If you like movies, pick books that were made into movies you like. The books are always much better and provide a lot more detail. I tend to like books that a

If you like movies, pick books that were made into movies you like. The books are always much better and provide a lot more detail. I tend to like books that are rooted in some version of our reality and not sci-fi or fantasy, etc. There also is historical fiction - authors deeply researching that period of time to paint a realistic narrative but with fictional characters.