Kindle Unlimited Subscribers discussion

I belong to several book groups connected to Kindle Unlimited membership. It's an awkward catalogue to choose a book from as there are many first time published and self published authors with no track record and I've read quite a few stinkers, self published with badly edited copy, in there despite the odd hidden gem. That's why I had hoped to find discussions from genuine members in this group who read KU books regularly. However, every time I log into KU groups there are no actual readers of books and only self promoting authors or publishers. I went onto my location fb book group, asked for KU members to let me know which books they read (said I wasn't interested in crime Procedural, romance or chick lit) and could anyone suggest a book from the catalogue. Disappointingly every person replying to my post was a newly published author of the KU programme, promoting their own book in the genres I said I wasn't interested in. I came on this Goodreads group today hoping to see discussions and recommendations of books from other readers. I can't find any. Only posts by authors suggesting their own book.

So, are there any readers on here with a KU membership who aren't authors or publishers, who can let me know if they've read hidden gems in the KU catalogue? Or are all 293 members of this group authors with books to market in the KU catalogue? Really, I feel if KU authors enter readers discussions, promoting themselves to ask members to read their book then nobody is going to benefit from social networking spreading word of mouth and increasing popularity of a book. And if readers don't share which good books they've found buried under 1 million other books, then KU will just have people cancelling
because they couldn't find anything to read.
Authors you should realise a group, set up for members, needs to be handled delicately. Otherwise members switch off and go elsewhere. I doubt it was authors intentions to just market peer to peer and have other authors aware of their books. When revenue from membership is divided by proportion of material read, you're all in competition to bag the lion's share.

I'm not going to read any book the author suggests to me when I've asked for readers recommendations. In fact, to be frank it completely turns me off.
And wouldn't be surprised that lack of reader reviews and authors suggesting their own books has meant no members have started topics.

So, is anyone of the 293 members of this group a member of KU who is not an author?

I'm sounding a bit off and a bit grumpy because to be brutally honest I totally support debut authors and love reading 50 or 60 novels a year and I support self publishing as a fairer way to get a novelist put there, but it's infuriating to see authors ruining it with too much self promo.

Here's a group of mostly all readers.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Also, what genres are you interested in?

I like classics (Dickens, Hardy, Austen, Wilkie Collins), historical, literary, Sci Fi (E. G. Philip K Dick, Hugh Howey's Wool trilogy), fantasy (E. G. The Hobbit, C S Lewis), thriller, suspense, YA. I can't pick a favourite genre but I like single hooks that stand out rather than long series. And I prefer a book that doesn't quite fit into a single genre that attracts readers who wouldn't normally go for that genre. The only thing I'm not keen on is Romance, but having said that I still enjoyed Brontës' and Austen's novels. Chick lir I usually avoid hut even then I found the Bridget Jones Diary books funny.