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Bestsellers and Award-Winners

Check out our "Titles of Note", covering best-selling lists from Book Sense.

For the Reader

DCLS Top Requested Books

For keeping track of what you've read and what you'd like to read.
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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:

            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:

 

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