Fresh Air” podcast and “The New Yorker Radio Hour ‘ podcast.
New York Times Bestseller’s List
Listening to the @Chinelo podcast each Friday. The best part is at the end of each program, when editor Pamela Paul and the staff writers discuss what they’re reading.
Where do you listen to the podcast? I can’t find it on the Apple podcast app?
@Whitney from the Podcast app on your phone, just do a search and you’ll see it. “New York Times Book Review”
Books my favorite authors review
Friends and the best seller list
http://amazon.com/ and their new releases list!
BookTube! (the community of book lovers on YouTube!)
Goodreads
Goodreads and now this group!
NY Times Book Review & NPR
At the moment, this group. ?
A college syllabus.
Bookmarks magazine
Goodreads and a weekly trip to Barnes and noble. Usually on a Tuesday when new books are released or Wednesday.
Me
Walking down the aisle in a great bookstore!!!!!
Friends, Goodreads, Amazon and magazines.
My sister and our daughter
I use all sources I have available. I am quite an eclectic reader.
Goodreads, Amazon and friends
What Should I Read Next podcast
http://curledup.com/ Organized by genre and reviews come from people who love to read, not literary critics.
Book Movement
Amazon gives me really good recommendations based on books I’ve purchased previously. I also get ideas from the Sunday book section of The Denver Post.
Kirkus, BookBub, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook, NY Times, NPR, my book club, this group!!!
New York Times book section.
goodreads
Again I say to check out the website Fantastic Fiction
Books about books, for example My life with bob by Pamela Paul; the end of your life book club
Lately I’ve been referring to Reese Witherspoon’s book list. She’s got some great reads there.
My sisters!?
NPR
?
National Public Radio See https://www.npr.org/books/
Pop Culture Happy Hour, an NPR podcast, also offers some great recommendations!
NYTimes, LitHub, my bookclub, The New Yorker, friends, The Guardian, NPR.
I get most of my recommendations from my Goodreads friend’s recommendations. So many…
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books!!!
Goodreads groups
New York Times book review
The Great American Read group!
I love the magazine Bookmarks.
Bookbub
My book club members, Goodreads and friends!
Fresh Air (Terry Gross’ show), New Yorker, LitHub.
NLS talking book and braille library
I watch booktube on YouTube. It takes awhile to find folks who read books comparable to your taste. I also subscribe to BookPages magazine. I check out new releases on Fantastic Fiction
Everywhere!
NY Times Book. review
What Should I Read Next Podcast
This group! I’ve added so many to my TBR
Word of mouth
Book Riot, Tor and Smart Bitches are my go tos
Bookpage. The book pages from the MINNEAPOLIS tribune.
TV
Goodreads
Pinterest
HERE! ?
Goodreads,Bookbub,many book sites to look at!
Friends and here and book lists…
I read the ratings on Goodreads
The internet, Bookmarks magazine, bookclub recommendations.
Goodreads and my Goodreads updates feed, Book Riot email newsletters, New York Times Review of Books email newsletter, browsing various bookstores, NPR radio, thrift store book shelves, word of mouth, talk radio, television, various other book review newsletters I receive in my email, email news letter from my local Indie bookstore, Bookmarks magazine, the Friends of the Library bookstore, probably other places I can’t think of at the moment. My ears are always open to the mention of books.
You left nothing out. Lol
@Sra I may have forgotten to mention, right here at the GAR!
Nancy Pearl on NPR.
Love NPRs book segments. They release a list of books they reviewed every year. I’d like to go through some of them someday.
Goodreads and Pinterest
Librarything, Amazon, the library
this site has been amazing. so many recommendation for great books I will neve be able to read them all. thanks to everyone who tells us about the book they are reading.
Book award long lists
The librarian, who knows all things about what I like and don’t like to read.
Friends!
Goodreads
My local bookstore! The staff puts handwritten reviews on little cards on the shelves. I just love reading why they loved a book.
NYT/USA Today
and of course this book club
I’m trying to *avoid* book recommendations at this point—my list of books to read is long enough, lol! But when I was looking for them, I used Goodreads or my local indie bookstore. 🙂
I’ve been avoiding Book Tube for that same reason, but then the GAR aired and I discovered this book club because of it. I’ve easily added 100 titles since joining this group. *sigh*
Bookmarks magazine (not Book Pages from library). http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/
Goodreads
I love Anne Bogel and her fantastic book blog! As well as her podcast, What Should I Read Next. Fantastic! My TBR has increased by 100s in the last few months. I went from a Read because I’m bored and can’t find nothing to watch (even though I LOVE reading) I couldn’t find what I was looking for. Then someone told me about Anne, and I can’t stop reading!
If I don’t find it from Anne, I used the little new book catalog from the library.
https://modernmrsdarcy.com/
Book Club list from my friends that live all over the country
http://fantasticfiction.com/
Goodreads, Publishers Weekly
Bookshops, libraries, Lithub, friends.
Goodreads
Book Page.
The librarians at my library. And now this group.
My book club friends, Goodreads, my library’s new releases shelves, NY Times or SF Chronicle book reviews, and my fellow readers in this group!
We had THE best librarian and she always had great advice for me. She was amazing! I read books I would have never picked up, A Town Like Alice, World War Z, The Help (before it was huge), Dog On It, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend. All of them in different genres and all a perfect fit for me! I miss her soooo much (retired)!
Friends. GAR.
local library
Pinterest Posts Summer reading lists and I read the reviews and last summer read 9 on the list from Pinterest.
at the moment it’s this book club
Right now its right here!
Book Riot is good, but as a librarian, I must recommend Novelist. Ask your public librarian about it.
I absolutely love Novelist!
Yes right here is just great. I’ve never been so happy! Also my sister, NPR, love the Indie newsletter at independent booksellers and of course the library and friends.Jayne
A couple of close friends. Especially, Sally Owen, who likes the same type of book. I trust her recommendations totally.
Thanks Jean. Always a pleasure to swap titles with you.
Friends. And also, when Stephen King posts about a book, I read it. His recommendations have led me to some of my new favorite authors.
Friends, Goodreads, NPR, The Daily Show, The Tonight Show, podcasts. Depending on the source I buy it. I haven’t very good luck with my local library having the types of books I prefer so I take the risk and buy them.
Fiends, my daughters and Goodreads
As a public librarian, I love giving book recommendations. I read so many books each year, of so many different genres, that I feel I have enough knowledge to give people good recommendations based on what they like.
BookPage, monthly periodical free at the library
Book sections of magazines and newspapers
My sister-in-law and friend, @LeAnn!
NPR interviews. Good read reviews.
My friend @Laura ?
Nyt book review
Book Riot
As many noting, nyt bk rev … supplemented by New Yorker, nps/pbs … . Once am paying attention, Amazon has great blurbs as ‘All Editorial Reviews’ to get wider feel.
Amazon is good. I look at their new releases, and then look at the customer reviews for titles of interest. Of course you can’t trust a single reviewer, so I look at the total number of reviews and the average star rating to get a good feel for how much people enjoy a book.
My best friend Peggy who has read the most books of anyone I know. And yet I can still recommend books to her. Amazing. Friends since we were ten.
Husband
I read the New York Times Sunday section on books.
friends…sunday newspaper…People magazine…talk shows…Stephen Colbert always has great authors on
The Book Riot. I read the content on their site and listen to a few of their podcasts.
Kindle, Nook, The Great American Read.
Right here, there such diversity, I love to be challenged to read a genre that I would not naturally go to.
Friends
I’ve mentioned BOOKMARKS before.
Here!!!
Bookmarks Magazine and Friends
Right here!
I like Bookbub
I was taking classes and backed off so I am re-visiting some of my favorite authors. Love this post lots of ideas
Now it is the GARBC.
This group!!!
The Sunday paper with top sellers.
Friends & now this group….of friends
Goodreads or Bookbubs are both good sources for recommendations.
My book group, Goodreads and The Great American Read Book Club.
Librarians
The Seattle Public Library has a service called Your Next Five Books. They give recommendations based on your previous likes.
Reading friends, now that my Daddy has gone to heaven
This group, book club friends, cousin
GoodReads, Shelf Awareness (newsletter & website), checking websites of my favourite authors, my book club. 🙂
friends
For years my sister in law was the best recommender – I’d read anything she told me to! But, sadly, she died about 5 years ago. I still think about her every time I need another book, or think about her every time I read a good book. Since then, my husband & my other sister-in-law have had good suggestions…& now – this page is my new nudge for reading ideas — it is going to be good summer with good books!!
Book Club lists (mine and friends’ clubs, reviews, readers sites—esp THIS one!!
The New York bestseller list and new releases I often find myself pre-ordered books
I read books from the authors that have reviewed my favorite books.
Goodreads website.
My friend who happens to be my cousin. She’s a librarian and has never steered me wrong! Without her, I would never have read books outside my comfort zone.
That’s what’s great about Book Clubs!!
Other authors that I follow. And then Goodreads.
NY Times Book Review, Kirkus
I love Bookmarks magazine.