A Brief History of Books - A BBC Education timeline from 50 000 B.C to current times. Includes audio which you can download.

Which Book - Allows you to set guidelines to select the kind of features you enjoy in novels you like to read - you can even put in plot, character and setting details it will come back with suggested reading that matches your criteria.

AllReaders - Browse through genres and subplots, choose authors within a genre or select reviews sent in by other users. Allows detailed searching to find books that match your preferred type of reading.

Readers Read - Ideas on what to read next as well as information about your favourite authors. There are booklists, book excerpts and discussion forums where you can even ask list hard-to-find and identify-this-book questions.

Bookbrowser - a powerful tool within the Barnes & Noble site, providing critics, readers and publisher reviews and suggested other readings. Books are within genre and subject catgories.

New York Review of Books - a highly respected and influential newspaper.

Fiction_L Booklists - Morton Grove Public Library's Booklsits - similar to our own! A great resource though US centric.

January Magazine - A highly respected electronic magazine devoted to books and authors with an international scope.

London Review of Books - is also a highly reputable source of reviews for recently released books on a range of subjects.

booksUnlimited - from the Guardian is worth browsing from time to time, particularly for UK writing news.

Overbooked - A resource for ravenous readers. Specializing in providing information about literary & genre fiction, readable nonfiction since 1994.