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Overbooked: A Resource for Omnivorous Readers
Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about fiction (all genres) and readable nonfiction. Overbooked has been online since 1994. Overbooked is a work in progress . . .

Morton Grove Public Library
This library in Illinois has put together a comprehensive website on resources for books, book clubs, publishers, and all things literary.

If you like…
Hennepin County (MN) Library has created "readalike" lists for all sorts of books, from older titles to the most current.

Project Gutenberg
Free books! More than 13,000 electronic books, produced by hundreds of volunteers, are available here.

AllReaders.com
There are a zillion book review sites out there, but ours is different! For starters, we classify books based on plot, setting, character, and writing style. Therefore, if you know what kind of book you like, you can find other authors who write similar kind of stories.

Book Crossing
An online community for trading books. Reviews, recommendations and ratings, plus listings of places where books have been released locally.

Fresh Fiction
Heard about a great book on the radio? Saw an author interviewed on your favorite TV show?Fresh Fiction compiles daily a list of books highlight on popular radio and TV shows.

Reader Resources
A collection of websites to help you find your next book.

What's Next
The What's Next: Books in Series (TM) database helps you search series fiction. You can search by author, series name or the title of a book in a series. This is an easy way to see what book you should read next!

 

 

Book Club Resources

Book Discussion Kits
Need a copy of the title for everyone in your book club? Check out one of our book discussion kits! Each kit comes in a canvas bag with ten paperback copies and a reading group guide. They go out for 6 weeks and cannot be renewed.

Reading Group Guides 
Thousands of book discussion guides.

LitLovers
An online community dedicated to books and book clubs—because both enrich our lives. What can you do on LitLovers? What can't you do! Find a book. Find a review. Find a discussion guide. Take a course. Whip up a recipe (to match your book, of course)!

Reading Group Choices
Reading Group Choices provides tips for the new book group leader as well as hundreds of selections for book group discussions.

Book Reviews

Bookpage
A reader's guide to selecting the best in new books.

Bookspot
Links to a number of newspaper and periodical book reviews.

Publishers Weekly

New York Times Book Reviews

Best Seller Lists

New York Times

New York Times Best Seller Listings
Fiction and Non-fiction best seller lists from 1970-today.

USA Today

Publishers Weekly

IndieBound

 


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