Choosing Your Book
Printer-friendly versionDo you need some help choosing a book to read? Browse through these suggestions of award winners, lists, best sellers and reviews to get ideas.
Award Winners
- Amazon List of Book Awards
- American Library Association: Notable Books
- BookSpot List of Book Awards
- National Book Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Awards
- Pulitzer Prize
- Romantic Times Readers Choice Awards
Book Lists
- Jefferson County Public Library Websites for Readers
- Multnomah County Library Book Resources includes bestsellers, review sources, awards, genre fiction websites, readers advisory, etc.
- Oprah's Book Club
Bestsellers/Best Books
- Amazon.com Top Sellers
- Barnes & Noble's Bestsellers
- Library Spot: the best books of the millennium, century, decade, year and week
- Book Sense Best Sellers (independent bookstores online)
- Infoplease.com: notable books, bestsellers, top 100
- Modern Library's 100 best novels
- NY Times Best Sellers
- Powells Best Sellers
- Publishers Weekly Best Sellers
- USA Today's Top 150 best-selling books
Book Reviews
- All About Romance - "The romance readers home for romance novels, romance reviews, romance authors, and more. For and by romance readers - all with an interactive and back-fence atmosphere. Simply the best romance reviews, and honest, entertaining, and intriguing commentary."
- Best Reviews - Reviews romance, horror, fiction, non-fiction, mystery, paranorma, science fiction and young adult
- BookBrowser.com - part of Barnes & Noble - accommodates many voices, publishing exclusive material from a wide range of established critics, reviewers, and columnists.
- BookPage.com - "Our goal is to recommend the best books for readers of all types, whether you're interested in literary fiction or romance, history or science fiction, cookbooks or children's books. We focus on new releases and tailor our reviews for the general reader the true booklover always on the lookout for the next great read."
- BookSpot.com - Featured sites are hand-selected by BookSpot.com editors and organized into intuitive categories, such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news and more.
- Compulsive Reader - Reviews of new release books by some of the hottest writers working today, exclusive author interviews, literary news and criticism.
- Danny Yee's Book Reviews Browse by: Subject (20 fiction genres, 90 nonfiction categories, 30 country pages) Title or Author (*/** = highly recommended) (alphabetical) or Best (*/** = highly recommended)
- Mystery Reader - "candid reviews of current mysteries"
- Internet Public Library 2 (ipl2) - Literature - Criticism
- New York Review of Books - publishes essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film
- Romance Reader - "candid reviews of current romantic fiction"
- Romantic Science Fiction & Fantasy - "reader resource on sf, fantasy, and horror novels with strong romance genre appeal
- Salon.com Books Section - reviews and blog
