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I find it very hard to find books worth reading. It’s so difficult to separate Signal from noise - there are just too many books and too few reliable curators. Amazon ratings, goodreads, some book awards, best seller lists - they all are sometimes hit, mostly miss for me.

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Depends on what you want to read. For fantasy and sci-fi fiction I really like the Youtube community. I did not expect this at all but there are a lot of great "Booktubers" in the 3-5k subscriptions range. Tiktok and Instagram have a lot more "vanity" people and it feels like more of a "look how much I read har-har" kinde of vibe and I avoid them completely.

It is indeed an odd challenge to find good books because I hate to be spoiled and that limits the search options quite a bit.

I used to be in that boat of not knowing what to read. Even using r/books didn't always give me good books.

Until, I realized Hacker News users sometimes recommend books in their comments, and the books are related to the topic being discussed. Also, sometimes there are submissions asking people to list their favorite books ever, favorite books read in a particular year, etc. It was a game changer.

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