Subject Guide: Readers’ Advisory

Readers’ Advisory
www.readersadvisory.org

This is a place for librarians who provide RA services to share ideas, projects, and notes.  Run by librarians, it has lists of blogs and wikis that are relevant to book lovers and advisors.  Some lists include Book Club Resources, Award Winning Books, Books to Film, and lists of current best sellers from various publications.

 

Book Page Online: Americas Book Review
www.bookpage.com

This website, based on Book Page Magazine, has signed reviews and author interviews for up to 100 new fiction, nonfiction, business, children’s, spoken word audio, and how-to-books every month. 

 

Mid-Continent Public Library
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/

This public library system in Missouri has a well-organized and easy to navigate readers’ advisory page with award winning titles and suggested reading lists for kids, teens and adults.  Over 55 categaries for children include “Polly Waffle…Song Books for Children,” “Thicker Books for Third Graders,” and “African-Americans in the Old West.”  Recommended titles for adults are divided into 26 categories with names such as “National Park Fiction,” “Fiction for Genealogy Lovers,” and “Mysterious Librarians”

 

Book Wire
www.bookwire.com

Book Wire focuses on new titles, new authors, and the book industry.  It includes over 600 reviews from 2004 to the present.  An extensive list of resources includes hundreds of author websites, book websites, and review sources. 

 

Whichbook
www.whichbook.net

This site helps people choose what to read by offering opposites such as funny/serious, optimistic/bleak, or sex/no sex.  Users can then choose several options, and the site will generate book suggestions based on the request.   Books can also be chosen by character, plot, or setting.

 

Book Spot
www.bookspot.com

On this site, Bookspot’s editors have collected book-related websites together into groupings such as What to Read, Genre Corner, and Behind the Books.  Subgroups include websites about authors, publishers, literary critique, and book news and events.

 

Reading Rants!  Out of the Ordinary Teen Book Lists!
www.readingrants.org

Reading Rants! is an interactive blog by Jennifer Hubert.  In its tenth year, this book review source for teens contains lists by genres such as “Nail Biters,” “Riot Grrrl!” and “Slacker Fiction.”  Book review websites and blogs for teens, as well as Jen’s Yearly Top Ten Lists are also included.

 

Overbooked
www.overbooked.org

Overbooked provides annotated lists of fiction, “readable nonfiction,” and mysteries.  Lists include books which have received starred reviews, as well as genre lists and ”new and notable” books. 

 

Allreaders.com
www.allreaders.com

This site features an advanced search engine through which the reader can choose options such as time/era of story and tone of story, as well as detailed information about the main character, main adversary, setting, and style to find just the right book.  Book selections are annotated and often listed with read-alikes.

 

Morton Grove Public Library’s Webrary Reader’s Corner
http://www.webrary.org/rs/rsmenu.html

The Reader’s Corner at the Morton Grove Public Library has booklists that include fiction and nonfiction books in categories such as Motherhood, Middle East and Afghanistan, Books for the Bereaved, and Chicago: City of the Century.  An extensive list of websites includes sites on Book Reviews and Booklists, Book Discussion Guides, and Genre Fiction Websites.