@alyx I have similar problems myself. I seem to be an extremely picky reader nowadays. Perhaps one in fifty books I read gives me awe, and the rest are all more or less boring.

That's a terrible waste of time. I'd like to read amazing books, but I don't know how to find them. Almost all the recommendations seem to fail me (mostly friends, in this case), and only randomly picked books seem to have any chance to be awesome.

I've tried hard to find new ways to get recommendations and pick books, with little success.