Lovers of Paranormal discussion

Hello,

I'm not much into the social aspect of Goodreads, and only recently joined this group in an attempt to find nice books that I hadn't read yet. However, I figured I might as well take this opportunity to ask other people how they go about finding books. Especially when you've read a lot already.

Personally I like Fantasy, Paranormal, and Urban-Fantasy books. I also very much like shifter/werewolf books, sort of a guilty pleasure (well, all of this is, really). Except there are really a lot of crappy books in these genres out there, and I do my best to discover ones that are actually decent. I must admit that I spend quite a lot of time judging books by their covers. Alas.

Some books that I really liked, so you get the gist:

Throne of Glass (this whole series) Fighting Destiny Darkfever (whole series, obviously) An Ember in the Ashes A Creature of Moonlight Gates of Thread and Stone The Sweetest Dark

I'm a fan of girl protagonists who kick ass.

So what I am looking for, besides from your recommendations on what to read based on what I've written so far, is to know the ways you go about finding new books. I sometimes get discouraged because I've read so much already, so the listopia section doesn't help me much anymore, and although the new releases are handy, and this is where I sometimes do find new nice books, I really don't like it when I've got an awesome book 1 but then have to wait forever for book 2 to come out.

What I currently use for searching:

* Listopia (best books of X year, Best Paranormal Series, etc)
* New releases (sometimes helpful, but not enough new stuff!)
* Recently when we had the book of the year voting thing going on, I realized you can actually see the nominees for previous years by changing the year number in the url, score!!)
* Join random groups about my favorite genres and see what people are reading and recommending! Hi group!
* The recommendations tab (it's just not enough)

I look forward to hearing your tricks and suggestions! :)

Thanks for taking the time to read this if you got this far!

Welcome Tigrish! One of my favorite things about this group is around the last week of the month, I put out an open call to nominate a group read for the following month and people drop in nominations for things they either read and liked, or saw and think might be interesting to read. And then we pick one and post it up top. Right now we're doing permafrees, but that changes with my mood and the level of interaction.

If you click into our 'bookshelf' (top-right, just below the banner) you'll see what books we had as group reads in the past. If you click into them, it will show you how other members in this community rated each book and their reviews.

Like you, I use listopia. I also follow several reviewers and depending on what mood I'm in I'll check in their book folders by genre. I've tried looking through the "readers also liked" suggestions, but a lot of times those books aren't anywhere as good as the one I had just read. Occasionally it works, though.

If you like Throne of Glass check out anything by Kristin Cashore.

I am old school and go to my local library :0)
I usually pick anything that I like the name of the book and go from there sometimes i good to find something i like to a similar author

I don't look for books, they find me.

I use Bookbub, I get a daily email about different genres on sale. I've found alot of good books that way. I also participate in the R2R , I've found some great books and its fun and I've made friends with the authors too.

I'm an old school library girl, too! :) I also love scouting the boards on Goodreads, comparing books. If someone has rated books I have read similar to me, I will look at their other high rated books and take those into consideration.

I'm a big believer in cultivating relationships with my friendly local indie bookstore owners. If anyone's more well-read and has an ability to say 'hey, read this one,' it's them. Just yesterday as I was leaving they handed me 2 ARCs free of charge because they thought I'd be interested in them. They will find you exactly what you need.

The other thing I do to find new books is to type in really random searches on Kindle, or into the card catalogue for my library. I'll make a game out of it, like I'll search "gothic" in the library card catalogue, scroll to page 7 in the results, and pick a result from there. Every time I end up with the most bizarre but probably amazing book ever.

My most favourite site to find books is BookOutlet. They have both .com and .ca sites. They sell overstock books at really great prices. There's no guarantee what they'll have in stock, but most of the books on my massive TBR shelf have been bought from there - I just peruse what they have in stock according to genre and fill up my cart! Another great site that I've been using is Freebooksy. You sign up with them to get emails informing you of what ebooks within your preferred genre(s) are being offered for free each day on Amazon. Happy book hunting!

Freebooksy has a "sister" Bargain Booksy, with e-books on sale, often 99 cents. And it's not just an Amazon site. It lists sales on Nook, Kobo etc, if the author is publishing there. For those of us who don't do Kindle it's always good to find those!

I also go to the $2.99 and under link on the B&N web site and find Nook books that look interesting. It's amazing what gets put on sale. You get indie books on the newsletter sites like Bargain Booksy and then I've found literary classics and major genre authors on sale in this Nook "bargain bin."

The most common way I find new books is the "readers also bought.." section on my ereader.
There are several newsletters I've advertised with, if you haven't tried those. You can specify your genre and often even your preferred subgenres.
Bookbub
BookGorilla
Free/Bargain Booksy
Ereader News Today
BookSends
Fussy Librarian
My Romance Reads

Happy hunting!