How do you decide what to read next?

[Anonymous No.16992565]

I just read a YA series and I have no idea where to go from here. I'm considering a classic next. Does anyone use a system to figure out what they're gonna read next? I find this gap of indecision is usually what causes me to stop reading for months at a time.

[Anonymous No.16992600]

>>16992565
I grab ze book
I open ze book
I read ze book

[Anonymous No.16992604]

>>16992565
build yourself a solid cultural background, find some movements or period that interest you and you'll have always things to read
since you want to read a classic, you'll read either Flaubert's Salammbô, Xenophon's Anabasis, Gogol's Dead Souls or Poe's short stories now

[Anonymous No.16992618]

I started reading this summer and I constantly know what to read next, so I can't relate. When I'm at the end of one book I get excited for another one I have in plans so I usually read the end pretty quickly.
Right now I'm reading the Greeks though, and it's kinda natural, because I want to know what the Odyssey is like while reading Iliad, etc., and after that I want to know some other stuff and dive deeper.
But with some YA series I can see your problem, because it's not really interconnected. Classics are, that's why reading it chronologically is great, because many of them reference to each other and argue even. Philosophy even more.

[Anonymous No.16992753]

>>16992618
I find that if I read the same thing I get burned out, I switch genres between reads. plus i'd imagine this will always be an issue when i read a series, once a series ends it's like okay i've been here for this long and it's definitively over so what now?
>>16992600
but there are so many

[Anonymous No.16992762]

>>16992753
One of them will be closer than the others when you reach out.