It sounds like you have a developed taste. Once you have that, the "Search Problem" of finding new fiction is a bit easier.
Try finding interviews of - or reviews/letters written by - the authors you admire. They'll usually reference some influential authors you can expand into. If a publisher/editor is sufficiently focused, you can recurse in that direction, too.
You can recursively apply this algorithm, adjusting priority by how much you enjoy the authors you've found so far.
This requires a little bit more up-front work, and you have to be willing to tolerate/toss out the occasional dud. But it's worked well for me so far.
The same trick works for movies, and art more generally.
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For example, see this interview of Karl Ove Knausgaard [1]. From there, you see some names you might recognize (Rene Girard, Rilke, Ibsen, Proust, Borges, Ferrante).
But you also find Paul Celan [2], Sigrid Undset [3], Knut Hamsun [4], Peter Handke [5]
This method has worked wonders for me in the past. I picked up the Three Body Problem when I heard George RR Martin praise it in an interview - "It’s a strong book, an AMBITIOUS book, a worthy winner [of the Hugo award].". The series was nothing short of extraordinary. If anything, he undersold it.
Try finding interviews of - or reviews/letters written by - the authors you admire. They'll usually reference some influential authors you can expand into. If a publisher/editor is sufficiently focused, you can recurse in that direction, too.
You can recursively apply this algorithm, adjusting priority by how much you enjoy the authors you've found so far.
This requires a little bit more up-front work, and you have to be willing to tolerate/toss out the occasional dud. But it's worked well for me so far.
The same trick works for movies, and art more generally.
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For example, see this interview of Karl Ove Knausgaard [1]. From there, you see some names you might recognize (Rene Girard, Rilke, Ibsen, Proust, Borges, Ferrante).
But you also find Paul Celan [2], Sigrid Undset [3], Knut Hamsun [4], Peter Handke [5]
[1]: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/karl-ove-knausga...
[2]: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-celan
[3]: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sigrid-Undset
[4]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32587.On_Overgrown_Paths
[5]: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Handke