- Book Trailers
Short video introductions to popular young adult titles.
- A Chair, a Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy (blog)
"A discussion of books, movies, and TV shows; with an emphasis on books for children and teens."
- Finding Wonderland (blog)
"We blog to share and celebrate young adult books, especially books with multicultural characters."
- Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!
"A group of booklists for those of you teens out there who need a good read, but are wondering if there’s life after Judy Blume and Brian Jacques." Besides the booklists, the blog features regular reviews and links to other teen lit blogs and websites.
- 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.
- YA Authors Cafe
Book reviews by "three YA authors who love YA books and helping get the word out about the works of our fellow authors."
- YALSA: Booklists and Book Awards
Lists of award-winning and popular books for teenagers from the Young Adult Service section of the ALA.
- 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.
- 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".
- Blogs (Author Blogs, Literary Blogs, Reviews)
- 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.
- New York Times: Books
NY Times Book Reviews
New York Times: Book Reviews: Archives
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.
- Salt Lake County Library System
"Find book reviews, author interviews, award winners, bestseller lists, and more.."
- Summer Reading Lists
A compliation of links to summer readings lists for adults, teens, and children, from news organizations around the country.
- What's Next?
Database for books in series; searchable by author, title, or series name.
- Genrefluent
Looking for books in a particular genre such as mystery, romance, sf, etc.? Try this site for suggestions. Includes special section for teens.
- Horror
- Mystery
- Science Fiction
- Miscellaneous
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this page last updated June 8, 2010