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my two cents: It doesn’t work like this. Its not simply a question of what someone likes or doesn like.
Choosing a face or faces is dependent on a host of elements. For example, you are working with a text book. So, over long bodies of text, a serif face is easier to read than a san-serif face, so an example like Meta would not do. then you could ask who your audience it is, text books are relatively specific to one audience or another. If children, then you would want to consider how easy the read is, should the x height be tall or short, etc...
In relation to this, the faces you choose should consider the layout of the book. If the page count is limited and you need to get so many lines on a page, and the size of the character is fixed in relation to the viewer, you need to choose a face that can do it appropriately.
Also, speaking in aesthetic terms, there is much to be said about relating the proportions of the page and the layout and the typeface/faces. there is much research into this out there.
So perhaps start with the criteria for the project. then developing the page and its elements (layout, structure, typeface) happens in conjunction to one another.
though there are many books out there, I would suggest beginning with Robert Bringhurst's "The elements of typographic style" and also begin with a book like "The history of the book" (author is slipping from me at the moment)...
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