Discover Great New Reads: Use your favorite author, setting or style as a springboard

AllReaders: Features plot summaries and detailed, searchable subject designations for Plot, Setting, Style, Main Characters and Main Adversaries.

Gnooks: Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors. A good way to start is to type in your favorite author and watch the site unfold.

Readers Advisory Link Farm: Browse by Genre, Publisher, Bookstores, and Online Review sources.

WhichBook: This site allows the reader to choose plot and theme features on a sliding scale. Make your choice "happier," "larger than life," with a "funny" bent and see what results you get!

Reviews & News: Find out what the critics are saying

Cleveland.com Books The place to track authors and literary events in the Northeast Ohio area. There's also a forum for book discussion and event posting, as well as alerts for newly-announced publications, reviews and local book signings.

New York Times Book Review Extensive, searchable archive contains 50,000 book reviews going back to 1980. Also find current reviews, first chapters, special lists and editors' choices, and a readers' forum. Free registration required.

Washingtonpost.com: Books & Reading - home of Chapter One, a large selection of first chapters! Plus, signed book reviews, a Washington-based best-seller list and author interviews featuring readers' questions. Free registration required.

NPR Books: listen to reviews and author interviews, and as well as see what your favorite National Public Radio personalities recommend.

Boston Book Review The witty BBR print product is for literate readers. BBR reviews are touted as high quality and learned critiques by writers and scholars. Subscribe to the bi-monthly e-mail Gazette. Part of the BookWire package.

New York Review of Books It's not mass-market, but it is a leading forum for thoughtful, in-depth, intellectual discourse of books and the larger issues that they raise. Published here are the major writers of the day, shaping our culture and our future with pointed opinion and well-crafted argument. Always interesting. A special treat is the complete contents of the first issue from 1963 with contributors such as Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Mary McCarthy, Gore Vidal, William Styron.

The Times Books Good reviews and a good source for British books. Choose the Books section (under Quick Clicks). See also the venerable, weekly Times Literary Supplement.

Salon Magazine Books / Reviews  Features reviews, interviews and excerpts, as well as their Staffs' favorites and annual "Best" lists.

Los Angeles Times Books Current issue reviews and the place to find out what they're reading in Southern California.

USA Today Book Shelf Features reviews and an interactive calendar of upcoming releases. Updates their top 150 best-sellers weekly, plus a separate list of top-selling business books.

Other Sources for Great Recommendations:

LibraryThing Join an online group with similar interests for literary and other discussion or check users' recommendations and see what else they have enjoyed.

Goodreads Catalog your own collection and see what books people with your kind of taste can recommend.

Reviews of Books Keepers of this site mine the Internet to find and group reviews you can access without registration or fee. Handy compilation.

BookSpot.com Part of the StartSpot.com group. Useful compilation of reading resources.

The Richmond Review The first literary e-magazine in the UK

Bookreporter.com A newer launching from a "virtual community of booklovers." Its intent is to review good reads for the "passionate reader." The Book Report Network also comprises Teenreads.com and Kidsreads.com.

BookRadio Audio interviews with authors. You'll need the RealAudio Player plug-in.

Beatrice WWW Author interviews: young authors, maximum cinema, women authors, politics, journalism, biography, queerness. Hipness.

Curled Up With a Good Book A bookseller's list and reviews of books fair to excellent. One way to take it in is to check the site map in the Archives.

Reader's Robot From a library in British Columbia. Readers' recommendations.

BookPage Digital version of the monthly general interest book review publication distributed at bookstores (and libraries). Signed reviews, author interviews, an Oprah Book Club section.

Oprah's Books Books from the Book Club, books seen on the show and in the magazine O.

Booklist online (from the American Library Association): This leading review medium for librarians offers concise information on a wide range of books. Find also, book lists, author interviews and feature articles. The Editors' Choice lists are top-notch.

Library Journal and Publishers Weekly - both Reed publications. In LJ news and features combine with hot picks, pre-publication alerts, bi-weekly best-seller list based on library buying, special evaluative reports, e.g., best reference books. Another resource is Authors on the Highway, an author tour calendar. PW is t he book publishing news magazine. Each week the new PW bestseller lists are in place, including children's and audiobooks.

Online Literary Criticism Guide from the Internet Public Library provides an introduction to finding criticism on the Web. Its own Online Literary Criticism is a superb resource, with over 2500 critical and biographical sites linked. Literary Resources on the Net is another gateway to scholarly sites. When you're in the mood for some academic inquiry, these are good places to start.