Websites for Readers

Book Browse: Your Guide to Exceptional Books: This resource covers most of the categories below, so is highlighted here. It's a great resource used even by our librarian staff! Find your next great read! Reviews, recommendations, read-alikes, books by theme, author bios and interviews, resources for book clubs, and more. Access from anywhere using your library card number.

Choose from the Categories Below for Additional Resources:

The New York Times Best Seller Lists
Oprah's Books: Books from the Book Club, books seen on the show and in the magazine O.
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

The New York Times: Book Reviews
BookPage: The online edition of "America's Book Review." Includes author interviews.
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.

Book Awards: This site covers all the major awards each with a long back list of winners.
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.
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.

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.

No Flying No Tights: A website to provide curated reviews of Comics, Anime, and Manga. The author has "been recognized a national expert on comics: serving as an Eisner Award judge in 2007, speaking at national library and comics conventions, and writing an Eisner-nominated guide called Understanding Manga and Anime."

Reading Rants!: Out of the ordinary teen book lists where lists like Boy meets Book could entice you.
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.
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.

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 Group Guide from Random House: This site gives you guidelines on joining an established group as well as on forming one of your own.; From the Allegheny County Library Association.

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.
The Academy of American Poets: The Academy of American Poets: Features information on all Academy programs, audio and photographic resources, and links to other poetry sites on the Internet.

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.

For Readers