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.

Recommendations from friends and people I follow online, mainly. I follow a bunch of authors and narrative designers and between all of them I haven’t ran out of books for my wishlist yet!

I try to take recommendations from multiple places:

Friends and family

Goodreads

Social media/online personalities I enjoy

Algorithm recommendations (other people who bought that book also bought…)

And my personal favorite: wandering around in a bookstore until a title or cover catches my eye

This way I get recommendations with some context (this book is similar to another book I liked, or, Mary has good taste in fantasy books and highly recommends this one) and also some room for serendipity to find something I might not normally read.

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.

Osmosis.

I don’t actively seek out books to read - I just keep my eyes open and stumble across more than enough of them.