Indypub: How do you find indie books?

Writers, publishers, readers (mostly readers) – where do you get recommendations for your favorite independent books?


Because good grief, I'm having problems finding out anything beyond:



Book reviewers that have reviewed my books
Book reviewers that I meet online via Twitter/FB
Kindle boards
Nook boards

Goodreads has LOTS of indy books listed, but if you're specifically trying to find indy books, it doesn't help.  Well, unless I'm doing it wrong.  The Nook/Kindle boards seem good for weeding out indy books, but bad for quick and easy finding of something good to read, in a specific genre, with pretty pictures and back-cover blurbs.  You know, like there are for big-publisher books.


I have two purposes here:


1) I want to read at least one superior-quality indy book a month that ISN'T written by someone I know via Twitter directly (although I won't stop reading those), and I want to spend less than 10 minutes finding it.


2) If I find a good place to find said books, I want to list mine there (of course).


Book review sites are good, but they're limited by the number of people working there.  I want an aggregate or a list-builder or something.  Most recommendation sites give you…big-publisher books.


So help me out:  what am I missing?  How do you find your indie books?  If you have a book review site, let me know; I'm going to start a personal link list of good review sites, especially the ones that I use to find books to read.

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Published on October 01, 2011 06:27
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