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NoveList
Looking for a good book? Use NoveList to look for books by author, title, series, plot description or level of readership. Use the Read-Alikes feature to find other authors who write like your favourite author.
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Literary Reference Center
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A comprehensive list of authors and their various pen names and includes, author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms des plumes, maiden names... etc
Australian Crime Fiction Database
Australia has a wonderfully rich field of crime and mystery authors, but it can be difficult to track down the details of all their work in one place. Crime Down Under presents a huge list of Australian Crime Fiction right here. If you're trying to find a series to read, an author's full list of crime works or their latest releases you should find this database useful.
Based on the Book
A compilation of over 1200 book titles, short stories and plays that have been made into films.
Booklists for Young Australians
The Australian School Library Association provides hundreds of booklists to assist in the selection of books for children
Book Lust
A community for people who love books from Nancy Pearl.
Fantastic Fiction
Bibliographies for over 20,000 authors and information on over 270,000 books.
Guys read
Reading lists and a forum area.
If you like lists...
The If You Like database links readers to fiction books they might enjoy. The web site can be searched by author or theme.
Literature Mind-Map
Type in an author's name and see a floating list of authors related to them. The closer the name to the author in the centre, the more likely it is that a someone will read both of them.
Overbooked
A web site for ravenous readers. Overbooked specialises in literary and genre fiction information. Overbooked Originals include author web pages, annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which received starred reviews, themed booklists, featured titles lists and hot lists of hard cover US fiction releases.
The reader's robot
Reviews of books from a variety of genres.
Reader2Reader
This is the readers' page of the People's Network (UK), a site for readers to share opinions about books - what you loved, what you hated and what you got stuck on.
Science fiction and fantasy
A comprehensive and accurate Science Fiction and Fantasy series database.
State Library of Tasmania's Read and Relax
Suggestions for books, movies, music and more.
Webrary - Morton Grove Public Library
Book reviews, author interviews, award winners, bestseller lists and much more for librarians and other fiction lovers.
What's Next
Helps you search adult fiction in series. A "series" is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits.
Which book
Which book provides an easy way to find the kind of read you are looking for. You can select between extremes eg funny and sad, gentle and violent and a list of books is suggested.