Do you follow authors? I find that I am doing that more and more. I am interested in the lives of writers and if I look them up, then inevitably I come to know what is going to be out next in their output. I have a line of Susan Hill books and of Penelope Lively but I think both excellent writers are now in retirement so maybe those lines are now complete.
I follow Elif Shafak, Maggie O’Farrell, William Boyd, Kate Atkinson and Anthony Horowitz. They all have their own bookshelf sections. I can’t keep up with Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith or to some extent Robert Galbraith. With the Strike books, much as I love them, I feel the need to gear myself up and gather all my energy to tackle the next 1200 page tome.
There are random reads, leading on from a Sunday Times review maybe but they are fairly infrequent. It does mean I get to know the style of certain writers quite intimately….and it does give me very neat bookshelves!