Adult Good Reads
Love books? Find more good reads by following these links.
Novelist provides Book Reviews, Book Discussion Guides and lists of Author Read-alikes.
(This fiction database is available free to library members – you’ll need your library card number to login).
An Australian resource with information on “Everything About Books” including thousands of easy to read independent book reviews and lots of interesting Australian and International articles, author profiles, stories on writers’ houses, bookshops, short stories, book trivia and more.
(This online magazine is available free to library members – you’ll need your library card number to login).
Book review sections from newspapers:
- The Age Books Section
- The Australian Books Section
- The New York Times Books Section
- The Guardian (UK) Books Section
Other book sites
- Book reviews from the American Library Association
- Fantastic Fiction: for finding books in a series, by author.
- Stop, You’re killing me: a website to die for (if you love mysteries!)
- Library Thing: Social Networking for booklovers. Catalogue your own online library.
- Good Reads: Book recommendation sharing site
- Your Next Read Tell it a book and it will tell you what other people recommend you read next.
- ABC TV’s First Tuesday Bookclub
- Literature map: lets you, in a fun and visual way, find authors who write like your favourite author.
Book stores, for reviews and purchases:
- Booko: Finds the cheapest price for books and DVDs in Australia. Searches international and national online ordering sites and converts the cost into Australian dollars
- Amazon.com
- Angus and Roberston
- Dymocks
- Collins Booksellers
- Barnes and Noble
- Singing Tree Cottesloe: (Local Children’s Bookshop)
- Readings: A Melbourne bookstore, featuring lots of reviews.
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