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Book Reviews, Booklists, and Suggestions for Future Reading

 

 

Caderbooks.com

Bestseller lists from 1900 to 1995.

  

The American Booksellers’ Association “indie list” – independent bookstore weekly bestseller lists.  Updated on Thursdays. 

 

Bookletters will keep you up-to-date on the latest books, what ever your interests. This free service allows you to sign up for regular e-mail newsletters with comments and reading recommendations in varied categories.  To sign up click here.

 

The Book Reporter aims to solve 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.

 

Bookseer is an interesting sight to get recommendations on what to read next.  Type in a book, you've recently read, and Bookseer will give you recommendations found on other websites (Amazon and Library Thing, to name two). 

 

Genrefluent is the official web site of author, editor, reviewer, reader, and librarian Diana Tixier Herald. It is a place to find out about new books for adults and teens who read for the fun of it. All reviews (with a few exceptions) are written by Di who usually reads 400-500 books a year.

  

Link to the New York Times  bestseller lists and “Books of the Times”  book reviews. 

 

Novelist, one of the Wellesley Free Library online databases, is a subscription online readers’ advisory tool.  It has all kinds of stuff: book discussion guides, author read-alike lists, award winner lists, recommended reads, and more! 

 

Overbooked  There’s a lot here for readers.  Use this site to find soon-to-be-published titles that have been well-reviewed in pre-publication journals.  Look for the “Hotlists” and “Starred Review Lists.”

 

Publishers Weekly  Go here for book reviews, bestseller lists, and news of the publishing industry. 

 

Reading Trails is a social network for readers who want to find out what to read next.  "Trails" are used to link books to one another.  Users can browse trails already in place, or create their own and write book reviews.

 

Use the “What’s Next” database to find information on adult and youth fiction books in series.  A series is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, etc. 

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