How do you decide what to read?

[admin]

Tell us how you decide what to read!

[Wanda]

I refer to Fully Booked's Top 100 Books of the Last 100 Years, and to BBC's The Big Read.

If you are looking for Fully Booked's list, you can refer to my blog here. http://wandafulworldofbooks.blogspot.com/2011/01/top-100-books-of-last-100-years.html

[Memnoch26]

... Popular and newly released books.... Or books that were made into movies or will soon be...

[malot1182]

Mostly recommended by other readers. I'm into Russian literature now.

[ehlanadanae]

(when in a bookstore) i go through all the display...book for book, aisle for aisle..and pick out those that catch my attention..and i don't normally care how long it takes me (but by average it takes at least a couple of hours)

[Wanda]

(when in a bookstore) i go through all the display...book for book, aisle for aisle..and pick out those that catch my attention..and i don't normally care how long it takes me (but by average it takes at least a couple of hours)

Couldn't agree more! Im like that too, i could spend a whole day in a bookstore:)

[Wanda]

Mostly recommended by other readers. I'm into Russian literature now.

Hi malot1182! What russian lit are you reading now? I've read Anna Karenina, and Have been planning to read War and Peace for the longest time but im being put off by its thickness:)

[ehlanadanae]

Couldn't agree more! Im like that too, i could spend a whole day in a bookstore:)

true true...that's why when i go for books i normally go alone..hehe.. my friends, although they sometimes read books, can't understand why i need to go up and down the same aisle for more than half an hour..they get bored while i'm having the time of my life..

[christine]

Mostly recommended by other readers. I'm into Russian literature now.

Hi malot1182! What russian lit are you reading now? I've read Anna Karenina, and Have been planning to read War and Peace for the longest time but im being put off by its thickness:)

Interesting...what books can you recommend for russian lit? The closest I have read was Ayn Rand's works such as The Anthem. She's Russian-American although I don't exactly think her writing qualifies as formal russian lit.

[christine]

I usually look for the books written by my favorite authors but I discover good books via recommendations of my friends. We sort of have an informal Book Club wherein we share about what we've read and suggest the books we like to each other.