BookBrowse.com seeks out and recommends the most exceptional current books and provides a substantial excerpt of each book and the full range of media opinion. Subscription features (available to patrons of this library) include access to their online magazines with in-depth reviews and previews; handpicked “if you like this, try these” recommendations; browsing by genre, time period, geographical setting or theme; advice on starting & running a book club and the opportunity to invite well-known authors to chat with your book club by phone.

Do you love to read?  NoveList will help fiction readers find new authors and titles. NoveList contains over 73,000 titles, many with reviews and sample first chapters. Find author read-alikes, book discussion guides, award winners, author biographies, and recommendations for any age group.

- The online edition of the monthly print newsletter that you get here at the library, BookPage offers book reviews and author interviews from all genres of fiction and non-fiction.

BookNews offers lists of our newest items in fiction, non-fiction, children's, teens, and more. View the lists online now, or you may choose to subscribe to any and all lists and receive them in your email each month. Unsubscribe at any time.

What Are the Book Clubs Reading? - There are several active Book Clubs in Cheshire, and this a sampling of some of the books that they have been reading and discussing recently.

- The 2008 Locus Award Winners include the best new science fiction and fantasy novels, short stories, anthologies, and more.

- Each year, the National Book Foundation celebrates the best of American literature in the fields of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young people's Literature.

- Contains more than 7,000 categorized links to book sites around the world, including links to newsgroups, antiquarian booksellers and on-line library catalogs.

- An online Literary Criticism Collection that contains over 2500 critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works.

- LibraryThing is a catalog of over 25 million books on members' shelves, tagged by the members themselves. Use LibraryThing's Search function to find a book that you've read and enjoyed, and then use LibraryThing's Recommendations and Members Reviews to find similar books that you might also enjoy. Here, for example, is a LibraryThing entry for Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

Overbooked - Online since 1994, Overbooked is a website for ravenous & omnivorous readers. Specializing in literary and genre fiction information and readable non-fiction, Overbooked features booklists by genre, starred review lists, author connections, and a social space for the chronically overbooked.

Are you a FAN of a particular author?

If so, check out FAN, our Favorite Author Notification program.  Choose your favorite authors from a list of almost two hundred current writers.  Whenever the author publishes a new book, the Cheshire Public Library will automatically place you on the reserve list.  No more filling out reserve slips, no more wondering "what should I read next?"  Stop by the Circulation Desk and fill out a form.  A staff member will be there to help if you have questions.

updated October 8, 2008