Reader’s Tools

• Author Lists (Readalikes) from Sioux City Library
  Find authors by popular fiction categories.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• StoryCode
  Discover read-alikes for titles, or register to get suggestions or coding stories.
• 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.