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RECREATIONAL READING: Recommended and Award Winning Books
Boatwright's Recreational Collections
Recommended and Award Winning Books
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Social Book Websites
Good Reads
Social book site invites you to "meet your next favorite book."
Shelfari
Shelfari bills itself as "a community-powered encyclopedia for book lovers.' Its most distinctive feature is a very comprehensive list of book series.
Library Thing
Allows you to catalog your personal library and share information about books with others.
Fiction Connection
Find books according to topic, genre, location, time frame, setting or character
What Should I Read Next
Just type in a title or an author's name to get recommendations for similar books or authors.
Book Spot
Book reviews, book awards, online texts, reading lists, author and publisher information, book stores, book news, book events and more
Book Reporter
Book Report Network offers reviews, author profiles, and other features.
Podcasts about New Books
Blogging Booksellers
A series of brief video reviews on the Barnes and Noble web site.
Paperback Fiction Bestsellers
Audio reviews from NPR.
Authors On Tour - Live! Weekly Podcasts of Authors and Their Books
Sponsored by the Tattered Cover Book Store
Award Websites and "Best Books" Lists
National Book Awards
NY Times 100 Notable Books 2009
NY Times 100 Notable Books 2010
100 Notable Books of 2011
Modern Library 100 Best Novels
American Library Association 2012 Notable Books List
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011 Kirkus Reviews: Best Fiction of 2011
NPR: Best Books of 2011
Esquire: Best Books of 2011 Library Journal Best of 2011
Overbooked
This "resource for ravenous readers" offers annotated lists of books receiving at least one starred review from one of four major review sources: Booklist, Kirkus, LJ and PW. The review source assigns the star.
Brain Pickings 2011 Best-of Reading Lists
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2011 (via io9)
Introducing the 2010 Megalist: All the Best Books of the Year in One Spreadsheet
List created by Neil Hollands at Blogging for a Good Book at Williamsburg Regional Library.
All-TIME 100 Novels
The Telegraph 110 best books: The perfect library
BBC's "The Big Read - Books 1-100"
The Guardian's "100 Best Books of All Time"
National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)
Pulitzer Prize Winners for General Non-Fiction
Pulitzer Prize Winners for Novel/Fiction
Orange Prize for Fiction's "50 Essential Reads by Contemporary Authors"
Stop! You're Killing Me
A resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books.
SFSite: The Home Page for Science Fiction and Fantasy
HistoricalNovels.Info
Over 5000 Historical Novels Listed by Time and Place. Website is maintained by a writer in Portland, Oregon.
The Millions
An online magazine offering coverage on books, arts, and culture since 2003.
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