Books for Teens 

• Teen and YA Literature Blogs
  • Bettendorf Public Library Teen Services
  • A Chair, a Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy
  • Finding Wonderland
  • Muller in the Middle
  • ProperNoun.net
  • Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists
  • YA Authors Cafe
• Teen Books and More
  Part of the Teen section of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburg, this page offers Staff Review, Teen Reviews, links to awards lists, blogs, and magazines, and more.
• teenreads.com
  Reviews of books by author or genre, with many author interviews available.
• YALSA: Booklists and Book Awards
  Lists of award-winning and popular books for teenagers from the Young Adult Service section of the ALA.

 Book Suggestions

• Booklamp
  "BookLamp.org matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music."
• Find a Good Book
  A database to help patrons find award-winners, best-sellers, new and forthcoming books, and - especially - in the "If You Like..." sections, books similiar to ones they know they like.
• Genrefluent
  Looking for books in a particular genre such as mystery, romance, sf, etc.? Try this site for suggestions. Includes special section for teens.
• If You Like...
  "If you like books in a certain style or by a particular author, you may wish to explore some of these."
• Library Thing Book Suggester
  Input books you like and those you don't like, and the suggester will come up with a list of other titles you may enjoy.
• Literature-Map
  Plug in an author you like and receive suggestions of other authors whose work you may enjoy.
• OCLC FictionFinder
  Uses a tag cloud of subjects to guide readers to books they may like.
• What Should I Read Next?
  Input the author and title of a book and get a list of other titles you might also like.
• What's Next?
  "Our What's Next?: Books In Series™ database helps you search series fiction. A series is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits."
• Whichbook.net
  Recommendation database accessed by select sets of criteria on sliders with selections such as "Easy -- Demanding" and "Funny -- Serious".

 General Books - Lists and Reviews

• Blogs (Author Blogs, Literary Blogs, Reviews)
  • Authors on the Web (links to author blogs)
  • Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors
  • Links to Literary Weblogs at the Complete Review
  • Literary Saloon: the literary weblog at the Complete Review.
  • ReadySteadyBook - a literary site
  • So Many Books - the agony and ecstasy of a reading life (great links)
• AllReaders.com
  "Allreaders.com features detailed book reviews from all genres as well as presenting featured authors, latest book reviews..." Features reader-written reviews.
• The Best Author Blogs
  A selected set of links to author blogs and to other sites with such links.
• BookBrowse.com
  "BookBrowse carefully selects from the best current books and provides you with multiple reviews and a substantial excerpt of each, plus author interviews and biographies, reading guides, giveaways and quizzes."
• BookReporter.com
  Online magazine offering book reviews, author interviews, booklists, and more.
• The Book Spoiler
  Short reader-contributed reviews of popular books.
• BookSpot.com
  Best seller lists, awards, book reviews, reading lists, and more.
• Complete Review
  "A selectively comprehensive, objectively opinionated survey of books old and new, trying to meet all your book review, preview, and information needs."
• Google: Literature: Awards and Bestsellers
  Links to sites for various literary awards and best-seller lists.
• LA Times Book Reviews
  Los Angeles Times book reviews online.
• Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes
  "This guide is intended to help readers identify a literary work when they know only its plot or subject, or other textual information such as a character's name, a line of poetry, or a unique word or phrase." From the Library of Congress.
• National Book Foundation
  Current news in books and literatures, and lists of current and previous finalists and winners of the National Book Award.
• New York Review of Books
  Online version of the popular periodical. Includes archives.
• NY Times Book Reviews
  New York Times: Book Reviews: Archive
  Read current reviews, or search the archive for book reviews back to 1963.
  
• Overbooked
  "Overbooked originals include annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which received starred reviews, themed booklists, featured titles lists and hot lists of hard cover US fiction releases."
• Reader's Robot
  Reader (not critic) reviews of nearly 20,000 books in 21 genres.
• ReadySteadyBook
  Book reviews by an award-winning poet.
• Sites for Book Lovers
  "Find book reviews, author interviews, award winners, bestseller lists, and more.."