Classifies books based on plot, setting, character, and writing style. If you know what kind of book you like, you can find other authors who write similar stories.
A free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. Featured sites are hand-selected by BookSpot.com editors and organized into intuitive categories, such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news and more.
The Book Report Network provides book reviews, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, literary games and contests, and more every week.
An online service to help people catalog their books easily. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books. Has a Book Suggester and a Book Unsuggester!
Online since 1994, Overbooked is a resource for "ravenous readers." Like a good library, Overbooked provides access to all kinds of book related information.
A resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books with nearly 2,200 authors. Books are listed in chronological series order with non-series book list underneath.
Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company, finances this award. It is given annually for the best full length novel by an author from the UK, a Commonwealth, or South Africa. In 2002 it became known as the Man Booker Award.
A series of annual awards provided for by the will of Alfred Nobel, which recognizes outstanding contributions for the benefit of mankind in six areas. For literature, the prize is for the author’s entire body of work.
This award was founded in 1980 by writers to honor their peers and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the U.S. It is named in honor of William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers.
Awarded annually since 1917 and named for newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The Fiction Award is given annually for fiction in book form by an American author and preferably dealing with American life.
The Quill Awards are a consumer-driven celebration of the written word created to inspire reading while promoting literacy.
For more book awards see genre sections: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Inspirational Fiction, Multicultural Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Teen Fiction.
Devoted to current fiction and nonfiction books. Contains information for starting a book club, including hundreds of discussion guides “with a substantial excerpt and multiple reviews of each book.” Also features interviews with authors, bestseller lists, discussion forums, and more.
Read along with Oprah and millions of other readers! Get in depth book summaries and discussion questions for your book clubs, learn about the authors, and more.
Hundreds of titles (all published by Random House) are grouped into themes, including African American, books made into movies, nonfiction, historical fiction, women, short stories and essays, biography, and young adult.
“Reader’s Circle is a free public directory that specializes in listings for book clubs and reader’s circles. Anyone may post a listing or search for a group by zip code — all for free.”
Contains a wealth of primary literature content, including full text poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays from all time periods and more than 600 nationalities. Biographies, work summaries, and photographs of authors are also included in the database. Information can be searched by keyword, author, subject, work title, nationality, and more.
Download (check out) one of over 1300 available audiobooks and language learning programs published by Recorded Books. Choose from best-sellers, book club favorites, award-winning authors, classics, and more. Get more information about this service or go directly to NetLibrary to start browsing or searching the collection.
Find the perfect book with this reader’s advisory service. Contains over 120,000 fiction titles including picture books, children’s “chapter” books, teen titles, and books for adult readers. Searchable by title, author, series, plot description, read-alikes, etc. Also has booklists on a wide range of topics as well as book discussion guides for book clubs.
Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map. of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors.
LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
Tired of wasting time and money on books because of the critics' reviews on the back cover? Can't agree on the next selection for your book club? Discover good books to read with book recommendations from real people who like the same things as you.
StoryCode.com is a unique source of inspiring book recommendations and a great way to find the next book to read. And its power comes from the collaborative passion of readers.
Gathers from a variety of sources the best nonfiction suggestions from trusted authorities in various disciplines (authors, professionals, media personalities, etc.) to help you find that next great book to read.
Whichbook gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood. Instead of starting from the overwhelming choice of books available, whichbook starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of that elusive 'good read' we are all looking for but don't quite know how to define.
AbeBooks is the world's largest online marketplace for books. Whether it's new, used, rare, or out-of-print, you can find it here, through our community of over 13,500 independent booksellers selling 100 million books from around the globe.
Bartleby.com does not include as many titles as other sites, but its content and structure make it special. You will find the usual classic novels, but you will also find an impressive collection of reference books.
Everything at this site has now been placed in the public domain with a Creative Commons deed (except two or three pieces copyrighted by others and used by permission).
The EServer publishes over 30,000 works in the arts and humanities free of charge to readers online. It includes a variety of literature-related materials, including text archives of prose, plays, poetry, and fiction.
In connection with NetLibrary, the Provo City Library has over 1600 titles available as downloadable eAudiobooks. These digital versions of the latest bestsellers, book club favorites, award-winning authors, language learning courses and more can be downloaded to your computer and listened to on your computer or portable listening device. Click on the link for more information about this service.
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and make them available for downloading on their website. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
Celebrating five years of the successful Book Sense program, the first compilation of "must-read" adult titles selected and annotated by trusted and experienced booksellers.
Nancy Pearl, a longtime reader, book reviewer and public librarian, presents a hundred or so of her favorites in this novel guide to finding the right book for the right mood. Presented in eclectic categories of people, places and themes, each of her suggestions is accompanied by a few of her thoughts on it, a succinct plot summary and often information about the volume’s prizes and print status.
Some book clubs feed the body as well as the mind. Anyone who's hosted such a gathering knows how difficult it can be to serve food appropriate to the reading if one has as a goal a sort of bond linking the book at hand with the dining table. Gardner offers a month-by-month reading list complete with recipes appropriate to each title.
Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known publishing correspondent and self-described "readaholic" Sara Nelson. From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M. to Captain Underpants, the result is a personal chronicle of insight, wit, and enough infectious enthusiasm to make a passionate reader out of anybody.
This newly revised edition includes updated reading lists and bibliographies plus additional suggestions on group dynamics; organizational, administrative, and logistical issues; and discussion techniques garnered from extensive surveying of book groups. Jacobsohn covers everything from cookies and coffee to how you diplomatically deal with "the rambler."
To celebrate the library's 1895-1995 centennial, the librarians at the New York Public Library were asked which books helped shape and define the last hundred years. This book is their response: From The Time Machine by Herbert George Wells in 1895 to The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog by Ed Krol in 1992, the librarians present their 204 selections.
In this updated selection guide, the popular fiction genres of westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, and romance are not just embraced, they are defined, analyzed, and organized, with lists of notable authors, titles, and anthologies.
Herald's guide covers nearly 1,400 titles and authors for popular teen genres of historical novels, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, suspense, horror, adventure, sports, romance, and contemporary novels.
Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan. Among the genre categories that can be found are romance, science fiction, crime novel, horror, adventure, fantasy, humor, western, war, Christian fiction, and others.
Rollene Saal has written a comprehensive and thorough guide to running a reading group. Covering the basics in the chapter "Getting Started," from finding members to running the first meeting, Saal helps the beginner lay down the rules in a no-nonsense style that lets folks know you're serious about your book club.
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