Reader's Advisory Links
Library Aware Newsletters
Subscribe to Newsletters on various genres, bestsellers, etc.
All Readers
All Readers features detailed book reviews from all genres as well as presenting featured authors, latest book reviews of your favorite books, or you can enter a book review and get listed as a scholar!
Book Browser: A Guide for Avid Readers
Booklists arranged by genre, topic, setting, time period, and more. Also lists of award winners, forthcoming titles, reviews, interviews, and links to reader advisory sites.
Booklist
From the American Library Association, reviews of a wide range of current books as well as titles published over the last 3 years. Also offers "bests" from the previous year and access to Book Links, designed to connect children with high-quality literature.
Bookpage
A monthly general interest book review available in both print and web format, BookPage covers the best in new releases. In the past 10+ years, BookPage has interviewed everyone from John Grisham to Norman Mailer, and typically reviews up to 100 of each month's new fiction, nonfiction, business, children's, spoken word audio, and how-to books. The tone is upbeat and literate, focusing on bestsellers as well as new discoveries.
Book Reporter
Ever craved a good book and just not been inspired by anything you see? Or felt annoyed that you bought a book that was merely so-so? Or closed a book and JUST wanted to talk about it? We know what this feels like. The Book Report Network aims to solve these reader dilemmas, with thoughtful book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, literary games and contests, and more every week. We hope you'll visit our websites and discover why since 1996 the Book Report Network has been the best place online to talk about your last great read – and find your next one.
Book Browse
Book Browse carefully selects from the most interesting current books and provides you with multiple reviews and a substantial excerpt of each. SO, don't judge a book by its cover... Read it for yourself!
Fantastic Fiction
Bibliographies for over 30,000 authors. Use the browse menu on the left to find an author by surname, or use the search boxes on the right to search for an author or book Information on over 350,000 books. Throughout the site, just click on a book to see its cover picture, description and publication details.
Lit Hub
Literary Hub is an organizing principle in the service of literary culture, a single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life. There is more great literary content online than ever before, but it is scattered, easily lost—with the help of its editorial partners, Lit Hub is a site readers can rely on for smart, engaged, entertaining writing about all things books. Each day—alongside original content and exclusive excerpts—Literary Hub is proud to showcase an editorial feature from one of its many partners from across the literary spectrum: publishers big and small, journals, bookstores, and non-profits.
Novelist
Find fiction titles based on favorite author, title or description. Browse lists based on genre or awards, search by subject heading, reviews, publishers. Read and use feature articles, book discussion group guide, and book talks developed exclusively for NOVELIST. To access this database in the library simply connect to the Internet and go under Favorites. From home go to the internet and type in search.epnet.com. You will be prompted for a user name which is Fiske and a password which is Novelist and you are ready to go!
Reading Group Guides
This website is part of Book Report Network.
Stop You're Killing Me
A site to die for... if you love mystery books.
We Give Books
We Give Books is a new digital initiative that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don't have them, simply by reading online. We Give Books combines the joy of reading with the power of helping others, providing a platform for caregivers and educators to inspire children to become lifelong readers and lifelong givers. We Give Books also helps some of the world's best, most inspiring, literacy organizations by spreading the word about their great work and by providing books to the young people these organizations support.
Book Trade
Amazon
Bills itself as the "world's largest bookstore." Good source for information on books currently in print. Searchable by title, author, keyword; can be limited by date, format, or age level.
Advanced Book Exchange
Abebooks™ is the world's largest online marketplace for books. Abebooks makes it simple and safe to find and buy—or list and sell—new, used, rare, and out-of-print books online. Bookbuyers love the variety of over 60 million books offered by more than 12,500 booksellers. This great selection delivers value for all: readers find bestsellers, collectors find rare books, students find textbooks, and treasure hunters find books they've been seeking forever.
Alibris
Alibris connects people who love books, music and movies to thousands of independent sellers around the world. Our proprietary technology and advanced logistics allow us to offer over 40 million used, new and out-of-print books to consumers, libraries and retailers.
Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc. of America
Your portal to the world of rare books on the internet. You can browse or search many of the members' inventories here, or look up dealers who are in your area or specialize in your areas of interest. You'll find many invaluable resources and links here, plus articles and essays on a variety of subjects by ABAA members.
Barnes and Noble
Bookspot
Bookspot.com is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. Features sites are hand-selected by editors and organized into intuitive categories, such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news and more.
Bookwire
Comprehensive source of information on the book industry. Reviews, author interviews, guides to literary events, industry news, classifieds, and annotated links to book-related sites.
Books on Tape
