Reading Resources on the World Wide Web
There are lots of free resources for booklovers on the Internet. These links don't require a library card.
Suggested For Adult Books
If You Like?. is the reader's advisory database created and maintained by Hennepin County (MN) Public Library.
ManyBooks.net provides free e-books, in print or audio format.
WhichBook.net, a project of the Chief Librarians of the United Kingdom, offers ways to search for new and classic books by setting a profile that describes what you like in a good book.
Bookwire's Book Awards brings together both major and less well known literary award sites, with lists of past winners in many different genres.
Reader's Robot, a project of Thompson Nicola Regional District Library System (Kamloops, British Columbia), this database can be searched by genre and offers reviews written by the library's users.
AllReaders.com offers a search engine that allows the user to suggest the most minute details in whatever combination for a good read.
Stop, You're Killing Me! Guidance for mystery lovers looking for a particular series, subgenres, character, types, and settings.
Suggested For Teen Books
Bookwire's Book Awards brings together both major and less well known literary award sites, with lists of past winners in many different genres.
Reader's Robot, a project of Thompson Nicola Regional District Library System (Kamloops, British Columbia), this database can be searched by genre and offers reviews written by the library's users.
Recommended Literature Kindergarten to Grade 12 was created and is updated by California's Department of Education.
California Young Reader Medal is awarded to authors for picture books, intermediate readers, middle school, and young adult books.