I remember first typing visual novel into Google out of curiosity after hearing my friend talk about it And stumbled upon this website, I then filtered the list and found Sharin no kuni ranked pretty high so I tried it and enjoyed it. Then came Clannad then Tomoyo's after story because she's the best girl, Little Busters, I still wasn't into visual novels much still until I started playing Majikoi and Sengoku Rance then I started enjoying the games.
However my interests have changed a bit I've been playing more "Dark" visual novels and getting into some weird shit. And I've also been teaching my self Japanese for a few months now, so I could read even more weird shit. Life is gr8.