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Read a new review every day, Monday through Friday! The staff of the Williamsburg Regional Library in Virginia bring you short reviews of books, movies, and more.
Bookslut is a monthly web magazine and daily blog dedicated to those who love to read. The site provide a constant supply of news, reviews, commentary, insight, and more than occasional opinions.
Find complete author book lists (bibliographies), discover fiction books in a series, read descriptions of individual books, and search over 250,000 fiction titles using multiple criteria.
A compendium of booklists created by Morton Grove Public Library in Illinois. Browse for books grouped by genre, character, setting, subject, author and audience.
An online book review site with both current reviews and reviews for previous decades.
Information about all fiction genres with annotated lists, hot lists and upcoming new titles.
This site has thousands of reviews of mysteries and thrillers of all categories, and has more than 30 reviewers from the US, the UK, and Australia. Reviews are searchable.
A one stop site for professional reviews of books that collects book reviews from major online media sites that are available without having to register at a site or pay to read them. For each book listed on the site, they try to find at least three reviews on different web sites.
Timely and in depth reviews and articles about new books, with an emphasis on non-fiction, novels, and world fiction.
Based in Seattle, Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers (for now). Shelfari is a gathering place for authors, aspiring authors, publishers, and readers, and has many tools and features to help these groups connect with each other in a fun and engaging way.
Southern Ontario Library Service's list of links to sites under many categories: authors, awards, banned books, bestsellers, book lists, book clubs, reviews, bookstores, genres, etc.
Reading suggestions, fiction prize winners, blogs and more from this eminent newspaper's site.
Vancouver Public Library's recommendations for literature by ethnicity, form, genre, reading level, and more.
Find books to match your mood by selecting themes such as happy or sad and funny or serious.
Book clubs
A Canadian site with a focus on Canadian books. Includes book club guides that are searchable by author, title and category. Also includes resources for starting and running a book club.
Includes guides for book club discussions (searchable by author, title and category); author biographies and interviews; tips for book club meetings; a newsletter section with items of interest to book clubs.
Films based on books
Lists of movies based on books, popular authors whose books have been made into films, news about forthcoming films and new dvd releases.
Lists of books made into movies listed by movie title, year of release, book title, book author.
Historical fiction
Horror
Mysteries
Reviews, news, author profiles and more. This is the sister site of The Romance Reader.
Romance
With over 6,000 romance novel reviews and new ones every day, hundreds of romance author interviews, blogs, popular romance reader forums, industry coverage, and more, All About Romance continues to be the romance destination of choice for millions of readers.
Ratings and suggestions on current romance novels; also a good archive of older titles.
Science Fiction
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