Online Readers Advisory Sites

Starred sites for adult fiction readers' advisory

• Fantastic Fiction

Inclues pictures of covers, series lists, and pre-pub/forthcoming information as well.

• Fiction Connection

Brought to you by Bowker -- available only inside the library .Locate books by author, title, or attributes in six different areas for fiction: genre, setting, location, character, timeframe, and topic. Choose the "find similar" button and then narrow down by attribute.

Note: OCLC has a prototype of a very similar database at FictionFinder.oclc.org -- it is limited and less user-friendly at this point, but keep an eye on it, since it’s still in the making.

Other sites mentioned in my presentation

Children’s Sites

• Bookhive

Click on "Find a Book" in the middle of the front page. Run by the Charlotte/Mecklenburg Public Library; annotated by librarians.

• Mid-Continent Public Library's Readers Advisory Pages

Especially of note: the Juvenile Series and Sequels database

• BookAdventure

Run by Sylvan Learning Center, has limited listings and is grade-level dependent, but might jog your mind for some suggestions based on reading level and subject matter.

General Fiction Sites

• Fiction_L listserv

search the archives for good reading lists

• FictionDB

limited results without a subscription, but come here for pseudonym lists, basic searches in

Genre-specific sites

• Bibliotravel

• Mystery: www.stopyourekillingme.com

• Romance: www.likesbooks.com

readalikes under Reader’s Choice > If You Like

• Romance: www.theromancereader.com

reviews by romance category

• Henrico PL

has a nice list of other genre resources ( www.co.henrico.va.us/library/DBWeb/adbkgenres.html)

• Overbooked: www.overbooked.org

Click on their "Readers Advisory" tab for links galore. Also: book lists, new notable fiction, lists of starred reviews.

General Readers' Advisory Sites

• Reader's Advisor Online (Libraries Unlimited) www.readersadvisoronline.com

• What Do I Read Next? -- Gale database accessible through finditvirginia.org or jmrl.org's database page

• What's Next?:ww2.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnextnew.asp

adult and youth series

• Whichbook:www.whichbook.net

British, more fun than useful!

Libraries/Librarians Doing Neat Things with RA

• Williamsburg (VA) Reg'l Library

personalized RA services ( www.wrl.org/bookweb/RA/index.html)

• Seattle PL:David Wright(readersadvisory.org)

• Nancy Pearl and the ShelfTalk blog (shelftalk.spl.org)

• Neal Wyatt -- Chesterfield Ct PL, Library Journal column/articles

• Rocky River (OH) PL

Reading Room search (readingroom.rrpl.org)

• JMRL.org's Readers' Corner page hera.jmrl.org/pr-readers.htm)

• Librarything: www.librarything.com/suggester

very strong suggestion database

• NoveList: an EBSCO database available through participating libraries