Fishing for Fiction: Hooking Your Next Good Book

~2008 NYSLAA conference report~

Fishing for Fiction: Hooking Your Next Good Book
Presented by: Alan NaPier, Librarian Assistant at Liverpool Public Library

Workshop attended and reported by:
Peg Pelletier, Newark Public Library

The third session was Fishing for Fiction: Websites for Good Books. There is a whole slew of websites, and many of them were new to me. I have listed them below so you can browse for yourself:

Mystery fiction:

http://www.cluelass.com/

http://www.themysteryreader.com/ (Contains reader reviews – not peer, but good)

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/ (Can look up character series, also list of sleuths jobs, and genre mysteries)

Romance fiction:

http://likesbooks.com/

http://romancereader.com/

http://romantictimes.com/

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered fiction:

http://www.ala.org/ala/glbtrt/stonewall/stonewallbook.cfm

http://www.tcpl.org/reading/gaylesbianII.html

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/index.html

http://publishingtriangle.org/

Series fiction:

http://ww2.kdl.org/libcat/WhatsNextNEW.asp

Fiction with a Medical Theme:

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new (Developed by the NYU School of medicine to “make their doctors more human”)

General, Literary and Miscellaneous fiction:

http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/protools/readinglist/reading.cfm

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm (Young Adult)

http://allreaders.com/

http://bookbitch.com/

http://bookpage.com/ (We get the printed version of this every month)

http://booksense.com/bspicks/index.jsp

http://bookspot.com/

http://ra.hhpl.on.ca/hhpl/index.php

http://www.webrary.org/RS/FLmenu.html

http://nancypearl.com/

http://overbooked.org/

Social Networks for readers:

http://www.librarything.com/

Sites for Book Discussion Groups and Leaders:

http://book-clubs-resource.com/

http://bookmovement.com/

http://bookspot.com/ask/bookforum.htm

http://readinggroupchoices.com/