Websites for Readers
Best Seller Lists
The New York Times Best Seller Lists
BookBrowse At the core of this site is the collection of fiction reading lists, arranged by genre, location, series, and a smattering of other things. There is a section with reviews and one with forthcoming titles.
Overbooked Includes themed book lists, annotated lists of fiction and nonfiction titles, and popular books in the U.S., etc...
Oprah's Books Books from the Book Club, books seen on the show and in the magazine O.
Readers Advisory Link Farm Browse by Genre, Publisher, Bookstores, and Online Review sources.
Publisher's Weekly Best Sellers
Washington Post Best Sellers For the current week's selection click on
Bestsellers hyperlink listed under
This Week's Book World
Book News and Reviews
The New York Times Book Reviews
BookSpot This is a good all-purpose site that acts as a portal to book and author news, book lists, discussions, genre fiction, and a whole lot more. Also offers easy access to sites that have full-text classics.
BookPage The online edition of "America's Book Review." Includes author interviews.
Salon Lots of book news, but really more than just about books. This online magazine covers "culture, news, politics, and society."
BookTV on C-SPAN2 Each weekend, Book TV features 48 hours of nonfiction books from Saturday 8:00 AM to Monday 8:00 AM ET.
Award Winners
Book Awards This site covers all the major awards each with a long back list of winners.
Mystery Fiction
Stop, You're Killing Me! "This site is a resource for the lovers of mystery, intrigue and suspense books. Stop! has hundreds of authors, with complete, chronological lists of their books in this sub-genre".
The Mystery Reader Get news and reviews of the latest mystery novels. This site has also subdivided the genre into thrillers, police procedurals, cozy mysteries, historical mysteries, romantic suspense, and more.
The Poisoned Pen Web site of one of the three largest mystery bookstores in America. This site has new releases, reviews, bestseller lists, first novels, classic crime novels, and more.
MysteryNet Online mysteries, Mystery Greats, movies and TV, and books and resources.
Tangled Web UK Crime and mystery fiction online journal. A packed site with reviews of new works, genre bibliographies, a column by Val McDermid, and a lot more!
Romance Fiction
The Romance Reader Carries "the very latest news and reviews of romance novels."
The Romance Writers of America The official web site of the Romance Writers of America, a professional association of 8,400 published and aspiring writers. This site carries lots of Information including new releases, best-selling authors, award winning books, author resources.
Romantic Times Online The top-rated books from 1996- reviewed. Included is a pseudonym search.
Science Fiction
The SF-Site "SF Site is composed of many pieces. Twice a month since July 1997, we have posted a mixture of book reviews, opinion pieces, author interviews, fiction excerpts, author and publisher reading lists and a variety of other features. At the same time, we've maintained a comprehensive list of links to author and fan tribute sites, SF conventions, SF TV and movies, magazines and e-zines, writer resources, publishers and small press sites and many other SF resources."
Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction This site offers a database of historical fiction (HF) authors, links to HF sites, resources for HF writers, selected archives from the newsgroup
rec.arts.books.hist-fiction, and more.
Series and Sequels...
What's Next database This database of the Kent District Public Library helps you search adult fiction in series. You can search by author (last name, first name), titles, or by series name.
Young Adult Books in Series and Sequels Bettendorf Public Library's teen page offers a large vriety of books that can be searched by author or the title of the series.
Juvenile Series and Sequels
Graphic Novels
Lair This is a companion site to
No Flying No Tights. Lair aims at an adult audience but also extends to titles that have an appeal to both adults and older teens.
Teen Reads
Reading Rants! Out of the ordinary teen book lists where lists like Boy meets Book could entice you.
Teenreads A cool web site with book reviews, info on authors, reading guides, tips for book clubs and more, for teens.
NYPL's Books for the Teen Age Book lists with reviews prepared every year by the New York Public Library's Office of Young Adult Services.
Richie's Picks More book reviews for children and young adults and an option to receive updates via e-mail.
Favorite Teenage Angst Books This quote from Cathy Young, the creator of the site says it all. "This is Favorite Teenage Angstbooks -- a special place on the Web where it's okay to have zits, daydream, feel secret stirrings within, and wonder what on earth will happen next in your life. I've always tried to make Favorite Teenage Angstbooks a comfortable place for teen readers themselves, as well as to provide down-to-earth perspectives on YA literature for the adults in their lives."
No Flying, No Tights A web site reviewing graphic novels for teens. Fiction of all variety: science fiction, fantasy, horror, action and adventure, humor, realism, historical fiction, and romance.
Links to Comics and Graphic Novel sites Compiled for librarians, this is also a useful site for avid graphic novel readers.
Skokie (IL) Public Library's Teen Resources A wide variety of book titles classified by genre, award winning books, and more.
Skinny and Quick: Suggested Books for Next Day Reports Compiled by the staff of Mid-Continent Public Library, books are in three categories: thin, thinner, and thinnest! The books may be slim, but the picking here is not.
Outstanding Books for The College Bound Selected by a committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). The list is divided into five sections: fiction, biography, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. "In selecting these works for the list, the committee used a variety of criteria: readability, cultural and ethnic diversity, balance of points of view, contemporary and classical works, different genres, and availability."
Guys Read Offers motivation, initiative and leadership in encouraging teenage boys to read. Book lists with reviews and a place to vote for your own favorite book.
Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers The Quick Picks Committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association seeks books that teens, ages twelve to eighteen, will pick up on their own and read for pleasure. The list is geared to the teenager who, for whatever reason, does not like to read. Teen input is a vital aspect in the final decision of the committee.
Visit Your Favorite Authors Pick your favorite authors, click, and voila! you are at their official web site.
Book Discussion Guides
Reading group Guides Published by Random House, "these guides are designed to enhance a reading group's discussion of a book."
Reading group Choices At a loss to select a rousing book for a lively discussion in your book group? Take a peek at what others groups have read and enjoyed. Find a guide, browse recommendations...
Book Discussion Center BookSpot's book discussion center offers publishers' guides, discussion guides for teens and kids, and online discussions.
Book Groups
Book Group Guide from Random House This site gives you guidelines on joining an established group as well as on forming one of your own.
Book Group Basics From the Allegheny County Library Association.
Poets and Poetry Online
For students, members of the
Saratoga Poetry Zone, a group of poetry enthusiasts who meet regularly in the library, and all general readers who enjoy poetry.
Verse - Bartleby.com Contains original text of a number of English literature anthologies and volumes.
Anthology of Modern American Poetry Find biographies, analysis, and criticism on dozens of American poets. These texts complement the Oxford "Anthology of Modern American Poetry."
AmericanPoems.com Selection of poems and biographies of poets including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost, as well as contemporary writers.
National Poetry Month A web site of the Academy of American Poets, includes information on new poetry publications, related events, highlights, FAQs, and resources.
Academy of American Poets Poems, biographies of poets, historical and thematic poetry exhibits, events calendars, discussion forums, contest information, and much more.
Representative Poetry Online This anthology gives you individual poems in English which critics, teachers, students, and general readers have usually held in high regard.
Poetry Pages -
The Atlantic online audio poetry readings, reviews, and poems recently published in
The Atlantic print and online editions.
Authors and Literary Criticism
Twayne's Author Series Access to this site is provided by the New York State Library through LSTA funds. The site has full text critical interpretation and discussion of the works and chronology of 600 authors. The discussions of each author in the series are between 175-200 printed pages.
Online Literary Criticism Collection This Internet Public Library site contains over 4600 critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. Also includes links to other sources on the web.
SparkNotes A collection of online study guides on literature, as well as several other subjects. Study guides are written by self-proclaimed Harvard students and graduates who specialize in the subjects they cover.