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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.
Bestsellers and Award-Winners
Check out our "Titles of Note", covering best-selling lists from Book Sense.
For the Reader
For keeping track of what you've read and what you'd like to read.
Library Thing
goodreads
Novelist - A database of authors and titles- and much more
For book lists and links:
Overbooked – http://overbooked.org
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 – http://www.faithfulreader.com
“Non-affiliated, non-denominational” website with the purpose raising awareness of Christian books and authors through book reviews, author interviews and other book-related commentary
For Mysteries:
Stop You’re Killing Me – http://www.stopyourekillingme.com
Includes author, character, series, location, readalike indexes and other mystery related links
For Romance:
Romantic Times – http://www.romantictimes.com
Reviews, links, romance resources, author links, etc.
For Science Fiction:
SciFan – http://www.scifan.com
One of the easiest sites to navigate for authors, titles, series, themes, etc.
Which also includes reviews and links to just about anything related to SF
For Westerns:
Western Writers of America – http://www.westernwriters.org
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” (when it’s working).
More comprehensive to all genres are:
- Kent District Library’s What’s Next – http://ww2.kdl.org/libcat/WhatsNextNEW.asp
Possibly the most accurate database, but not keyword searchable - Fantastic Fiction – http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk
A British site, this includes both American and British titles, and seems to be fairly comprehensive and accurate - Mid-Continent PL Juvenile series and sequels http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/series/juv
Newsfeeds Updated Hourly
- Local news from Oregon Public Broadcasting.
- National news from National Public Radio.
- World headlines from the BBC Online.
