Reading Resources on the World Wide Web
There are lots of free resources for booklovers on the Internet. These links don’t require a library card.
Suggested For Adult Books
Mostly Fiction: Booklists!, a project of the Waterboro (ME) Public Library, brings to one portal library-produced book lists from dozens of libraries. Books for adults, teens, and children are included.
If You Like…. is the reader’s advisory database created and maintained by Hennepin County (MN) Public Library.
ManyBooks.net provides free e-books, in print or audio format.
WhichBook.net, a project of the Chief Librarians of the United Kingdom, offers ways to search for new and classic books by setting a profile that describes what you like in a good book.
Bookwire's Book Awards brings together both major and less well known literary award sites, with lists of past winners in many different genres.
Who Reads What? publishes the annual results of a survey to celebrities on their favorite reading, undertaken by the Gardiner (ME) Public Library. Respondants include authors, performers, and politicians.
Reader’s Robot, a project of Thompson Nicola Regional District Library System (Kamloops, British Columbia), this database can be searched by genre and offers reviews written by the library’s users.
FictionFinder is a prototype that allows you to search for books based on such details as the places where they are set and by characters’ names.
AllReaders.com offers a search engine that allows the user to suggest the most minute details—in whatever combination—for a good read.
Stop, You're Killing Me! Guidance for mystery lovers looking for a particular series, subgenres, character, types, and settings.
Suggested For Teen Books
Bookwire's Book Awards brings together both major and less well known literary award sites, with lists of past winners in many different genres.
Mostly Fiction: Booklists!, a project of the Waterboro (ME) Public Library, brings to one portal library-produced book lists from dozens of libraries. Books for adults, teens, and children are included.
Reader’s Robot, a project of Thompson Nicola Regional District Library System (Kamloops, British Columbia), this database can be searched by genre and offers reviews written by the library’s users.
Recommended Literature Kindergarten to Grade 12 was created and is updated by California’s Department of Education.
California Young Reader Medal is awarded to authors for picture books, intermediate readers, middle school, and young adult books.
Suggested For Children’s Books