The only problem with this strategy is that you lose some of the magic of book discovery before the internet, when wandering a bookstore or library was the main way readers discovered new titles. While I appreciate reading the books everyone is raving about, there’s something special about pulling a dusty volume off a shelf in a forgotten corner of a used bookstore and losing yourself in a narrative I know nothing about. There are so many books published every week that it is impossible to keep track of them all. Some, despite being fantastic reads, never get the publicity to be heard through the noise. If you appreciate finding little-known gems in your reading life, you’ll want to pick up some of these titles. Each of these is championed by a Book Rioter, and each has fewer than 250 ratings on Goodreads. (For context, The Hunger Games has 6.6 million ratings. In Watermelon Sugar has 14,000.) Can’t get enough little-known gems in your reading life? Check out our previous editions of The Best Books You’ve Never Heard of!
