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Selected Reader’s Advisory Websites and enewsletters
- Fiction_l Subscribe through Morton Grove (IL) public library website. This is the premier readers’ advisory mailing list http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
- All Readers.com http://www.allreaders.com Primarily fiction with biography and history genres (non fiction) Search by author to find reviews
- Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com provides bibliographic information, published review and customer comments on a range of titles. Includes genre lists, best sellers by genre and book discussion questions.
- Amazon.com’s Movers and Shakers http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/books
- Authors on the web http://www.authorsontheweb.com/
- Baker and Taylor Fast Facts http://www.btol.com/promo_details.cfm?id=185
- Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com Similar services to Amazon.com
- Bookbrowse http://www.bookbrowse.com Current fiction and nonficton by author, title and genre. Includes ratings by critics and members. Book discussion guides, best sellers and favorite book award winners.
- BookSpot.com http://www.bookspot.com/ Portal site for many book related sites, including bestseller lists, award winners and reading lists
- Amazon.coms Best of the Month http://amazonmonth.notlong.com
- The Arts and Letters Daily from the Chronicle of Higher Education http://aldaily.com
- BookSense Bestsellers http://www.booksense.com/bestsellers/index.jsp
- Coming Soon section of Barnes and Noble http://bncomingsoon.notlong.com
- Early Word http://www.earlyword.com/about
- Entertainment Weekly Book Page (but pay attention to the whole site) http://ewbooks.notlong.com
- Essence Bestseller List http://essencebest.notlong.com
- Gnooks http://www.gnooks.com For readalikes and reading suggestions
- IndieBound (formerly Booksense) http://www.indiebound.org/indie-next-list
- Kirkus (for the special issues, including one on the hottest upcoming titles)http://kirkus.notlong.com
- Library Journal Best Seller lists (based on books most borrowed or on hold in U.S. libraries) Fiction: http://ljbestf.notlong.com Nonfiction: http://ljbestnf.notlong.com
- Library Journal Review Alert (free newsletter with the titles of books that will be reviewed delivered about a month ahead of time) To sign up send an email to: LJ_Review_Alert_Subscribe@email.libraryjournal.com
- Library Journal’s Prepub Alert http://www.libraryjournal.com (click on Collection Development channel)
- LJXpress (for Xpress Reviews, the Word on the Street Lit, RA Crossroads, Tag Team Reviews, and more; scroll down toward the bottom of the page) http://ljx.notlong.com
- For back issues, under the Newsletters tab, here: http://ljxback.notlong.com
- Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bestsellers
- New York Times Best Sellers List (you can find this in a lot of other places; it is nice to see the list along with links to reviews such as the versions posted on Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com) http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/index.html
- The New York Times Book Section http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html
- NPR Books http://nprbooks.notlong.com
- Overbooked.org (find starred review lists and a fabulous RA resource list) http://www.overbooked.org
- Publishers Weekly Onsale Calendar http://pwonsale.notlong.com
- The Read Alert (you can sign up for the free newsletter and see past issues) http://readalert.notlong.com
- Readers Advice http://www.readersadvice.com Author Biographies and subject-based similar authors
- Readers Advisory Link Farm http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~pneskew/ra/
- Readers Group Choices http://www.readingroupchoices.com Fiction and nonfiction discussion guides
- Shelf Awareness (you can sign up for the free newsletter and see past issues) http://www.shelf-awareness.com/index.html
- Stop You’re Killing Me <http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/> Search for mysteries, thrillers, and suspense titles by genre, location, and historical time period, as well as by author and title
- Supper Sleuths (Beebe Library’s Mystery Group) Lists (http://www.wakefieldlibrary.org/book-discussion-groups/supper-sleuths/supper-sleuths-booklists/)
- USA Today Best Sellers List http://usatodaybest.notlong.com
- The Wall Street Journal Best Sellers List http://wsjbest.notlong.com
- What’s next? http://ww2.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp
- Yahoo! Book News http://yahoobooks.notlong.com
- Carnegie-Stout Public Library Blog http://carnegiestout.blogspot.com
Library Awards
- The Alex Awards http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/alex
- The Notable Book List http://notables.notlong.com
- The Reading List Award http://readinglist.notlong.com
Genre Magazines:
- International Thriller Writers http://www.thrillerwriters.org
- LOCUS Online http://www.locusmag.com
- Mystery Writers of America http://www.mysterywriters.org
- Romantic Times http://www.romantictimes.com
- Science Fiction Awards Watch http://www.sfawardswatch.com
Blogs
Fan blogs, publishing blogs, librarian blogs, and genre blogs.
- Amazon’s Omnivoracious http://www.omnivoracious.notlong.com*
- Ann Arbor District Library http://www.aadl.org/catalog/books
- ArtsJournal Blogs http://www.artsjournal.com/blogs.php
- Blog of a Bookslut http://www.bookslut.com/blog
- Buzz, Balls & Hype http://mjroseblog.typepad.com/buzz_balls_hype
- Cindy Orr’s RA Run Down (on Libraries Unlimited’s Reader’s Advisor Online Blog) http://raonline.notlong.com
- Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind http://www.sarahweinman.com
- Critical Mass http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com
- Dear Author http://dearauthor.com
- Early Word http://www.earlyword.com/
- The Elegant Variation (check out its huge blog roll to find even more book blogs)http://marksarvas.blogs.com
- Fresh Eyes Now http://www.fresheyesnow.com
- Give ’em What They Want (a blog from Early Word) http://earlyword.com
- Good Ton–A Resource for Readers of Regency Romance Novels http://www.thenonesuch.com/
- In the Bookroom (a blog from Library Journal) http://bookroom.notlong.com
- Likely Stories(a blog from Booklist) http://blog.booklistonline.com
- The Millions http://www.themillionsblog.com
- The New Yorker Between the Lines: http://emdashes.com/
- RA for all: (Dominican University RA teacher)http://raforall.blogspot.com/2009/08/patron-who-wanted-captivating-books.html
- Reading the Past (which also has a long blog roll of other historical fiction blogs) http://readingthepast.blogspot.com
- Smart Bitches Trashy Books http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com
Other Resources
- Adult Reading Roundtable http://www.arrtreads.org Adult Reading Roundtable website from Metro Chicago area; notes on their genre studies, annotated booklists and much more!
- SLIS Reading Group http://www.readalike.org/ Indiana U library students compile this RA resource includes all genres and nonfiction, reviews, and read-alikes.
- Audiobook catalogs http://www.audiobooksonline.com/catalog_audiobooks.html Links to current Audie Award winners
