Montana Book Club Central

Please be aware that the Montana Book Club Central Wiki is on its way out.  New content on this site with be limited.  Montana libraries continue to share books, book kits, and reader's advisory information.  Please contact the Montana Library Association to learn more.

 

Where do you learn about books?  Here's a short list of reader's advisory resources.  Do you have a favorite to add?

 

• Goodreads

• Library Journal

• Blogs (many people noted this generally–but don’t worry, many specific ones are listed here)

• New York Times/NYT Book Review/Magazine

• NPR

• Word Of Mouth/Friends/Colleagues

• Booklist

• Publishers’ Weekly

• Twitter (looking for RA on Twitter? Try #readadv)

• Kirkus

• School Library Journal

• Amazon

• Entertainment Weekly

• EarlyWord

• NoveList

• People Magazine

• Bookpage

• voyamagazine.com

• Browsing bookstores (both indie & chain)

• Edelweiss

• LibraryReads

• Patron holds and recommendations

• Brain Pickings

• Facebook (from friended authors, RA pages, and colleagues)

• Library Catalog

• LibraryThing

• Massachusetts Library System Readers’s Advisory Round Table

• The New Yorker

• Public TV

• ABA Indie Booklists

• ARCs (wondering how to get ARCs? Check out this webinar)

• Awards Lists (specifically mentioned: The Edgar Awards, The Hugo Awards, The Nebula Awards)

• BiblioCommons

• Book Riot

• Bookstore email and print newsletters (specifically mentioned: RJ Julia Booksellers, WORD)

• BookTV/CSPAN

• Buzzfeed

• Committees

• Elle Magazine

• Email signature lines

• esequels.com

• Esquire

• fantasticfiction.co.uk

• Fresh Fiction

• Guardian Book News

• Horn Book

• Huffington Post

• Indie Next

• IndieWire

• jackflannel.org/ra.html

• New York Review of Books

• Magazine

• Publisher Previews

• Reading Rants

• Salon

• Shelf Awareness

• The Nation

• Tumblr

• Vendor carts

• Webinars

• Wired Magazine

• Wowbrary

• WTIC Radio

• Yalit.com

• YALSA        

• Column1

• Slate

• BookRiot

• Books on the Nightstand   

• Stacked

• Bookshelves of Doom

• The Toast