ARRT-Adult Reading Round Table of Illinois
Lists of popular fiction by genre and much more.
BookBrowse.com
Reviews and excerpts from chosen current books.
BookSpot.com
This website won the Librarian's Choice Award. BookSpot.com "is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. Featured sites are handselected by BookSpot.com editors and organized into intuitive categories, such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news and more."
FictionDB
Search this large database by authors of mysteries, westerns, romance novels, or other fiction genres. Book reviews and lists of books in series are included.
Overbooked
What to Read Next? By Anne Chambers Theis, this web page offers hundreds of links to lists of fiction, online book excerpts, and many public library reader's advisory web pages.
Reader's Advisor
This website promises to "expand your horizons one book at a time." It is provided by New York's Sachem Public Library.
Readers' Advisor Sites in Academic Libraries
For links to lists of popular books with plot summaries by, for example, the University of South Carolina to "Leisure Reading in Physics" from the Rochester Institute of Technology Wallace Library to "The Romance Novel Database" from Christiana Powell at the University of Michigan.
Reader's Advisory
Helpful links from Missouri's Mid-Continent Public Library.
Reader's Advisory
From books on baseball to Christian fiction, from the Civil War to women novelists, the staff of Wisconsin's Waukesha Public Library offer lists of recommended titles.
Readers' Cafe
From Maryland's Montgomery County Public Libraries, the Readers' Cafe offers an author of the month, book discussions, and readers' and librarians' choices.
Readers
Book lists, award-winning books, staff picks, and much more from Oregon's Multnomah County Library system.
Reading Lists from the Seattle Public Library
Devoted to celebrating the written word, Seattle Washington's Public Library staff maintain this page which offers book discussions, lists of great reads, and much more.
The Reading Room
Ohio's Rocky River Public Library offers keyword, author, ISBN, and title searching.
Sleepers
Don't miss these authors or titles! From Florida's Lee County Library System.
Webrary
Illinois' Morton Grove Public Library offers bestseller previews and links to websites for book lovers.
What Shall I Read Next?
Wisconsin's Arrowhead Library System offers booklists for children and adults.
Which Book.Net
Classifies books by characteristics such as "beautiful, bleak, happy, sad, funny, or violent".
Wisconsin Library Association's Reader's Section
Favorite web sites for readers.
American Library Association's Literary and Related Awards
Boston Globe Horn Book Awards
First presented in 1967, the Boston Globe Horn Book Awards for excellence in literature for children and young adults are among the most prestigious honors in the field. Each year a committee of three children's literature professionals evaluates thousands of submissisons from United States publishers and selects winners in three categories: Picture Book; Fiction and Poetry; and Nonfiction.
Caldecott Medal Winners and Honor Books, 1938 to the Present from the American Library Association
Children's Literary Prizes and Awards
From Christchurch City Libraries of New Zealand comes this internationally focused website for award-winning children's literature.
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
This searchable database was compiled and indexed by Lisa R. Bartle, Librarian.
Hungry Mind Review's 100 Best 20th Century Books
Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922 to the Present from the American Library Association
Young Reader's Choice Award
"The Pacific Northwest Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award is the oldest children's choice award in the U.S. and Canada. The award was established in 1940 by a Seattle bookseller, the late Harry Hartman, who believed every student should have an opportunity to select a book that gives her or him pleasure."
Best Seller Lists, 1900-1995
Provided by Cader Books, this website offers chronologic lists of best selling books in the 1900s.
Elton S. Karrmann Library's Current Reading shelves, main floor.
AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
AllReaders.com
Readers post reviews of books with suggested "read-alike" titles.
Reader's Robot
Visit the Reader's Robot to find "reviews that reveal the appeal" for thousands of books within 21 genres.
Reader's Advisory Services
Lists of fiction authors by genre from the County of Los Angeles Public Libary.
Stop, You're Killing Me!
This site is a resource for the lovers of mystery, intrigue, and suspense books. Find the lists of books by authors and characters, with complete chronological lists of books in this sub-genre.
What's Next
What's Next helps you search adult fiction in series, that is, two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits. This searchable database was created and is maintained by Michigan's Kent District Library.
Young Adult Books in Series and Sequels
From Iowa's Bettendorf Public Library
Readable Fiction Classics
Suggestions are posted by Wisconsin's Madison Public Library.
A Reading List for English Majors
A list of suggested readings by a Rutgers Professor, up to 1965 publication dates.
Recommended Reading List from How to Read a Great Book
Developed by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, this is a chronologic list of many great books.
Who Reads What?
Glenna Nowell of Maine's Gardiner Public Library polls famous folks, from governors to figure skaters, about what they're enjoying reading.
Books That Change Lives
By the Academy of Achievement, this list of books "provides vistors an opportunity to discover which books made a difference in the early lives of the most eminent achievers of our times...in their own words".
All About Romance
For and by romance readers, this web site offers reviews and biographies of authors.
Bibliomysteries
This site offers searchable, annotated lists of titles for which the setting, plots, or characters relate to the world of books, writers, archives, or libraries. Academic librarian Marsha McCurley develped this list of literary mysteries.
Center for the Book
Visit this website from the Library of Congress which promotes books, reading, libraries, and literacy.
Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Compiled by Ross Pavlac, this list of titles is presented by "Christian Fandom, an interdenominational fellowship of science fiction fans interested in the courteous and accurate representation of Christian viewpoints within the SF community".
Cozies: A Selective List
Selected and annotated by Helene Androski of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the crime and mystery fiction titles are recommened as being gentle, often having a writing style that is "graced by wit and literary illusion".
Fantasy Finder
Fantasy Finder provides links to resource guides, authors, and much more for this genre.
Literary Web: New Dimensions in Literature
For readers and writers of fiction and poetry, this website offers lots of links to literary resources.
The Mystery Reader
Editor D.N. Anderson provides "the very latest news and views of mystery novels".
Oprah's Book Club
Besides a list of those books recommended by Oprah Winfrey's book club, there is also an annotated list of recommended titles for children.
Reading Group Choices
Visit this site for lists of books read and discussed in reading groups across the United States.
The Romance Reader
Promising to give "the very latest news and views of romance novels", this web page is edited by D. N. Anderson and founded by Leslie McClain.
Western Writers of America
Members of the Western Writers of America vote for the best western fiction of the 20th Century.
If You Like...
Promising to be a "handy reference guide to authors and genres, the "If You Like" database is from Minnesota's Hennepin County Library.