Looking for another great book? But not sure what to choose. Check out some of these websites to help you find your next read!

On-Line Resources

Databases

Books & Authors - Lively reviews and recommendations make book selection fun.
The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757‒1817) represent the largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century English news media. 

Ebooks - Enjoy unlimited access to top reference eBooks.

Literature: LitFinder - provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images.

Popular Magazines - The most popular and current magazines available from all of the Gale resources.

Oregon and Pacific Northwest

Books set in Oregon: 

• Tale Away has a list of 61 books set in Oregon, last updated in 2018. 
• Goodreads Listopia Books Set in Oregon - user created list begun in 2012 with 529 books and counting.

Oregon Authors - Travel Oregon article of some of their favorite Oregon authors.  Published March 2020.

Oregon Authors Project - aims to provide access to information and resources about authors who call or have called Oregon their home. This site promotes and highlights their work, providing important snapshots into the history of Oregon and highlights authors in a variety a ways.

By Genre

Mystery Readers International -  a fan/reader organization open to all readers, fans, critics, editors, publishers, and writers of mystery fiction.

 Stop, You're Killing Me Hundreds of mystery authors, with complete, chronological lists of their books. Indexed by author or series character, genre, location, occupation, and more. One of the BEST mystery sites for reading lists and series in order.

Worlds Without End - a fan-run web site dedicated to identifying, reading and sharing the best Speculative Fiction books the genre has to offer. While the site initially focused on books which had been nominated for, or won, awards, it has expanded to include works identified on a number of prominent curated lists of the Best of Speculative Fiction, as well as a large body of other published works of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

Historical Novels- includes over 5000 historical novels listed by time and place, and includes more than 700 reviews.

General

Fantastic Fiction - one of the world's most popular book information websites. Contains pages for over 60,000 authors, with books listed in chronological order and grouped within series. Every page is kept up to date with the latest books and anything upcoming - often long before they are announced on the author's website.

Goodreads - the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Their mission is to help readers discover books they love and get more out of reading.

Reading Group Choices - has been selecting discussible books for reading groups since 1994. Reading Group Choices partners with publishers, independent bookstores, public libraries, and authors to develop resources to enhance the shared reading group experience.

What Should I Read Next? - a website that recommends books based on reviews and ratings from other readers. You can enter a title, author, or ISBN number, and the site will provide book recommendations for you to read next.

Which Book - a new way to choose where the reader is control.  Choose books by mood and emotion, from the world map, by character and plot, starting from a familiar bestseller.

Book Page - a trusted source for book reviews, recommendations and author interviews.

In the Library

Magazines: Bookmarks

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Of course, the best way to find a great book is to visit your Library and ask your friendly and helpful librarian.

Updated June 2025