Good Reads
Looking for book recommendations? News about the latest bestsellers? Want to peruse the latest headlines? Then you've come to the right place!
Bestsellers and Award-Winners
Check out our "Titles of Note", covering best-selling lists from Book Sense.
For the Reader
Novelist - A database of authors and titles- and much more
For keeping track of what you've read and what you'd like to read.
Library Thing
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For Book lists and links:
Overbooked - Forthcoming lists, starred review lists, genre lists, books and readers advisory links galore
Hennepin County Library If You Like – If you liked, then try… by title, author, subject and genre
For Evangelical fiction:
Faithful Reader – “Non-affiliated, non-denominational” website with the purpose of raising awareness of Christian books and authors through book reviews, author interviews and other book-related commentary
For Mysteries:
Stop You’re Killing Me – Includes author, character, series, location, readalike indexes and other mystery related links
For Romance:
Romantic Times – Reviews, links, romance resources, author links, etc.
For Science Fiction:
SciFan – One of the easiest sites to navigate for authors, titles, series, themes, etc.
The SF Site - Also includes reviews and links to just about anything related to SF
For Westerns:
Western Writers of America – Includes the Spur Awards, links to authors, articles and reviews
For Series:
Most of the genre sites above include series. Especially useful are “Stop You’re killing Me” and “SciFan”.
More comprehensive to all genres are:
- Kent District Library’s What’s Next – Possibly the most accurate database, but not keyword searchable
- Fantastic Fiction – A British site that includes both American and British titles, fairly comprehensive and accurate
- Mid-Continent PL Juvenile series and sequels - For Children's books in series
From the New York Times and Powell's City of Books
- The latest news about books from the New York Times as well as weekly book reviews.
- Check out daily book reviews from Powell's City of Books.
- Read up on what NPR has to say about the latest books and interesting authors.
Newsfeeds Updated Hourly
- Local news from Oregon Public Broadcasting.
- National news from National Public Radio.
- World headlines from the BBC Online.

