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Readers' Advisory

Adults

Bestseller Lists

  • Amazon Best Sellers: Our most popular books based on sales. Updated hourly.

  • B&N Top 100: Book Bestsellers

  • The New York Times Best Sellers: Authoritatively ranked lists of books sold in the United States, sorted by format and genre.

  • Publisher Weekly's Top 10 lists, sorted by format and genre.

  • USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list ranks the 150 top-selling titles each week based on an analysis of sales from U.S. booksellers.

  • The Washington Post's top 15 national bestsellers based on sales, sorted by fiction and nonfiction.

Book Reviews

Websites​

  • Search for books and movies by author or title, or get into extreme detail by searching on genre, plot, themes, characters, setting, and writing style.

  • Compiled by the Mid-Continent Public Library in Missouri, this is the most comprehensive list of movies and TV shows based on books, short stories, plays, and graphic novels.

  • Find reviews, an online directory of authors' websites, newsletters to subscribe to, and so much more.

  • A fun way to get Amazon and LibraryThing recommendations with an easy-to-use interface.

  • What to read from bestsellers to genre and behind the books.

  • Create a profile to tell this site what you like, and it creates recommendations based on your information.

  • Keep a list of the books you want to read and keep track of the books you've read. Plus get information on series, authors, and authors' recommendations.

  • Tell Gnod what you like and in return receive suggestions for new authors. It uses the information you provide to get better at connecting similar authors.

  • Add books to your profile and get recommendations. Also a thriving social discussion community.

  • Organize your home library or books you've read, share with the larger community, and get recommendations.

  • Part of the Global Network of Discovery (Gnod), Literature Map is based on Gnooks. The more people like an author and another author, the closer together they will be on the map.

  • Formerly known as TasteKid, create an account for personalized recommendations in music, movies, TV, books, authors, games, and podcasts.

  • Explore great book lists or create your own. Also use sliders to combine different factors to get book suggestions that closely match your needs.

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