Readers' Advisory and Interests
- Beyond the Bestsellers
Minoa-produced annotated quirky books, 1992-.
- BookBrowse.com
Read excerpts of bestselling books and many of the best new fiction and non-fiction
titles. Plus author bios, interviews, reading guides, and more.
- Book Magazine
A bimonthly magazine for people who love books.
- BookPage
BookPage is a reader's guide to selecting the best in new books. Monthly
features include interviews with favorite authors, book news, and book
reviews in all categories.
- BookReporter.com
A site dedicated to book lovers and writers. Author interviews, book reviews,
and reading group guides can be found here. BookSense.com
Shop online at your favorite independent bookstore.
- Internet Public Library:
Literary Criticism
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical
websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by
title, or by nationality and literary period.
- The New York Times
Books
Bestseller lists, reviews, etc. Requires free registration.
- The Online
Books Page
An index of thousands of freely available online books.
- Reader's Robot
The Reader's Robot will try (with sometimes comical results) to match your reading tastes with books in its
database and suggest books you might enjoy.
- Bibliomysteries
Bibliography of mysteries with characters, plots or settings that are library
or book related.
- ClueLass
Comprehensive information about the world of mystery fiction. Includes The
Mysterious Homepage, a directory of websites related to mystery, crime,
and suspense literature.
- The Mystery Reader
Reviews of mystery novels. Organized by subgenre.
- Stop, You're Killing
Me!
Lists hundreds of authors of mystery novels, with complete, chronological
lists of their books. Books are also indexed by series character name, and
other attributes (character job, location, historical period, etc.).
- SciFan
A site for helping readers discover
new science fiction and fantasy books
and authors. Includes author bibliographies
and coverage of series, themes, and
forthcoming publications.
- Fantastic
Fiction
Bibliographies of science fiction, fantasy,
and horror authors, with book covers
and author photos.
- Internet
Speculative Fiction Database
A collection of bibliographic data on
works of science fiction, fantasy, and
horror.
- Locus
An online magazine of the science fiction,
fantasy, and horror publishing fields.
- The
SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction
and Fantasy
Book reviews, opinion pieces, author
interviews, fiction excerpts, reading
lists and a variety of other features.
- Abebooks
Easy to search service for buying and pricing out-of-print, used, rare and
antiquarian books.
- Alibris
Another huge out-of-print source.
- Amazon
Foremost Internet bookstore, includes comparisons and reviews.
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