I actually go via reverse route. Often times I would find something of interest on HN or Reddit which would make me feel excited.

Then to fulfil the curiosity I would often read lot of blogs, articles on same topic. If I still feel that I am still not satisfied then I pick book on the topic.

I usually read around 20 books in an year and all are shortlisted [1] as per the above method. Last 3 books that I have read

- Code Breakers (I found the mRNA vaccine and gene editing fascinating) - How the world really works (To really understand that if the green future is really possible) - Natural Language Processing in Action (To understand how text models like GPT-3 really works

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23156763-anmol-saini?s...