@literature how do you find new books to read? For me, it’s YouTube channels, blogs like lovely Audiobooks, the Libro FM blog and the Audible blog. I listen to audio (tweesecake.social)

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@literature how do you find new books to read? For me, it’s YouTube channels, blogs like lovely Audiobooks, the Libro FM blog and the Audible blog. I listen to audiobooks

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[-] astromd@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I previously used to browse some subreddits and ask for reccs, but that plan is in a liminal phase at that moment.

[-] nlm@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Same here. We'll, the part about subreddits at least. We ought to be able to as for recommendations here in this community though, no?

[-] bnotwen@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I recently started looking up awards winner lists on Wikipedia. I've found some great sci-fi on the list of Philip K Dick and Hugo award winners.

[-] tlwright@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Modern Mrs Darcy, my RSS list of book blogs, Book Riot, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Arts & Letters Daily, Goodreads, StoryGraph. I was getting recs from a handful of subreddits, for genre fiction too. I read physical and ebooks.

[-] WehImOarsch@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I just follow "literature news", where whatever is exciting in the literature, or just corresponds to someone's hobby horse inevitably shows up. I'm pretty happy to have found sources that align well with my tastes

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