Chesterfield County Public Library

Bestsellers & Book Related Sites

There are many different lists of best-selling titles as well as great places to find out more about books. Explore the links below to find the list that most matches your reading tastes and to find sites that provide you with book news you can use. Please note that while some of these sites are commercial in nature, the Library does not endorse one company over another. These links are provided for informational purposes only.

bestseller lists | sites about books | major book sites
book awards | book lists | book reviews
reader's advisory / reading groups and guides
genres & subjects / romance | sci-fi & fantasy
mystery / horror | christian fiction / historical fiction
westerns | books for kids |  writing resources & book history

Bestseller Lists

• Amazon.com
• Barnes & Noble Bestsellers
• Borders.com
• The Boston Globe
• The Independent Bestseller List - from the American Booksellers Association
• The Los Angeles Times
• The New York Times - the list most people turn to and the list the Library relies upon
• Publishers' Weekly
• Powell's City of Books
• The San Francisco Chronicle
• USA Today
• The Wall Street Journal - the best-selling non-fiction (hosted by Borders.com)

Sites About Books

• Academy of American Poets
• Book Radio
• Center for the Book - Library of Congress book site
• CNN Book Reviews
• Oprah's Book Club
• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
• Washington Post Book World

Major Book Sites

• Amazon.com Books!
• BookBrowser
• Books.com
• Bookwire
• Internet Book Information Center
• Morton Grove Public Library : Web Sites for Book Lovers
• Overbooked

Book Awards

• ALA Notable Books
• Award List at BookSpot
• AwardWeb : Collections of Literary Award Information (Laurie Mann's)
• Book Awards (from Wit's End)
• Newbery and Caldecott Awards (ALA's)
• Pulitzer Prize Board

Book Lists (not library created)

• Bestsellers Lists from Publishers' Weekly
• BookBrowser, BookBrowser : Reading Lists
• Books Reference
• Fiction-L List of Lists
• Great Books Foundation, Junior Great Books
• Literature and Medicine Database (NYU database)
• Master Works of Western Civilization
• Oprah's Book Club
• Oprahlikes
• Personal list of best authors/books -- Richard Seltzer
• Reader's Robot - search by genre
• Rochester's Readers' Services Page
• Seattle Public Library - Pearl's Picks and Recommended Reading

Book Reviews

• Amazon.com
• The Atlantic Monthly
• Book Bytes (Marylaine Block's)
• Booklist
• Booknotes : A Cyber Companion
• Bookpage
• Bookspot
• Chapter One (Washington Post)
• Genreflecting - fiction reviews
• Internet Book Review Resource List
• Library Journal Reviews
• Locus
• Los Angeles Times Book Review
• The New York Review of Books
• NPR (National Public Radio)
• Romantic Times Online
• Salon
• Times Literary Supplement
• Under the Covers Book Reviews
• Washington Post Book World

Reader's Advisory

• BookBrowser
• Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
• Fiction L! - fiction discussion group
• Genreflecting - fiction guide site
• Internet Book Information Center
• Literary Locals - picture links to authors' significant places
• Literary Web : New Dimensions in Literature
• Milwaukee Public Library's Reader's Corner
• Readers' Advisory Services by the Morton Grove Public Library
• Readers' Service - State Library of Tasmania (readalikes) - search by author
• What's Next : A Searchable Database of Novels in Series
• World of Books Info Center
• Young Adult Librarians' Help Home Page

Reading Groups & Guides

• Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Amazon.com Reading Guides
• Beacon Press
• BookBrowser : Reading Lists
• The Book Group List
• Bookwire
• Great Books Foundation
• Harper Collins - under 'Readers' section, has groups & guides
• Henry Holt
• New York Times : The Round Table
• NPR - radio book club site
• Paz Associates (Discussable Books)
• Penguin - guide to reading groups
• Rachel's Compendium of Online Book Discussions
• Random House - Random House Cafe site - forums section
• Random House Ballantine - group guides to books
• Reading Group Choices
• SimonSays.com: Reading Guides
• Vintage Books Reading Group Center
• Webrary - record of Morton Grove Library book discussions
• Wired for Books - RealAudio Book Discussion (Ohio University)

Genres/Subjects

• Genreflecting - fiction guide site
• The Reader's Robot - search by genre
• Titles by Topic - BookBrowser

Romance

• All About Romance
• A Reader's Guide to Romance & Women's Fiction - currently a Valerie Taylor page
• The Romance Reader
• Romancing the Web - The Authors' and Readers' Meeting Place
• Voice of Romance

Science Fiction & Fantasy

• Beyond the Farthest Star
• Christian SF/Fantasy
• Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition
• Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
• The Linkoping Science Fiction & Fantasy Archive
• Locus Magazine, Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1997)
• Science Fiction in paperback and pulp magazines
• The SF Site - The Home Page for Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Star Wars Novels
• The Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Titles on the Internet
• TOR SF & Fantasy

Mystery

• Book Links : Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Crime Fiction
• ClueLass Home Page
• MysteryNet
• The Mystery Reader
• The Poisoned Pen Home Page

Horror

• DarkEcho's Horror Web

Christian Fiction

• Waukesha Public Library - Christian Fiction Authors

Historical Fiction

• Soon's Historical Fiction Site

Westerns

• BookBrowser : Western Fiction Series - search by author
• Western Writers of America - Roundup Online Magazine
• Yahoo! Books : Westerns

Books for Kids

• See Booklists For Kids on the Kid's Virtual Library
• Children's Literature Web Guide (U Calgary)

Writing Resources and the History of the Book

• WritersNet
• SHARP Web - Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing

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