River Forest Public Library

Book Links                   

To all ravenous readers, book lovers, book club members, library lovers, and those just looking for a good book...
 
Find booklists, recommended reads, book reviews and ratings, author information and interviews, as well as use interactive tools to connect with other readers, catalog your personal collections, and give your own opinions on what you've read!

www.bookreporter.com Find a wealth of book related information including reviews, author interviews, book discussion guides, excerpts from new releases, literary games, recent books to movies and much more.

http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/ Find reviews, author interviews, literary news and criticism, and selected music and theater reviews.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/ Fantastic Fiction provides information on over 200,000 books and bibliographies for over 10,000 authors.  Find booklists, browse by several options including coming soon, most popular, top authors and series, and find information on the newest hardback, paperback, and audio book releases. 

http://www.genre-x.com/ This book group blog by 3 staff members of the Oak Park Public Library posts information about books, pop culture, cool online stuff and more for the twenties and thirties age group.

www.goodreads.com Looking for a way to keep track of what you've read and also see what your friends are reading at the same time?  Sign up for goodreads and you can save, rate and review the books you've read as well as get recommendations from your friends and see what other people think about the books you've read!

http://www.iblist.com/ Search or browse for books by title, author, or series.  Also find summaries, reviews, and ratings all created by users.

http://librarybooklists.org/ Use this page to find a wide variety of booklists for fiction, non-fiction, YA and children's materials. Also included is a calendar of author birthdays and reading group resources.

www.librarything.com Looking for a way to catalog your personal collection?  Catalog and tag your books as well as connect with other readers on this website.

http://www.oprah.com/books/books_landing.jhtml Oprah's Books.  Find out what her book club is reading, find out about books mentioned on her show and in her magazine, explore her personal collection and peruse the Kids Reading List.

www.overbooked.org    Find a wide variety of booklists and author information for all genres of fiction and readable non-fiction.

Have a favorite book-related website that you don't see on our page?
Send an email to [reference@riverforestlibrary.org] with your suggestion!
 

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                                    Last revised 3/03/08