Resources for Librarians
Book Reviews and Book Stores

• AbeLibrary: The source for Savvy Librarians -- an out-of-print, independent booksellers site, with a literary newsletter, features, and links. A nicely presented site.
• About Books--links and lists courtesy of Readers' Services, Allen County Public Library, Indiana.
• AddAll.com--searches 33 online booksellers
• African-American Literature Book Club--with book profiles and reviews (including children's books)
• Alibris --hard-to-find and out-of-print books. A neat site.
• Amazon.Com--an amazingly complete online bookstore which gives prompt service.
• Baen Free Library -- Sci-fi titles full-text online.
• Barnes and Noble
• BiblioFind-- free out of print book search service.
• Black Issues -- African American book reviewers "devoted to covering both fiction and nonfiction books written by black authors."
• Book Arts Resources--illustration, bookbinding, typography and calligraphy
• BookBrowser--reading lists, by genre, author, series, sequels, or Oprah
• BookBytes --Marylaine Block's columns about books, plus her annotated bibliographies of books too good to put down. 
• Book Finder -- lists the top ten most requested out-of-print  books ordered in different subject areas. A what-not-to-weed tool!
• Book Lists and Bibliographies -- recommended reading from booklists of many different public libraries gathered together.
• the Book Reporter--book reviews, author interviews, and a gift guide by subject. 
• Book Reviews Galore--fiction, nonfiction (all topics), humor, you name it
• BookSense.com-- A gateway for over 200 independent booksellers.  The book search steers you to titles available at your nearest independent bookstore. Site also includes author interviews, and book recommendations and best sellers in a variety of categories.
• Books in Depth  -- reviews in selected journals and newspapers
• Books That Change Lives--great achievers of the 20th century tell you about the books that mattered to them.
• Book Web--from the American Booksellers Association
• Borders -- has now aligned with amazon.com.\
• Iowa Literary Landscape -- a bibliography of  both adult and children's fiction set in Iowa. Alphabetical by author.
• MetaFinder for Out of Print Books--simultaneously searches several out of print dealers' catalogs.
• MGPL Webrary -- lists of books organized by genre, setting, character, audience, author, topical themes, etc.
• Midwest Book Review-- Links to all kinds of book-related sites, including book review sources.
• On-Line Book Page--12,000 free, public domain full text books, most in HTML format.
• National Book Critics Circle -- list of useful book and criticism sites from newspaper, magazine and online publications. The Circle also awards for fiction, non-fiction, autobiography and criticism.
• National Center for the Book
• Newpages --independent booksellers, small independent magazines, independent record labels, university presses and much more.
• New York Review of Books
• New York Times Book Reviews--text of NYTBR, plus search all book reviews since 1980; free with registration.
• Read Across America--NEA's campaign to motivate children to read. 
• Readers' Robot--a personalized book recommendation system.
• Today in Literature -- book recommendations and a daily essay about a writer or a book from the Toronto Public Library.