Good Reads
Looking for book recommendations? News about the latest bestsellers? Want to peruse the latest headlines? Then you've come to the right place!
From the New York Times and Powell's City of Books
- The latest news about books from the New York Times as well as weekly book reviews.
- Check out daily book reviews from Powell's City of Books.
- Read up on what NPR has to say about the latest books and interesting authors
Finding Fiction
To find authors, books, series and more go to FantasticFiction. Bibliographies for over 25,000 authors; information on over 300,000 books.
Bestsellers and Award-Winners
Check out our "Titles of Note", covering best-selling lists from Book Sense.
E-Books
Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.
Social Networks for Readers
- Goodreads is the largest social network for readers in the world. We have more than 2,800,000 members who have added more than 77,000,000 books to their shelves. A place for casual readers and bona-fide bookworms alike, Goodreads members recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they've read and would like to read, form book clubs and much more. Goodreads was launched in December 2006.
- Welcome to Shelfari! Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books - all for free.
- LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
News Feeds Updated Hourly
- National news from National Public Radio.
- World headlines from the BBC Online.
