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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.

Oregon Book Awards

 

For the Reader

DCLS Reader's Page

DCLS Top Requested Books

DCLS new fiction on order

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
goodreads

 

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:

 

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