Collection Development and Reader’s Advisory Resources
AALL-SIS list of Collection Development Resources—tons of sites to help new and experienced collection development librarians.
Adult Reading Round Table Genre Boot camp—learn just about everything you ever wanted to know about all kinds of literary genres.
Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records Collection Development Training—offers practical, self paced tutorials
Award Annals—lists of just about every literary award winner.
Book Remarks—a site that promotes books about or written by African Americans.
Christchurch City Libraries (New Zealand) has reading suggestions broken down by many subcategories including large print.
Early Word -- a blog and website that gives libraries the earliest information possible on the books their customers will be looking for, so they can stay ahead of demand. Early Word also has links for publisher catalogs, publisher contacts, bestseller lists, consumer reviews and lists of books to movies.
Fantastic Fiction -- a great resource for all types of fiction
Genreflecting -- based on the popular print series, Genreflecting, The Reader's Advisor Online is a great blog and resource for upcoming books, stories about books and display ideas.
Great Book Lists—Lists of critically acclaimed books.
http://www.librarybooklists.org/—although it hasn’t been updated in a while, it is a good resource when all the new books have left the building.
Morton Grove Public Library’s Websites for Book Lovers
Morton Grove Public Library’s Based on the Book
Oprah’s Book Club
RawSistaz Literary Group—great site for books primarily by African American writers.
Readalike.org Resources—many links to all kinds of genres.
Reader's Advisory Link Farm gives links to genres and also reading guides, read alikes and series.
The Reader’s Advisor Online Blog—news, tips and a community for exploring all aspects of reader advisory
Whichbook—this British site lets you choose different degrees of characteristics and suggests books based on your choices.
LibraryThing and Goodreads -- Find new books to read, see how other people rate books and read customer reviews.
BookTV -- Top non-fiction books and authors.
NPR Books -- All about fiction and non-fiction books from National Public Radio.
Publishers Weekly -- Book reviews and news from the publishing world.
Booklist Online Blogs -- News and reviews from all genres and for all ages.
New York Times -- The NYT list of best sellers.
Information updated 1/9/2012