Resources for Finding the Right Book

Resource NameURLNotes
AllReadershttp://www.allreaders.com/reviews/summaries in genres by author, title
Bookfinderhttp://www.bookfinder.com/Search engine for books
LibraryThinghttp://www.librarything.comCollective catalog of users' libraries, search by user contributed tags for readalikes
Overbookedhttp://www.overbooked.org/Great place to look at booklists with lots of recommendations!
Story Codehttp://www.storycode.com/Users contribute tags, used to make recommendations for readalikes (Registration required, but free)

 

Readers Advisory Listserves

Listserve NameURLNotes
DorothyLhttp://www.dorothyl.com/Mystery genre focus
Fiction_Lhttp://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.htmlGeneral RA discussion
RRA-Lhttp://www.toad.net/~dolma/Romance Readers Anonymous; Romance genre focus
SF-Lit

 

About Doing Readers Advisory

"Reader’s Advisory on the Web: Resources, Case Studies, and Community Involvement," Stephen Cohen. http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/ReadersAdvisoryOnline (accessed 7-12-06)

 

"Readers' Advisory," from Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#Readers.27_Advisory (accessed 7-26-06).

 

"Readers Advisory," from Genreflecting online. http://www.genreflecting.com/Readers%20Advisory.html (accessed 7-26-06).

 

"Genre Studies," from Adult Reading Round Table (ARRT).

http://www.arrtreads.org/genrestudy.htm (accessed 02-14-07)


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