Besides Amazon, what are some great sites that discuss books and give recommendations?

October 7, 2009 8:10 PM

Besides Amazon, what are some great sites where books are discussed and recommendations are given?
posted by helios410 to Media & Arts (13 answers total)

betterworldbooks.com is great because they raise money for literacy all over the world.
posted by beccyjoe at 8:14 PM on October 7, 2009

Powell's.
posted by Wordwoman at 8:14 PM on October 7, 2009

goodreads, Powells.com, gnod, shelfari
posted by Sara Anne at 8:16 PM on October 7, 2009

Seconding goodreads.
posted by pintapicasso at 8:31 PM on October 7, 2009

Librarything.com
posted by frobozz at 8:34 PM on October 7, 2009

Thirding goodreads, although you need to have a few friends who use it. I'm sure you can find some there.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 9:11 PM on October 7, 2009

Anobii.com not only has tagging and searchable reviews but also groups that range from a handful of people to thousands of like minds. You can also watch the shelves of anyone on the system. They use the terms friends and neighbors. Friends are people you know. Neighbors are people you don't know but you'd like to keep track of their updates anyway.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 9:20 PM on October 7, 2009 [1 favorite]

Metafilter wiki entry on "reading" and collected ReadMe's from the wiki
posted by ijoyner at 10:12 PM on October 7, 2009

http://www.themillions.com/
posted by matildaben at 10:34 PM on October 7, 2009 [1 favorite]

A friend swears by Bookslut.
posted by gudrun at 12:34 AM on October 8, 2009

Goodreads is fantastic.
posted by blackcatcuriouser at 5:18 AM on October 8, 2009

LibraryThing rules: it's got reader reviews and lots of tags, and, once your library is entered, lots more recommendations and statistics and suchlike features.
posted by wenestvedt at 6:10 AM on October 8, 2009

Paperbackswap.com has good forums.
posted by soelo at 7:17 AM on October 8, 2009