Novelist is much, much more than a list of novels -- it's a database in which you can look up books you might like using information about books you know you like. If you choose either the “find a favorite author” or “find a favorite title” option, you can look up an author or title you like and get recommendations for other books (by the same author and/or different authors). You can choose the “describe a plot” option to find books with a plot you like (thrillers set on submarines in World War II, for example). You can also find other books in a series using one book you've read. There are various other search options too. Check it out!
YALSA Booklists and Book Awards
Contains many regularly updated lists from the Young Adult Library Services Association. Lists range from the quite useful but not-too-excitingly named “best books for young adults” to the slightly-less-generically-named “outstanding books for the college bound.”
Chosen each year by the Association for Library Services to Children, Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor books are widely considered to be some of the best books written. Uni has almost all of the Newbery Medal books and many of the Honor books.
This is a commercial site that links its reviews to Amazon.com, but they keep on top of new releases in a lot of different genres and have nice, short summaries of potential reads.
Santa Clara County (CA) Teen Books and Authors
Made by the Santa Clara County Library, this site has lists by genre (e.g., horror, historical fiction, biography...).
Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction
Some of the best novels ever written. We have some of them, but not nearly all. We can get them from the UIUC library, however. If you go here you can also see get to lists of Pulitzer-winning biographies/autobiographies, poetry, nonfiction, etc., etc.
Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!
A group of booklists for those of you teens out there who need a good read, but are wondering if there’s life after Judy Blume and Brian Jacques. Teens can write their own reviews too, and comment on reviews already posted.
Do you have to know what new books are coming out? Definitely check out this site; it lists upcoming and recently published books with links to Amazon.com.
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