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The Constant Reader Newsletter
A bimonthly newsletter produced by BPL staff for the avid reader. Contains upcoming titles, book group news, and reading suggestions.

Booklists
Find books by subjects including Quilting and Knitting Fiction, Cozy Mysteries, Steampunk, The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo Read-a-likes, and more

What We're Reading
Check out what the Library staff is reading!

NextReads
NextReads is an email book newsletter service offered by the Library. You can subscribe to 25 different subject and genre lists, and a newsletter will be delivered to your email inbox on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. Subscribe today!

BookBrowse
Reading suggestions, excerpts, guides, and much more!

NoveList Plus
NoveList allows you to use a favorite author or title as a springboard to locate other authors and titles of interest. On NoveList you can also look up and view book series information, read the first chapter of many books, and read reviews.

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Links for Book Lovers

Goodreads
A social networking site for book lovers that allows you to create lists of books to read, rate books you have read, and see what your friends are reading.

Bookwire Calendar of Events
Keep aware of book events in the area.

New York Times Bestseller List
Top selling fiction and nonfiction, hardcovers and paperbacks.

Bestseller Lists 1900-1995

Fiction_L Booklists
Fiction_L is an internet listserv for librarians to talk about serving fiction readers. Many of these discussions result in compilations of books on a particular theme, genre, writing style, etc. This site has many interesting booklists to inspire you!

Oprah's Book Club
Get information about Oprah's current book club selection and past titles.

Morton Grove Public Library's Webrary - Reader's Services
One of the premiere readers' advisory sites in the area has a large collection of links to information about books and reading

What's Next
This site provides the correct order of series titles

A Closer Look: Your Source for the Reviews of the Best in Christian Books and More
National review of Christian genre books, music, and video

Romantic Times
Reviews and author information for romance readers

The Romance Reader
More romance reviews by genre for the romance fan

Stop, You're Killing Me! A Site to Die For --- If you Love Mystery Books
This site is a resource for the lovers of mystery, intrigue and suspense books. Stop! has hundreds of authors, with complete, chronological lists of their books in this genre

The Mystery Reader
Reviews of mysteries by genre, as well as features for the mystery lover

Gnooks
Type your favorite author into the Map of Literature and get a "cloud" of similar authors to try

Overbooked
A web site for ravenous readers. Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about literary & genre fiction as well as readable nonfiction. Overbooked originals include annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which received starred reviews, themed booklists, featured titles lists and hot lists of hard cover US fiction releases.

FictionDB.com
Along with extensive author bibliographies, FictionDB offers a wide variety of other information. When you visit FictionDB.com, you can: find author pseudonyms, read the latest reviews from a variety of websites, browse series of books by publisher and by individual author, and learn about upcoming releases

Reading Group Choices
Hundreds of discussible book suggestions, all with discussion topics for lively reading group and book club discussions

Reading GroupGuides
Book discussions guides for hundreds of titles, and advice and ideas for your book group.