Trying to decide what to read next used to be a big problem for me. Now I join or create challenges for myself. I like to have a "theme" each year for reading. I get almost all of my books from the library, and I read an average of 10 books per month. I read/listen in all formats print, ebook, and audiobook. I tend to keep my hold queue pretty full since many of the books I'd like to read have long waitlists.

Last year I wanted to explore genres outside of my normal go-to books. I chose 6 fiction and 6 nonfiction genres with the goal of reading 2 books from each genre. I also joined an online community that had a Genre of the Month Challenge that gave me a new genre each month and 4 prompts to complete by reading books.

This year I want to explore authors from other countries. I created my own long-term challenge to read fiction and nonfiction books by authors from 195 countries. I expect this will take me several years to complete. I also started using StoryGraph and joined a few other challenges. One challenge has prompts to help me read books on my TBR list.

I keep a list of books that I notice on Reddit or other places on my phone and when I don't have a lot of books reserved I just open my list and add a few more books. I try to keep a mix of books in my queue, but if I feel I'm reading too many of a mood or genre I'll make more effort to add variety.