I'd probably rephrase the original statement in the title as "Don't only read what other people are reading." I do agree that there is some value in getting "of

I'd probably rephrase the original statement in the title as "Don't only read what other people are reading." I do agree that there is some value in getting "off the beaten path" from time to time, and I see that as being something of a feedback loop with what you're talking about. I believe that a lot of what a reader takes away from a Work A (which everyone reads) involves what is in the reader initially, which may be related to their having read Work B (something pretty much no one reads). Anticonformity IS conformity. Well said.