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15 Websites Every Book Lover Should Know
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items Finding your next great book shouldn't feel like work. These 15 websites can help you discover books, get personalized recommendations, track your reading, explore reviews, and even read some books for free. Bookmark this list, try a few, and follow ...
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Find Your Next “I Can’t Put This Down” Book
Read Great Books Without Spending a Fortune
Track Your Books & Find Readers Like You
Find Your Next “I Can’t Put This Down” Book
Don't know what to read next? Start here. These websites make book discovery easier, whether you want recommendations based on your taste, mood, favorite authors, or books you already love.
You can search almost any book on Goodreads and quickly fall down a rabbit hole of reviews, ratings, lists, similar titles, and reader recommendations.
You can also build a Want to Read shelf and track everything you've finished.
What I especially like for discovery is that you can start with one book you already love and keep exploring from there.
Goodreads says its recommendation system uses your reading tastes to suggest books you may enjoy.
Visit it with your favorite book in mind and see where it takes you.
If you discover something good, come back and tell me what you found!
You can also build a Want to Read shelf and track everything you've finished.
What I especially like for discovery is that you can start with one book you already love and keep exploring from there.
Goodreads says its recommendation system uses your reading tastes to suggest books you may enjoy.
Visit it with your favorite book in mind and see where it takes you.
If you discover something good, come back and tell me what you found!
Goodreads — See What Millions of Readers Are Actually Reading
Sometimes genre isn't enough. Maybe you want something emotional but hopeful, slow and thoughtful, dark and tense, or light enough to finish in a weekend.
The StoryGraph is especially useful for readers who want recommendations based on their reading preferences rather than only bestseller charts.
You can also track books and build your reading history.
Try adding some books you've already loved and let it learn your taste.
You might find something you never would have searched for yourself.
The StoryGraph is especially useful for readers who want recommendations based on their reading preferences rather than only bestseller charts.
You can also track books and build your reading history.
Try adding some books you've already loved and let it learn your taste.
You might find something you never would have searched for yourself.
The StoryGraph — Find Books Based on Your Actual Reading Mood
This is one of the more interesting discovery sites here.
Instead of starting with an author or genre, Whichbook lets you explore books using things like mood and emotion, character and plot, or even where a story takes place.
Its mood options include choices such as feel-good, emotional, cosy, thought-provoking, and dark and gritty.
Don't search for a title.
Pick the mood you're craving tonight and let Whichbook surprise you.
Instead of starting with an author or genre, Whichbook lets you explore books using things like mood and emotion, character and plot, or even where a story takes place.
Its mood options include choices such as feel-good, emotional, cosy, thought-provoking, and dark and gritty.
Don't search for a title.
Pick the mood you're craving tonight and let Whichbook surprise you.
Whichbook — Choose Your Next Book by How You Want to Feel
The idea is beautifully simple: start with a book or author you already enjoy and use that as the clue for finding your next read.
Its current recommendation experience lets readers search hundreds of thousands of titles and explore genres ranging from mystery and romance to horror, biography, business, classics, and more.
Type in one book you couldn't stop reading and see what it puts on your radar next.
Its current recommendation experience lets readers search hundreds of thousands of titles and explore genres ranging from mystery and romance to horror, biography, business, classics, and more.
Type in one book you couldn't stop reading and see what it puts on your radar next.
What Should I Read Next? — Give It One Book You Love
Hardcover combines book discovery with tracking and a social reading experience.
You can browse trending books, new releases, anticipated titles, genres, moods, lists, and recommendations.
I especially like this one for readers who want something that feels built around their reading life, rather than simply another page of books everyone already knows.
Explore the trending and mood sections and see if you can find a book your usual recommendation apps haven't shown you yet.
You can browse trending books, new releases, anticipated titles, genres, moods, lists, and recommendations.
I especially like this one for readers who want something that feels built around their reading life, rather than simply another page of books everyone already knows.
Explore the trending and mood sections and see if you can find a book your usual recommendation apps haven't shown you yet.
Hardcover — Discover Books Without Living on Bestseller Lists
Read Great Books Without Spending a Fortune
Your next read doesn't always need to cost anything. These sites can help you find free public-domain books, digital library books, previews, and classics you can legally read online.
Want to read Frankenstein, Dracula, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, or another older classic? Check Project Gutenberg first.
It specializes in free ebooks whose copyright status allows them to be distributed through the project.
You can browse and download books in several formats without turning the experience into an online shopping trip.
Pick one classic you've been saying you'll read “someday” and make someday today.
It specializes in free ebooks whose copyright status allows them to be distributed through the project.
You can browse and download books in several formats without turning the experience into an online shopping trip.
Pick one classic you've been saying you'll read “someday” and make someday today.
Project Gutenberg — Thousands of Classics You Can Read for Free
Project Gutenberg is fantastic for access. Standard Ebooks takes public-domain literature and puts extra effort into typography, formatting, metadata, cover design, and overall ebook quality.
If you enjoy classics but hate ugly or poorly formatted ebook files, you need to know about this one.
Browse by subject and download something you've always wanted to read—the books themselves are free.
If you enjoy classics but hate ugly or poorly formatted ebook files, you need to know about this one.
Browse by subject and download something you've always wanted to read—the books themselves are free.
Standard Ebooks — Free Classics That Actually Look Beautiful
Open Library feels much closer to exploring an actual library online.
You can browse books by subjects, use reading lists, keep a reading log, search within books, and borrow eligible digital titles.
The project describes its goal as building a web page for every book ever published.
Search for something that's been sitting on your TBR—you might discover that you can access it without buying another copy.
You can browse books by subjects, use reading lists, keep a reading log, search within books, and borrow eligible digital titles.
The project describes its goal as building a web page for every book ever published.
Search for something that's been sitting on your TBR—you might discover that you can access it without buying another copy.
Open Library — Browse a Giant Digital Library From Home
If your local library supports Libby, don't let that library card sit unused.
Libby lets participating-library users borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines digitally.
You can search titles, place holds, save books for later, and browse lists selected by libraries and librarians.
Connect your library card and search for the book you're about to buy—you may be able to borrow it first.
Libby lets participating-library users borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines digitally.
You can search titles, place holds, save books for later, and browse lists selected by libraries and librarians.
Connect your library card and search for the book you're about to buy—you may be able to borrow it first.
Libby — Your Library Card Might Be More Powerful Than You Think
Google Books is especially useful when you know what you're looking for inside a book, but not necessarily which book has it.
You can search book text, view bibliographic information and previews when available, find related information, and follow links to libraries or places where a book is available.
Public-domain titles may even be available in full.
Try searching a topic you're obsessed with instead of a book title—you may uncover books you didn't even know existed.
You can search book text, view bibliographic information and previews when available, find related information, and follow links to libraries or places where a book is available.
Public-domain titles may even be available in full.
Try searching a topic you're obsessed with instead of a book title—you may uncover books you didn't even know existed.
Google Books — Search Inside Books Before Choosing Your Next Read
Track Your Books & Find Readers Like You
A good reading life becomes even more fun when you can remember what you've read and see what other readers are discovering. These websites help you organize your books, build a TBR, review what you read, and join book-loving communities.
If your bookshelf is becoming difficult to keep track of, LibraryThing goes much deeper than a simple “read/want to read” list.
You can catalog books, track reading progress, rate and review them, see statistics, receive recommendations, and find readers with similar libraries.
LibraryThing says its service is free and its community includes nearly three million book lovers.
Start adding your favorite books and see what your own library says about your reading taste.
You can catalog books, track reading progress, rate and review them, see statistics, receive recommendations, and find readers with similar libraries.
LibraryThing says its service is free and its community includes nearly three million book lovers.
Start adding your favorite books and see what your own library says about your reading taste.
LibraryThing — Build a Home for Your Entire Book Collection
Sometimes finishing a great book creates another problem: You desperately want someone to talk about it with.
Fable is built around social reading, book discovery, clubs, discussions, and tracking what you're reading.
It's especially worth exploring if you enjoy the community side of books rather than treating reading as a completely solo hobby.
Find a club reading something already on your TBR and join the conversation.
Fable is built around social reading, book discovery, clubs, discussions, and tracking what you're reading.
It's especially worth exploring if you enjoy the community side of books rather than treating reading as a completely solo hobby.
Find a club reading something already on your TBR and join the conversation.
Fable — Join Book Clubs Instead of Reading Alone
You discover an author with 17 novels. Now the question is: where do you even start?
Fantastic Fiction is excellent for browsing authors' complete works and seeing series in order.
Its database covers tens of thousands of fiction authors and also highlights new and upcoming books.
This is one I'd bookmark just for those moments when you discover a series halfway through.
Search your favorite fiction author and see whether you've missed anything.
Fantastic Fiction is excellent for browsing authors' complete works and seeing series in order.
Its database covers tens of thousands of fiction authors and also highlights new and upcoming books.
This is one I'd bookmark just for those moments when you discover a series halfway through.
Search your favorite fiction author and see whether you've missed anything.
Fantastic Fiction
Sometimes you don't need 50,000 opinions. You just want enough useful information to decide: “Is this actually worth my time?”
BookBrowse offers reviews, recommendations, previews, author information, book-club resources, and other content aimed at readers looking for worthwhile books.
It offers both free and premium content. Browse a genre you already love and see whether something unfamiliar catches your attention.
BookBrowse offers reviews, recommendations, previews, author information, book-club resources, and other content aimed at readers looking for worthwhile books.
It offers both free and premium content. Browse a genre you already love and see whether something unfamiliar catches your attention.
BookBrowse — Find Your Next Book Without Drowning in Thousands of Reviews
Book Riot feels less like searching a database and more like having a huge group of book lovers constantly saying: “Wait—you need to read this.”
You'll find themed reading lists, new releases, genre recommendations, reading news, reviews, and plenty of rabbit holes for building an increasingly dangerous TBR.
Open one recommendation article and see how many books you end up saving.
Fair warning: your TBR probably won't get shorter.
You'll find themed reading lists, new releases, genre recommendations, reading news, reviews, and plenty of rabbit holes for building an increasingly dangerous TBR.
Open one recommendation article and see how many books you end up saving.
Fair warning: your TBR probably won't get shorter.
Book Riot — When You Want Book Recommendations With Personality