Helping readers find the perfect book is just half the story. Gale Books and Authors offers countless ways to explore authors, titles, and genres based on expert reviews and recommendations.
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For more than 30 years, BookPage has been a trusted source for book reviews, recommendations and author interviews.
BookPage highlights intriguing new voices as well as anticipated bestsellers, pointing readers to the best new releases across all genres including historical fiction, literary fiction, popular fiction, mysteries & thrillers, nonfiction, biography & memoir, romance, cozies, audiobooks, lifestyles, children’s, young adult and more.
Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and home to a host of media, from podcasts to newsletters to original content, all designed around diverse readers and across all genres. They’ve been recommending buzzy and under-the-radar books, celebrating the reading life, reporting on headlines from the world of books and publishing, and bringing readers the progressive, feminist, inclusive bookish content they love since 2011.
Their backgrounds are as varied and expansive as their expertise. Some of them are or have been booksellers, teachers, librarians, and authors. All of them are into books.
Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Their mission is to help readers discover books they love and get more out of reading. Goodreads launched in January 2007.
– See what books your friends are reading.
– Track the books you’re reading, have read, and want to read.
– Check out your personalized book recommendations. Our recommendation engine analyzes 20 billion data points to give suggestions tailored to your literary tastes.
– Find out if a book is a good fit for you from our community’s reviews.
LibraryReads is the monthly nationwide library staff picks list for adult fiction and non-fiction. Our goal is to help connect readers to as many books as possible, while drawing upon the incredible power that public library staff has in helping to build word-of-mouth for new books, and the important role that libraries play in creating audiences for all kinds of authors.
Rather than picking “the best” of anything, LibraryReads represents collective favorites—the books library staff loved reading and cannot wait to share.
LibraryReads is designed to be inclusive and diverse, representing a broad range of reading tastes and showcasing a variety of new titles, including buzzed-about debuts, genre favorites, bestselling authors, and lesser-known midlist titles that public library staff are raving about.
LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
LibraryThing means different things to different people. Some use it to record what they’re reading now; some catalog every book they own. Some talk on our groups all day long, others never interact with anyone. Some share everything to Facebook, others keep their library private. Some use it for book discovery and recommendations, some to help out other book lovers with their knowledge of authors, books and series.
NPR’s brings you news about books and authors along with their picks for great reads. Interviews, reviews, and much more.
A guide with over 3,600 book recommendations from NPR staff and critics. The guide includes a variety of categories, such as summer picks, fiction, nonfiction, and kids’ lit
NPR Books also has a taxonomy for books, with categories such as Biography & Memoir, Kids’ Books, It’s All Geek To Me, and Let’s Talk About Sex.