Web Resources for Reader's Advisory

AllReaders.com
www.allreaders.com
"Choose from hundreds of plot, theme, character and setting options to find precisely what you're looking for!"

Book Reporter
www.bookreporter.com
Reviews, features and reader recommendations.

Book Sense
www.booksense.com
Essays, recommended reading and booklists from a group of independent booksellers.

Fiction_L Electronic Discussion List
www.webrary.org/RS/FLmenu.html
"Fiction_L is and electronic mailing list devoted to reader's advisory topics such as book discussions, booktalks, collection development issues, booklists and bibliographies and a wide variety of other topics of interest to librarians, book discussion leaders and others with an interest in reader's advisory."

Genre Flecting
www.genreflecting.org
Home base for the popular book series that is a "way of classifying books according to genre or type that align with reader preferences."

New York Times Best Seller List
www.nytimes.com/books/yr/mo/day/bsp/index.html
Compilation based on weekly sales surveys of major booksellers. Titles are linked to Times reviews and users can link to the print version of the New York Times Book Review and sign up for a free subsciption to access the list.

Over Booked
www.overbooked.org
Bills itself as a website for ravenous readers that specializes in literary and genre fiction.

Reader Robot Search Engine
www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/cgi-bin/rr-rearch-appeal.pl
Search database of over 5,000 books using "appeal factors."

Yahoo.com's Genre Lists
dir.yahoo.com/Arts/humanities/literature/genres
Links to hundreds of sites devoted to various genre of literature.