What's the solution to this?
There are books mentioned inside books and movies that you like. Try those.
Search for a book in particular topic, append reddit. Go to reddit thread, and try books that appear in many comments are the most upvoted.
Search "books" on HN. You will get ~10 years worth of reading in about ~30 mins browsing.
You must have people that you look up to- professionally, among relatives, etc. There must be some people that are bookish? Take recommendations from them.
You must have a niche area of interest? Follow forums/groups of that group. What books come up more often? Read those.
There are a lot of such advice that I can continue with. Probably a whole blog post. But, that's for another time.
All advices above are practised by me. None are theoretical.