Anonymous:
do you have any advice for finding books to read that might be more obscure or lesser known? i look for book recommendations but they’re all very popular books that i already know about
a list of ways I have discovered books before:
- word of mouth, as in hearing people i admire talk about their favourites
- browsing bookstores and libraries, taking my time
- looking up books i already like on goodreads and seeing the ‘similar to this book’ section
- general internet searching for curated lists that are specific… searching up recommendations not just for an entire genre but for subgenres / time periods / smaller groupings
- looking up the favourite books of authors i like (they may have talked about it in interviews/ on their site)
- online forums— ex. in november and perhaps in the months before it, too, the nanowrimo forums are really interesting to look at for book recs and writing advice
- archives of blogs dedicated to books and fiction!
- just asking people in my life what they like, what they’ve remembered reading over the years.
hope this helps.
