Lost in the vast sea of books

I don`t know whether it has happened to you, too, but there were days when I browsed the internet for hours in the hope of finding a good book - in vain. By good I mean a book that I was tempted to read. I gave in search words like "women adventure" (I meant outdoors adventure and mistakenly got erotic adventures!) or "biography" (and got hundred of books I did not want to read). Sometimes I gave up in dispair.
Very rarely I found a treasure by coincidence.
Why did I not go to GoodReads earlier? I don`t know but I`m glad that now, I can dive into the lists that readers like you have accumulated - a fountain of knowledge and good advice!
And I am trying out all the options that are offered to me on this site. So bear with me, I will calm down later...