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READER'S TOOLS

BooksinPrint.com
The professional bibliographic database with more than 5 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, book, audio book, and video titles.

Booklist Online
Book lists, book reviews, and author interviews. The Editors' Choice lists are top-notch.

Essence Bestsellers
African-American bookstore bestsellers.

Fantastic Fiction
Bibliographies for over 10,000 authors, including series information and forthcoming titles.

Fiction Connection
Discover titles similar to those you already enjoy. Or browse titles by topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe and then read the reviews.

FictionFinder
Search for books, eBooks, and audiobooks by titles, authors, ISBNs, and other information such as literary awards and book summaries.

Fiction_L Booklists
Hundreds of current and archived book lists complied by librarians and arranged by theme.

Indie Next List
Monthly selection of new fiction and nonfiction books chosen by independent booksellers.

International Thriller Writers
Authors and titles from the various suspense genres.

LibriVox
Provides free audiobooks from the public domain recorded by volunteers.

Literature-Map
Allows users to spatially see the similarity among writers.

Mostly Fiction
New reviews of recommended fiction are posted each week.

Overbooked
Annotated lists of books which received at least one starred review in library journals.

The Mysterious Homepage
Awards, news and reviews of mystery novels.

New York Times Book Review
Extensive, searchable archive contains 50,000 book reviews back to 1980. Also find current reviews, first chapters, bestsellers, editors' choices, and a readers' forum.

NPR - Fiction
Reviews of new fiction.

NPR - You Must Read This
Favorite books of writers.

Reader's Advisor Online Blog
News, tips, and fun lists for readers' advisors.

The Romance Reader
Recommends romance novels by category and features readers' top ten lists.

SF Site
Reviews, news, interviews, and links to the best SF sites on the World Wide Web.

Stop, You're Killing Me
Mystery award winners and read-alikes.

USA Today Books
Book news and reviews, 2008 Summer Reading, and a weekly best-seller list.

What's Next - a Fiction Series Database
You can search by author, title, or series.

What Should I Read Next?
Quick and easy tool that generates read-alikes based on the 47,000 plus titles that its members have entered.

Whichbook
Inspiring tool lets readers select novels and poetry published in English since 1995 by mood, plot, setting, character type, plot shape, or length.


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