Do you need some help choosing a book to read? Browse through these suggestions of award winners, lists, best sellers and reviews to get ideas.

Award Winners

• Amazon List of Book Awards
• American Library Association: Notable Books
• BookSpot List of Book Awards
• National Book Awards
• National Book Critics Circle Awards
• Pulitzer Prize
• Romantic Times Readers Choice Awards

Book Lists

• The Booklist Center last updated 7/14/04 but many of the 346 lists's links still work
• Jefferson County Public Library Websites for Readers
• Multnomah County Library Booklists/If you Like...
• Multnomah County Library Book Resources includes bestsellers, review sources, awards, genre fiction websites, readers advisory, etc.
• Oprah's Book Club
• Who Reads What? Celebrity Reading Lists

Bestsellers/Best Books

• Amazon.com Top Sellers
• Barnes & Noble's What America's Reading. Hot Lists
• Library Spot: the best books of the millennium, century, decade, year and week
• Book Sense Best Sellers (independent bookstores online)
• Infoplease.com: notable books, bestsellers, top 100
• Modern Library's 100 best novels
• NY Times Best Sellers
• Powells Best Sellers
• Publishers Weekly Best Sellers
• USA Today's Top 150 best-selling books

Book Reviews

• All About Romance - "The romance readers home for romance novels, romance reviews, romance authors, and more. For and by romance readers - all with an interactive and back-fence atmosphere. Simply the best romance reviews, and honest, entertaining, and intriguing commentary."
• Best Reviews - Reviews romance, horror, fiction, non-fiction, mystery, paranorma, science fiction and young adult
• BookBrowser.com - "reviews are not meant to be critical essays on literature. We offer a doorway into the story and invite the reader to pass through. If our reviews give enough information to allow readers to make a decision about whether or no they want to cross that threshold, we consider them to be successful." Reviews in the following genres: Detective/Mystery, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Horror Fiction, Inspirational Fiction, Military Fiction, Non Fiction, Romance Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, and Westerns - part of Barnes & Noble
• BookMuse.com - Reader reviews of literature, mysteries, science fiction, biographies, other non-fiction, and prize winners - part of Powells.com
• BookPage.com - typically reviews up to 100 of each month's new fiction, nonfiction, business, children's, spoken word audio and how-to books. The tone is upbeat and literate, focusing on bestsellers as well as new discoveries.
• BookSpot.com - Featured sites are hand-selected by BookSpot.com editors and organized into intuitive categories, such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news and more.
• Compulsive Reader - Reviews of new release books by some of the hottest writers working today, exclusive author interviews, literary news and criticism.
• Danny Yee's Book Reviews Browse by: Subject (20 fiction genres, 90 nonfiction categories, 30 country pages) Title or Author (*/** = highly recommended) (alphabetical) or Best (*/** = highly recommended)
• Mystery Reader - "candid reviews of current mysteries"
• Librarian's Internet Index - Literature - Book Review Sites (231 listed as of 7/17/07) do a search on the main page for Book Reviews to bring up the list
• New York Review of Books - publishes essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film
• Romance Reader - "candid reviews of current romantic fiction"
• Romantic Science Fiction & Fantasy - "reader resource on sf, fantasy, and horror novels with strong romance genre appeal
• Salon.com Books Section - edited by Laura Miller, includes ahead-of-the-curve daily book reviews; essays on the ideas and controversies that have taken the literary world by storm, and interviews with today's most interesting writers.