Title: How to choose books you’ll actually read | by Rosie Leizrowice | Ascent Publication
Headings: How to choose books you’ll actually read
How to choose books you’ll actually read
Stop slogging through books you don’t like
Choosing books can be a pain.
Either way, there’s no real logic to it.
A great reading habit begins with the books you choose. Nothing matters as much as that.
Ask yourself these questions
The obvious methods:
First, if you enjoy one book by an author, look up whatever else they’ve written.
Second, let’s be honest: Amazon’s book recommendation algorithm is pretty damn good.
Thirdly, curated lists can be helpful
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Start lending books to people you know
Bibliographies. Always read the bibliography
The quotes section on Goodreads
For that reason, it’s a goldmine for discovering books:

Content: Either way, there’s no real logic to it. You probably end up reading a random mix of books, many of them just because they’re popular, that you might not even enjoy. With this mindset, it’s easy to let reading become a chore and to become bored with the general act of reading. If you only read books you don’t like that much, you’ll end up thinking you don’t like reading. So you’ll read less and less — and your ability to focus on a book will get worse. This spiral is, I believe, why so many people don’t enjoy reading. From a young age, we’re presented with reading lists and forced to plough through the classics at school. Most of the classics on the average school reading list are certainly good books that are worth reading at some point. But they are miles from the tastes of the kids who have to read them. Many are quite hard even for adults to understand.