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READERS' PAGE
Readers' Web Sites

BOOK NEWS & REVIEWS WEB SITES
When you want the latest on your favorite author or you're looking for a review to see if that new author you heard about is worth reading, browse through this list of links.  (Click here for links to information about bestsellers)

The library pays for access to a number of magazine databases that make it easy to find reviews for even the newest titles. (Make sure you have your 14-digit North Kingstown library card number ready when using these databases from outside of the library.)  For fiction and non-fiction reviews, try searching by author or title in Infotrac, Literature Resource Center, and Electric Library (if you're inside the library, please click here for Electric Library).

Allreaders.com - features detailed book reviews from all genres.

Amazon.com - Amazon.com, one of the largest booksellers on the web, has created an easily searchable interface that allows users to find book reviews quickly and easily

Book Reviews by Allreaders.com - A review search engine that allows you to search by plot, setting, theme or characters.

Booklist – the digital counterpart to the American Library Association’s Booklist magazine.   Contains reviews of books and electronic media.

Bookpage – the online version of BookPage, a monthly book review.

Bookreporter – contains features, reviews and book excerpts.

Boston Globe Online - Book Reviews - book reviews by staff members of the Boston Globe

MostlyFiction.com - Devoted to book reviews in various genres. Nicely organized and updated regularly.

New York Review of Books – the online version of the New York Review of Books

New York Times – Books (Daily News & Reviews) – (registration required) Read the Daily News & Reviews page, or search for a past review.

Page One Literary Newsletter – an online newsletter and website for readers and writers.

Readers’ Opinions – a website where members can get tips on good books to read, rate the books they have read, and keep a record of them in the site database.

Bestseller Sites
NY Times Fiction Hardcover (Bookletters) - Includes cover art for each title and links that bring you directly into the library catalog to search for availability or place a hold on the title.

NY Times Fiction Paperback (Bookletters) - Includes cover art for each title and links that bring you directly into the library catalog to search for availability or place a hold on the title.

NY Times Nonfiction Hardcover (Bookletters) - Includes cover art for each title and links that bring you directly into the library catalog to search for availability or place a hold on the title.

NY Times Nonfiction Paperbacks (Bookletters) - Includes cover art for each title and links that bring you directly into the library catalog to search for availability or place a hold on the title.

NY Times Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous Hardcover (Bookletters) - Includes cover art for each title and links that bring you directly into the library catalog to search for availability or place a hold on the title.

NY Times Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous Paperback (Bookletters) - Includes cover art for each title and links that bring you directly into the library catalog to search for availability or place a hold on the title.

Publishers Weekly Bestsellers – includes links to the following Publishers Weekly bestseller lists: hardcover fiction, hardcover nonfiction, children’s, religion, computer, mass market paperback, trade paperback, audio fiction, and audio nonfiction.

USA Today – This bestseller list is based on a computer analysis of retail book sales from approximately 3,000 large-inventory, diverse content bookstores nationwide.

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