I have a giant mixture of how I discover new books, but my biggest thing is mainly browsing local library website and their weekly lists of new releases as well as different book review aggregator sites

  • In addition to “osmosis” that the other user mentioned, which is my main way of finding new stuff: I subscribe to a newsletter about new releases that comes each Tuesday. Also from friends with similar tastes in reading, and a lot of time from checking the works cited and recommended reading sections in nonfiction books.

  • It’s most from recommendations. From a friend, or online (previously reddit, now lemmy). Historically, my way to choose a book, is if I like something from a author, just start going through their full bibliography. So, a single recommendation of a new author can last me a long time.

    These days, I am getting recommendations from our weekly “What are you reading” threads over at !books@lemmy.world. So many books are mentioned each week, my books wishlist has already grown quite a lot from it.