For Book Lovers ~ A Reader's Advisory

Readers' Advisory is about matching a reader with his or her next good book. The resources below can help connect you to your next author, title, series, or topic.

Book Lovers Online Communities

Book Groups may enjoy browsing these Book Club Communities:
LitLovers.com provides recommendations, reading guides and suggestions for book clubs. ReadingGroupGuides.com is an online community for reading groups and offers book recommendations, reading guides, online discussions and more! Reading Group Choices selects books appropriate for book groups and suggests discussion topics for reading groups. Inspired selections from Independent Booksellers are available at IndieBound.org.

Share your love of books in person at our library. Our Adult Book Discussion Group meets each month in the afternoon. It's a fun, easy-going group with interesting discussions.

Get "linked in" with LibraryThing! Create a library-quality catalog of your books online and get connected with people based on the books you share.

Recommendation Search Engines

NoveList is a fiction database. Look up subject headings, reviews, annotations, author read-alikes, feature articles and much more. Have your library card number handy to access.

Books and Authors offers you a place to search for a book by genre or a new way to browse if you are not sure where to star. WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN lets you browse by Character, Subject, Location and Time Period, and get a visual representation of your matching books.

Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Forever blog offers monthly book reviews of newly published books.

Look for Booklist Online Newsletters- where you can sign up to have a Booklist Newsletters delivered to you via email.

Looking for a page-turner or the latest "hot" book? Check out The New York Times Booklist, Book Reviews from NPR, or discover your great next read at BookPage.com, the online version of the Book Review magazine available at the library. You see the learn more about Oprah's Book Club Collection. Or you can subscribe to daily book reviews at Bookforum.com

EarlyWord.com showcases books that are soon to be released and booklists of recommended books.

Do you want your next book to be more funny or serious, conventional or unusual? Whichbook.net lets you choose the qualities of your next book and then provides recommendations.

Book Lists

We also find ourselves continually reading, recommending or discussing books on the Modern Library's list of best novels and non-fiction. Editors' and readers' recommendations are provided (400 total).
 

The Best Books of 2011 from NPR