I try to take recommendations from multiple places:

Friends and family

Goodreads

Social media/online personalities I enjoy

Algorithm recommendations (other people who bought that book also bought…)

And my personal favorite: wandering around in a bookstore until a title or cover catches my eye

This way I get recommendations with some context (this book is similar to another book I liked, or, Mary has good taste in fantasy books and highly recommends this one) and also some room for serendipity to find something I might not normally read.