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Readers Advisory Current Awareness Tools and Resources - Books

Page Modified: November 28, 2009

Selected Resources (oriented to adult fiction & nonfiction)

Bestseller Lists:

• Amazon Movers & Shakers
• Barnes & Noble
• Booksense Bestsellers
• Christian Booksellers
• Essence
• L.A. Times
• NY Times
• Publishers Weekly
• S.F. Chronicle
• USA Today

Additional Resources :

• Arts & Letters Daily
• Arts Journal
• Bookbrowser Reading Lists
• Booksense Picks
• NPR Books
• Yahoo Book /PublishingNews

RA Discussion Lists

• FictionL
• RA Talk - Canada
• Tampa Bay RA

Reading Groups

• BookBrowse Reading Guides
• Book Group List
• Reading Group Choices
• Reading Group Guides
• Overbooked Best Bets for Book Groups

Also, check publisher sites for book group discussion guides

Publishers

• Bloomsbury
• HarperCollins
• Hatchett
• Holtzbrinck
• Penguin
• Publishers Group West
• Random House
• Simon & Schuster
• Small Press Distribution
• Soho Press
• Soft Skull

Blogs (a sampling)

• Bloglines - Create a personal Bloglines page loaded with the freshest news about the things you love.
• Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind - Crime Fiction and more
• Emdashes - The New Yorker, between the lines
• Evil Editor
• Fimoculous - Rex Sorgatz' website, feeding on internet culture, includes Best of 2005 lists
• Fresh Eyes
• Holt Uncensored - is a semi-monthly email column and website about books and the book industry written by Pat Holt, former Book Review Editor and Critic for The San Francisco Chronicle.
• Literary Saloon
• Maud Newton
• MobyLives - news and commentary about books & writers
• Miss Snark - In which Miss Snark vents her wrath on the hapless world of writers and crushes them to sand beneath her T. Rexual heels of stiletto snark.
• Publishing Insider - Carl Lennartz
• Words Without Borders
• The Written Nerd

Overbooked Links

• Adult Books for Young Adults
• African American Fiction
• Christian Fiction
• Crime Fiction
• Graphic Novels, Nonfiction, Manga and Comics
• Nonfiction

Newsletters, RSS Feeds, etc.

 

Publishing World & Book Industry

• Bookselling This Week
• PW Daily
• Shelf Awareness
• Publishers Lunch

Review Sources

• Booklist Online
• Library Journal
• Kirkus

Vendors

• Baker & Taylor: Fast Facts, Booking Ahead
• Ingram: RA quarterly publication, Hot 100 Lists - email from IPage and forward to staff/customers, book discussion newsletter
• BWI: E News

Other

• NPR - Book Notes

 

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