Book recommendations are good. I really liked the SuggestMeABook subreddit. It'd be nice to have that here.

I think what those other places are missing are some kind of book club. If there's enough critical mass here, it'd be interesting if there could be small groups read a book together and discuss here.

I'm interested in what folks are reading, without judgment. You're reading a romance? Cool! Fantasy? Great! True crime? Excellent! Non fiction? Rad!

Are you enjoying it? Would you recommend it? That sort of thing. Just a chill place to learn about what folks are reading.

r/books seems to have a anti-nonfiction bias that I could do without.

I'd love it if we started a small little book club. I actually like reading books and talking to other people about them a lot. And I just think that would be super fun. All the ones that were on Reddit were just so many people talking that I just felt too anxious to even post.

I don't know how it would have differed from Reddit in this regard, but it would be quite suitable for a forum website to give thorough reviews of books. Some people give reviews of books on Tiktok where they just say the main topic of the book and that it's 'good'... good in what way? And like what other commenters have mentioned, some love too for nonfiction. Maybe we could even have discussions for fanfiction?

I don't think it's different from other book communities, but I'd like to see more focus on non-fiction book.