Reading books is akin to eating. You will only enjoy and continue eating food that suits your palate. So, how do you pick books that “suit your palate”? Selecting a book to read sounds simple enough, but there actually is an art to it. Here are some questions you can ask yourself before choosing your books and also some book-choosing tips I have discovered from my own reading experience that may help to enhance your own.
1) Do you prefer stories written in the first-person or third-person account?
2) What type of writing style do you like? Descriptive? Action-packed? Lots of dialogue?
3) What length of story are you comfortable with? Trilogies? Multiple-book series? Short stories? This is very important, or you will probably loose interest halfway through.
4) What kind of era do you like your story to be set in? Ancient? Modern? Futuristic?
5) Always look up book reviews on the internet first before deciding to buy a book. (Amazon is a good choice) Through these reviews, you will be able to get a glimpse into the story and you can decide whether the content of the book is to your interest.
6) Try to read free excerpts of the book on websites such as RandomHouse (it provides the first chapter free) before buying it to get a feel of what the story is like.
7) Always choose the genre that you like.
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