• Adult Reading Round Table of Illinois - The Adult Reading Round Table is made up of librarians and library staff who are interested in developing their Readers’ Advisory skills and promoting literature and reading for pleasure. Most members come from Chicago area libraries.
• Fresh Fiction - Check the website for reviews on recently released fiction or sign up for one of their newsletters. The Fresh Press newsletter publishes a daily recap of author appearances and book mentions on nationally broadcast television and radio programs, including Oprah, Today, Good Morning America, Tonight, NPR, and many more.
• Hennepin County Library's Bookspace - Website featuring book lists, readalikes, and more.
• Morton Grove Public Library's Webrary - A great directory of 'Web sites for Book Lovers' with links to review sources, book discussion guides, genre fiction sites, award sites, organizations, and more.
• Oprah's Book Club - The Oprah Winfrey show's book site. Lists all the books mentioned on the show or in her magazine.

Readalike Resources

• Kent District Library's 'What's Next' database - Allows you to search for adult fiction in series by title, author, or series title.
• Overbooked: a Resource for Readers - A huge directory of Readers' Advisory resources for the librarian and the reader. Created by Ann Theis, Chesterfield Co. Lib., VA
• Readalikes from the Anniston-Calhoun Public Library - A list of readalikes arranged by author and genre.
• Springfield (MA) City Library Readers' Advisory Service - Includes booklists, recommendations, and links to RA sites.
• Whichbook - Allows readers to select books by a variety of characteristics. One approach uses the appeal characteristics. Another approach allow the user to guide a pointer along a continuum, e.g., gentle-violent, expected-unpredictable, conventional-unusual, etc.

Booklists--award books and bestsellers

• Amazon Top Sellers - Great resource for what book people are buying. Amazon is also good for readalikes and reviews.
• Bestseller lists: 1990-1998 - Publishers Weekly's list of bestsellers for the 20th century.
• BookSense Bestseller list - Links to the current bestseller lists from BookSense--adult and children's, in HTML, .doc, or pdf formats. BookSense is the marketing tool created by the American Booksellers Association for independent bookstores.
• Man Booker Prize - Prize awarded to the best fiction writer from the Commonwealth or Ireland
• Nebula Awards - The Science Fiction Writer's of America award the best science fiction and fantasy.
• New York Times Bestsellers list - Lists the current bestsellers in all categories. From this page you can search the NYTBR for reviews since 1981.
• Nobel Prize in Literature - Features all Nobel Laureates in literature.
• Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers - Links to bestsellers and books most borrowed from libraries.
• RITA Award - Romance Writer's of America awards for best fiction.

Book group resources

• BookMuse from Powell's bookstore - BookMuse provides reviews, questions & topics for discussion, literary criticism, books for further reading and tips for discussion leaders on a wide range of genres: science fiction, classic, contemporary, children, and young adult. Requires sign-up.
• Reading Group Choices - Reading Group Choices provides tips for the new book group leader as well as hundreds of selections for book group discussions.
• Reading Group Guides: the online community for reading groups - ReadingGroupGuides.com provides comprehensive guides for hundreds of books including bestsellers, romance, spirituality, civil war, or literary fiction.

Sites from the publishing world

• Hachette Book Group - The Hachette Book Group includes Warner Books, Little, Brown and Co., Hachette audio, and Faithwork books.
• HarperCollins - 'HarperCollins Library services offers information on everything from booking authors at your library, reading group guides, authors on the road, library conferences, newsletter sign-ups, book giveaways and much, much more!'
• Henry Holt - Reading guides, author info, contests, and information on upcoming books.
• Holtzbrinck Publishers - Information about authors, book reviews and marketing information. Holtzbrinck publishes: St. Martin's, Henry Holt, Picdor, Tor, Thomas Dunne, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Audio Renaissance, St. Martin's Minotaur.
• Penguin Group - Reading guides for Penguin books. Interviews with authors and contests.
• Random House Library Services page - From this page there are links to book discussion guides, author marketing and event information, tips for booking an author, and other topics of interest.
• eHarlequin.com - Free email newsletter, author info, chapter reads, contests, and more.

Genre websites

• American Christian Fiction Writers - ACFW is an organization geared toward meeting the needs of new and seasoned authors alike, as well as offering a venue for readers of Christian Fiction to learn more about their favorite authors and discover the vast array of choices available from the Christian Fiction market in general.
• Dark Echo Horror - Interviews, booklists, reviews, blogs for the horror reader.
• No Flying, No Tights - Graphic Novel Reader's Advisory site for teens, with links to the Lair (for adults) and Sidekicks (for kids).
• SF Site - The Home Page for Science Fiction and Fantasy - Author lists, topical lists, reviews, interviews, articles, and booklists.
• Stop, You're Killing Me! - Stop, You’re Killing Me! is a resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books. Lists nearly 2100 authors, with complete chronological lists of their books (21,000+ titles), both series and non-series.
• The Audies- Audio Publishers Association - The Audies is the award for the excellence in audio book production. Use their award winning lists to help a patron with audio RA.
• The Romance Reader - The latest news and views on a variety of genre romance novels.
• Western Writers of America - Western Writers of America, Inc., was founded in 1953 to promote the literature of the American West and bestow Spur Awards for distinguished writing in the western field.
• World Fantasy Awards - The World Fantasy Convention names it's annual awards for best fantasy fiction.