QotD: Book Recommendations

Where do you get recommendations for new books to read?

Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Mandie, Book 1)

My favorite resource is actually looking at what other authors write for other publishing houses that I like.  I've been reading books by Bethany House Publishing since I was 8 years old, when my mom first bought me a Mandie book.  She read Janette Oke (tagged books), the first few books of multiple series, and then when I got old enough, I bought the rest of the books to those series and read more from the library.  So now, it's easy to recognize the spines of other Bethany books on the library shelf.  They have expanded their number of authors all the time, and so that makes for a larger selection too! 

As far as my novels go, I don't tend to read what other people are reading, so it's not as easy to just skim through sidebars here at Vox.  So things like going to the bookstore and browsing the aisles is a good way for me to learn of new authors that I may not have heard of yet.  This is true in the crafting/knitting area, and the Christian fiction (tagged books).  I did used to troll the romance aisles, but I just can't find anybody I love as much as my favorite Romance author, Jude Deveraux (tagged books), so I stopped trying.

When I'm trying to see what new knitting books I want to read, I like to go  to a site that sell knitting books and see what is the most popular, like Knit Picks' bestseller list.  Then I search for those on the library site to see which ones we actually have.  General crafting books or cookbooks (other book loves of mine), I'm more likely to go browse the library shelves until I find something interesting and somewhat current.

I organize my reading here on Vox, and then in the last year or so, I've enjoyed working on author pages on Wikipedia (my wikipedia profile has some links) to keep up the book lists and info about the authors I'm enjoying the most.  I tagged all of my books here on Vox with the series name and the author name so it's easier for me to see them when I'm looking to remember what books I've read from which author or whatever.

I'm interested to see if anybody in my neighborhood answered this qotd, it was definitely interesting to me!