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Book Club Suggestions for adults:
for young adults
News and Reviews
Amazon.com
- includes synopses, reviews, interviews, etc.
Booklist
Magazine - includes reviews
Bookloons
- features, reviews and excerpts in many genres
BookPage
- includes reviews
Bookreporter
- great interviews, book reviews, and trivia for readers. You
can even subscribe to their free newsletter!
Book
Spot - comprehensive list of book-related resources
on the web
Bookwire
- reviews and bestseller lists
Chapter
One - featuring full first chapters of books with reviews
and discussions, from the Washington Post
The New York
Review of Books
New
York Times Book Review
USA
Today Book Index
Awards
Bookspot
- indexed lists of Hugo, Nebula, Stoker and Aurora nominees
and award winners, with links to other literary award sites.
Bookawards
- information about children's and adult literary prizes
Reading Groups
Great Books
Foundation - a formal approach to "great books" discussion
Harper
Collins Reader Resources: Reader's Guides - reading guides
include author information, interviews and discussion questions
Mostly We
Eat - sophisticated home page allows you to peek at the
activities of a book group that has been meeting since 1993, including books
read and foods eaten
Oprah
Book Club
Overbooked
- lists suggested books for discussion
Random House Reading
Group Guides - highly recommended publisher site
Reading
Group Choices - interesting site with advice for starting
a group and for group leaders; reading guides are available for books listed in
their annual publication Reading Group Choices
Reading Lists
Banned
Books - the American Library Association's list of the 100
books challenged most often between 1990-2000
Bookbrowser
- lists series and sequels
List
of Lists - from Fiction-L, a Readers Advisory Listserv
What's
Next? - adult fiction in series
Genre Fiction
Genreflecting
- a guide to reading interests in genre
fiction
If
you Like...A Handy Guide to Authors and Genres
Overbooked
- Genre Fiction - links for
ravenous readers; specializing in literary and genre fiction information
Evanston
Public Library -
fiction authors by subjects
Mystery
ClueLass
- includes mystery awards
Mysterious
Homepage - search by author, character or theme
MysteryNet -
online guide to everything mystery
The
Mystery Reader - offers reviews of mystery novels
Poisoned
Pen - a mystery bookstore and more....
Romance
All About
Romance - reviews and news of romance novels
The Romance
Reader - features reviews, news, and articles about
romance novels
Romantic Times
- reviews and news about romance novels. Includes author
biographies, writers' resources, and more.
Science Fiction and Fantasy
FantasyFinder
LOCUS online
- newspaper of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror
publishing fields
Recommended
Fantasy Authors List
SF Site
- with sample chapters, commentary, reviews, interviews, and
more.
Horror
Horror.org
- resource for horror, suspense and dark fantasy fiction,
including indexes for magazines, publishers, bookstores, reviews, author email
addresses and author sites.
Rare Books
Advanced
Book Exchange
- rare, used and out-of-print books
Atticus
Used Books & Music
Miscellaneous
Poets'
Corner - all about poets and poetry
SparkNotes
- similar to Cliffs Notes
Schwartz Books
- visit your local bookseller online
Reading Suggestions for
Young Adults
King Philip Reading List
Tri County Summer
Reading List
Bishop Feehan Summer Learning Experience
MCAS Suggested
Reading list for high school
Young Adult
from the LA Public Library
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