Updated April 2008
CHOOSING A GREAT BOOK
Allreaders.com
7 separate databases allow booklovers to find new titles.
Offers plot summaries and insight into the nature of the book, i.e.
bad language, violence, overall tone and the types of characters. This
site offers much more than mere genre searching.
WEB
SITE
Bud Werner
Memorial Library Staff Picks
Members of the library staff have selected a number of
their favorite titles and read-alikes. Built-in links allow you to reserve
a copy online.
It won't be hard to find something you will love here.
Bud Werner Memorial Library Link
Internet
Public Library's Literary Criticism
An excellent site offering comprehensive literary criticisms
and author biographies. One may browse the site by author, title, nationality,
or literary time period.
WEB SITE
Librarian's
Index to the Internet - Literature & Books
Created by librarians, this website offers links
to quality websites on all topics of literature. Good links to try are
authors, book reviews, fiction by genre, literature by country, and
study guides.
WEB SITE
Mystery
Reader
Reviews of a variety of mystery fiction as well as select
author interviews.
WEB SITE
Novelist
The database offers suggestions for student and adult
readers, author biographies, discussion questions, reviews and summaries
of contemporary fiction as well as links to author websites.
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Oprah's
Book Club
Link to Oprah' Book Club Archive. Discover titles by
year, read summaries, reviews, author biographies and view the online
discussion. You may need to join the Oprah Book Club, at no cost, to
view all titles.
WEB SITE
Overbooked
Provides hundred of links to websites which features
authors, publishers, reviews, suggested fiction by genre, and themed
booklists.
WEB SITE
Reader's
Corner
Offers suggested titles for romance, mystery and fantasy
fiction.
WEB SITE
Reading
Group Choices
Based on the book, Reading Group Choices: Selections
for Lively Book Discussions, this website offers book suggestions
as well as discussion guides. If their website does not have a guide
to a title, they give the Internet address (URL) to another site that
does. Each guide contains a picture of the book jacket, plot summary,
brief biography of the author, and discussion questions.
WEB SITE
Reading
Group Guides
A website devoted specifically to reading groups. Each
guide contains a picture of the book jacket, a brief summary, and discussion
questions.
WEB SITE
Romance
Reader
Reviews of a variety of mystery fiction as well as select
author interviews.
WEB SITE
SciFi.com
- Off The Shelf
Reviews of science fiction titles.
WEB SITE
What Should I Read Next?
Type in the last book you read and this website will give you a list of books you might like to read.
WEB SITE
