Bookmarks for Infopeople's Readers' Advisory on the Web

ALA | Book/Media Awards - http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=Book_Media_Awards&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=18&ContentID=18325: Many of the literary awards linked here target books for youth, but the range and diversity of reading needs and tastes addressed is expansive.
AllReaders.com Home Page - http://www.allreaders.com/: The diverse elements of a book that may provide its appeal to an individual reader are deconstructed thoroughly here.
Audio Publishers Association - http://www.audiopub.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3366: Audiobooks are a significant area of both publishing and reading these days. Search here for awards information, technology updates, and other relevant advisory tools.
Barnes & Noble BookBrowser - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookbrowser/Welcome.asp?: A typical tool familiar to readers who rely on commercial Web sites for reader's advice, this one offers "exclusive" author essays as well as lists of other titles purchased by consumers interested in specific works.
BCALA announces 2003 literary awards winners - http://www.ala.org/Content/ContentGroups/Press_Releases2/Press_Releases_2003/BCALA_announces_2003_literary_awards_winners.htm: The American Library Association's Black Caucus awards recognition to publications in many genres and for many audiences, including academic and popular.
The Book Group List - http://www.bookgrouplist.com/: In addition to reader comments, this page offers discussion questions that are useful to reader's advisors in need of genre-specific vocabulary or insights onto what makes a bestseller appealing.
Book Lists and Bibliographies - http://www.waterborolibrary.org/bklista.htm: This public library portal to mostly annotated booklists for adults, for children, and for teens, offers such diverse thematic possibilities as "Manly Books" and "Christian Fiction." Links are sometimes out of date.
BookBrowse.com - http://www.bookbrowse.com/: Excerpts, reviews, and thematic lists are all easy to search on this consumer site.
Constant Reader - http://www.constantreader.com/: Find valuable information for helping readers who are interested in poetry, short stories, and classics, as well as in contemporary novels.
Cover to Cover 2003-Teen Services Berkeley Public Library - http://www.infopeople.org/bpl/teen/cover.html: Local readers make good advisors. Berkeley Public Library's Cover to Cover program generates lots of book advice that teen peers can appreciate.
Fremont Public (IL) Library's Animated Booktalks - http://www.fremontlibrary.org/ys/ysteenzonebooktalks.asp: Here's a sample of a flashy but easy way to call potential readers' attention to specific books in your collection.
If You Like... - http://www.hennepin.lib.mn.us/pub/reader2reader/iyl.html: Fiction suggestions from librarians experienced in reader's advisory work at the Hennepin County (MN) Library are offered in list form, without annotations.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). - http://www.imdb.com/: Check out the "new releases" section to find out which recent and upcoming movies are likely to stir reader interest in books on which these films are based.
January Magazine - http://www.JanuaryMagazine.com/: This free online magazine provides reviews of books and interviews with authors, disregarding many of the genre-specific boundaries other online magazines employ.
Looking at Books - http://www.lib.uconn.edu/cla/reviews/lookbook.html: Book reviews writen by members of the Connecticut Library Association are searchable by author and title. Many of the titles here are nonfiction and reflect the reading interests of those with library or high tech careers and/or sensibilities.
MGPL Webrary® - Web Sites for Book Lovers - http://www.webrary.org/rs/rslinks.html#9: Morton Grove (IL) offers many links to libraries, electronic journals, and other reading-related Websites.
Reader's Club: - http://www.readersclub.org/default.asp: The Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (NC) promotes this as "Your guide to the best in reading and books."
The Reader's Robot -- A Reader's Advisory Service - http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/rr.html: The Thompson-Nicola Library (Kamloops, BC) offers readers an original database browseable by "appeal," as well as by author, title, or key word. Note the subgenres in each category as well as the "Match My Reading Tastes" access.
Recommended Literature: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve - http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/: Thousands of titles are annotated and sortable by subject, award, currcicular connections, and other attributes.
SAWNET: Books by and about South Asian Women - http://www.sawnet.org/books/: This personally maintained site, hosted by Concordia University, is a rich resource for those seeking books by and information about women writers of the Indian subcontinent.
WhichBook.net - http://www.whichbook.net/index.jsp: The Chief Librarians of the United Kingdom have created a method for delineating possible appeal elements that also addresses the issue of balance and primacy among such details.
Who Reads What? - http://www.gpl.lib.me.us/wrw.htm: The Gardiner (ME) Public Library offers annual lists of which famous people are reading what--and what those readers find compelling in the titles they've selected.
Womansday.com Forums - http://www.womansday.com/idealbb/forum.asp?forumID=21&sessionID={BA8174A7-6D3C-45E3-A6B6-C1D512C75EA1}: Readers post to this casual online readers forum with all sorts of remarks about books--but also suggestions about where and how to get reading advice.
World Literature Today - http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/: Keeping abreast of literature that may appeal to your most sophisticated reading advice seekers will be easier if you take the time to look at online versions of journals like this one.