Middletown Thrall Library: Booklovers

Reader's Advisory

Book Clubs

Starting & Running a Book Club

The websites below offer tips on organizing and running book groups.

Book Group Buzz: Created by Booklist, this blog has entries on suggested book titles including read alikes, organizational tips, and reading guides.
Book Group Corner: from Random House
Book Club How to's: Information on starting a book club from the Seattle Public Library. Includes tips on choosing and reading books for discussion as well as suggestions for leaders.

Book Discussion Guides

The websites below provide discussion guides for individual titles. If you are looking for a good book to discuss in your reading group, you will enjoy browsing through these websites. Some have tips and ideas for organizing or reenergizing your group.

Book Clubs: From Amazon.com
Harper Collins Reading Groups
Harper Collins YA Reading Group Guides
Henry Holt Reading Group Guides
Morton Grove Public Library: Thinking Out Loud
Random House Book Discussion Guides
Reading Group Guides
Simon & Schuster: Reading Guides
Time Warner: Reading Group Guide

Local Information

Book Discussions at Middletown Thrall Library
Local Book Discussion Groups
Middletown Thrall Library Catalog

Awarded Books

ALA Book and Media Awards and Notable Mentions: From the American Library Association. Includes Best Books for Young Adults, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Outstanding Reference Sources. See also this link for information about the awards.
American Book Association: Book Industry Awards
Award Winners in the Library Catalog: Bestselling titles and awarded books available in the Ramapo Catskill Library System (RCLS).
Book Awards: Links to various book awards. Arranged by genre.
BookPrizeInfo
List of Literary Awards: International literary award information. From Wikipedia: please note their disclaimer.
National Book Awards: Current and past winning titles from the National Book Foundation.
Nobel Prize for Literature: Current and past winners
Pulitzer Prize: Current and past winners.

Bestseller Lists

Amazon's Bestsellers: Bestselling books at Amazon. By clicking on categories to the left, you can create lists for subsections like Large Print, Romance, and Mysteries and Thrillers.
Barnes and Noble: Top 100 titles selling this hour.
Bestsellers in the Library Catalog: Bestsellers and awarded book lists with direct links to items available in the library catalog for Middletown Thrall Library and the Ramapo Catskill Library System (RCLS).
Book Sense Bestsellers: Weekly list of bestsellers at independent bookstores. Also available are downloadable current and past bestseller lists.
Bookspot.com: Bestsellers: Directory of links to current bestseller lists including list by genre.
New York Times Best Sellers: Current bestsellers, including: hardcover fiction & nonfiction, children's books, paperback trade fiction & mass-market fiction, paperback fiction, hardcover and paperback business best sellers.
Publisher's Weekly Fiction Bestsellers: Lists the fiction bestsellers for the week and has links to the bestsellers in Audio, Children's, Nonfiction, Religion, and Paperbacks. It also links to the Fiction and Nonfiction Books Most Borrowed compiled by Library Journal.
USA Today Best-Selling Books Database: Top 150 titles based on sales.

Book Reviews

All About Romance: Subtitled "the back-fence for lovers of romance novels", this website contains reviews, lists of suggested titles, and information on romance authors and publishers.
Locus Online: News, reviews, resources and perspectives of the science fiction field.
The Mystery Reader: A collection of signed reviews of current mysteries with rankings from "outstanding' to "don't bother." New reviews are arranged by subgenres, older reviews are browsable by author. Reviews also given violence ratings - nonviolent, standard and graphic.
New York Review of Books: Electronic version of the newspaper. Contains in-depth reviews from well-known critics of both fiction and nonfiction. Although you are able to search through the complete archives back to 1963, only several hundred reviews are available for free.
New York Times Book Review: Archives of reviews back to 1996. Includes links to many first chapters.
The Romance Reader: Three thousand reviews of contemporary romance. New reviews are categorized by subgenre.
Times Literary Supplement: The electronic version of the well-known literary paper, has current reviews of fiction and nonfiction. Nonfiction is arranged by subject. Archives are available with a paid subscription.

Forthcoming Fiction & Nonfiction Lists

The following websites feature upcoming titles and authors. You can click here to check the catalog for titles that interest you and reserve them once they become available.

Amazon.com: New and Upcoming Releases
Barnes & Noble.com Books: Coming Soon Bestsellers
Books in Print: "Forthcoming Book Room" and "Future Bestsellers": Available only at Thrall library.
Forthcoming Bestsellers: Updated monthly. This document is in the PDF format, which requires the Adobe Reader to view it.
Future Title Watch: Thrall's own monthly highlights of forthcoming titles
Historical Novel Society
Locus Mag: Forthcoming Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books
Mostly Fiction: Forthcoming Fiction and Nonfiction Titles
New York Review of Books
Wikipedia: Upcoming Books

General Reader's Advisories

BookBrowse.com: Read reviews, first chapters, and author interviews here. Browse by genre, and find heaps of information for book clubs.
Book Spot: A good gateway site for book lovers, Book Spot indexes book links by genre and also provides many different bestseller and awards lists as well as book reviews and literary criticism. Links to online book discussion groups too.
Novelist: Accessible to current Middletown Thrall Library cardholders. A reader's advisory tool for all ages, Novelist helps readers select fiction titles based on a wide selection of criteria. Provides reviews, subject content, and reading levels.
Oprah: She needs no introduction. Her website includes a listing of her popular book club selections and information on past and future shows. Her regular guests often include authors of books.
Rediscovering Literature: This Thrall guide has a suggested reading list of classic literature, links to archives of online literature, and links to author information and literary criticism.
Websites for Booklovers: Book lists compiled by the Fiction-L listserv include books by genre, character and setting. Morton Grove Library's excellent directory includes their own FictionL's Booklists, which lists of books by genre, character, setting, and other categories.

Series and Sequels Advisories

Juvenile Series and Sequels: Series written for or enjoyed by children.
What's Next: By the Kent District Library in Michigan for series searches. What's Nexthelps you search adult fiction in series. A "series" is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits.
YA Books in Series and Sequels: Series written for or enjoyed by teens.

Publishing Industry

American Booksellers Association: The not for profit trade association representing independent booksellers.
Association of American University Presses: AAUP is a not for profit association of university presses. University presses often have access to the best ideas and research produced by the scholarly community.
The Children's Book Council: Non profit trade association of publishers and packagers of trade books for children and young adults.
Literary Market Place: Resource Directory for the domestic and international book publishing industry. You must register to use. Some features require a subscription fee.
Publisher's Weekly: The online version of the international news magazine of the publishing industry.

Major Publishers on the Web

Avalon
Avon Books
Baen
Ballantine
Bantam Dell
Bloomsbury
DAW
Ecco
Blackwell Publishers
Del Rey
Doubleday
Faber & Faber
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Harcourt
Harlequin
HarperCollins
Hatchette Book Group USA
Henry Holt and Company
Houghton Mifflin
Hyperion Books

Knopf
Library of America
Little, Brown and Company
Modern Library
Palgrave
Pantheon
Penguin Group
Random House
Scholastic
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
St. Martins
Tor
Viking
Vintage
W. W. Norton & Company
Warner Books
Wiley
William Morrow
Zondervan

Bookstores

Addall.com: This website for book shoppers allows you to check title availability and compare prices at all the major online booksellers.
Advanced Book Exchange: The "world's largest network of independent booksellers" features a database of 22 million listings of used and out-of-print books.
Alibris: Alibris allows you to shop from the inventories of thousands of used booksellers.
Amazon: Amazon features reviews from Booklist and Kirkus.
Barnes & Noble: The online version of Barnes & Noble has reviews from Library Journal and School Library Journal.
Bibliofind: Used and out of print book service with 20 million listings.
Bookfinder: Searches catalogs of used book dealers to give you access to 40 million books
Book Sense: BookSense.com is a family of independent booksellers websites. Locate independent book stores by zip code or city. Check out the Book Sense Picks, a monthly selection of eclectic new books chosen by independent booksellers. This is a great place to browse for new titles.

News

Book Reporter: News and other features about upcoming titles and their authors. Part of the Book Report Network, which also includes such sites as Author Yellow Pages, Teen Reads, and Reading Group Guides
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