“What are the best websites for book lovers?” We looked at 27 different lists and found 381 different websites perfect for literature lovers of all ages and genres.
The top literature websites we gathered are perfect for every book related subject you can think of. There are book recommendation websites, bookstore sites, literary blogs, book e-commerce sites, old books, book cover, review, criticism, list, ebook, history, and every other kind of book website you can think of.
Below you will find our countdown of the top 54 websites with links. There are a few (including the number 3 site) that have either merged with other websites, been bought out, or closed down. Fortunately, there are new book websites popping up every day (ahem) so even though there are close to 400 book websites listed below, it is nowhere close to being representative of all the wonderful sites that exist on the web.
After the top 54 websites that appear on multiple lists you can find the remaining 327 sites that appear on a single list each. The 27 sources we used are at the bottom of the page.
Happy Scrolling!
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BookBub is a free service that helps millions of readers discover great deals on acclaimed ebooks while providing publishers and authors with a way to drive sales and find new fans. Members receive a personalized daily email alerting them to the best free and deeply discounted titles matching their interests as selected by our editorial team.
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BookPage is a monthly book review publication distributed to 400,000 avid readers through subscribing bookstores and public libraries. Founded in 1988 and located in Nashville, Tennessee, BookPage serves as a broad-based selection guide to the best new books published every month. All of the content from the print edition is posted on BookPage.com each month.
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“Manybooks was established in 2004 with the vision to provide an extensive library of books in digital format for free on the Internet. Many of the early eBooks are from the Project Gutenberg archives, which means you will be able to find a lot of classics on the site.
Over a decade later, we are still going strong in our mission to provide a valuable service to our readers. Manybooks has grown into a platform where self-publishing authors have the opportunity to introduce their work to our community and new books are uploaded to our site daily – provided they comply to our quality standards.”
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Scribd is the membership for readers. Our mission is to change the way the world reads. We aim to empower readers to indulge their curiosities and expand their knowledge.
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Each year, better than 175,000 books are published, and you’re going to read what, 10? 15? 50? Books can be pricey, a real investment of money and time—you can’t afford to choose poorly. Or, you’re going on vacation and packing space is limited. Do you want to be stuck with a dud? The Staff Recommends makes sure you’ll have a dud-free reading life.
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If you’re not good at remembering book titles, or if you are the sort of reader who likes to choose by browsing round a little and seeing what tempts you, whichbook is the perfect solution to help you find what you are looking for.
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Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. When we find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, we’ll link to it in your search results.
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Our mission is to amplify the power of storytelling with digital innovation, and to ensure that literature remains a vibrant presence in popular culture by supporting writers, embracing new technologies, and building community to broaden the audience for literature.
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New York Review Books brings together some of the finest writing in science, philosophy, history, politics, the arts, and literature from the Review’s contributors in book format.
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Welcome to The Millions, an online magazine offering coverage on books, arts, and culture since 2003. The Millions has been featured on NPR and noted by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Village Voice, among others.
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Welcome to NPR Books! Here, you’ll find links to recent author interviews, reviews, and book picks, as well as conversations about what you’re reading, the future of publishing, and other lit-ish links. Hang out for a while
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the largest Internet-based retailer in the world
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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.
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An awesome site that allows you to trade books for free with other members!
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“Book Riot is dedicated to the idea that writing about books and reading should be just as diverse as books and readers are. So sometimes we are serious and sometimes silly. Some of our writers are pros. Many of them aren’t. We like a good list just as much as we like a good review. We think you can like both J.K. Rowling and J.M. Coetzee and that there are smart, funny, and informative things to say about both and that you shouldn’t have to choose.
And the only thing we like as much as books is talking about books with other readers. So welcome to Book Riot—you seem like our kind of people.”
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If you simply want a quick recommendation, you only need to enter one book; click on the best match in the list that appears as you type and you will get some recommendations. The best thing to do, though, is enter a list of favorites. This will give you more focused recommendations, as well as helping to build the database and share your taste with other users of the site. If you enter your email address, your list of favorites will be remembered next time you visit, so you can then add new titles, create more lists, and get even more appropriate recommendations.
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“LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
In April 2013, LibraryThing staff and members collaborated to write What makes LibraryThing LibraryThing?, a blog post outlining what we see as the key elements of LibraryThing.”
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“See which books your friends are reading.
Track the books you’re reading, have read, and want to read.
Check out your personalized book recommendations. Our recommendation engine analyzes 20 billion data points to give suggestions tailored to your literary tastes.
Find out if a book is a good fit for you from our community’s reviews.”
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101 Books | (NZ Booklovers) |
3:AM Magazine | (Flavorwire) |
A Common Reader | (Masters in English) |
A Public Space | (Masters in English) |
A Year of Reading the World | (Superhero You) |
AALBC.com | (Aalbc) |
ABC Tales Radio | (Aalbc) |
AbeBooks | (Kevin Bondelli) |
ACU Press & Leafwood Publishers Book Club | (Masters in English) |
AddAll.com | (About Tech) |
Ads Without Products | (Masters in English) |
AllReaders.com | (Make Use Of (Again)) |
Americabookshelf.com | (Mashable) |
American Literature | (Bayside Journal) |
Annabel’s House of Books | (Masters in English) |
Athena | (Kevin Bondelli) |
AuthorsDen.com | (Late McMilliam) |
Avid Reader Book Club | (Aalbc) |
B & N Community | (Aalbc) |
B.A.D. Girls Book Club | (Masters in English) |
Baen Free Library | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Barnes & Noble | (Fromdev) |
Believer Magazine | (Masters in English) |
Beth’s Book Reviews | (Masters in English) |
Bibli | (Mashable) |
Bibliomania | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Bibliophil | (Aalbc) |
BibMe | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Big City Book Club | (Masters in English) |
Blippr | (OEDb) |
BlogCritics | (Masters in English) |
Bluestalking | (Masters in English) |
Blurb.com | (Mashable) |
BN Review | (Aalbc) |
BOMBLOG | (Masters in English) |
Book and Reader | (Aalbc) |
Book Army | (Aalbc) |
Book Browse | (Masters in English) |
Book Bub | (No Small Talk) |
Book Burro | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Book Chase | (Masters in English) |
Book Genome Project | (Reader’s Digest) |
Book Lamp | (Stylefox) |
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl | (The Do It Yourself Scholar) |
Book Mooch | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Book Movement | (Aalbc) |
Book Nook Club | (Masters in English) |
Book Patrol | (Masters in English) |
Book Talk | (Aalbc) |
Bookaholics Book Club | (Masters in English) |
Bookalicious Babe | (Good E Reader) |
BookGlutton | (Make Use Of) |
Bookhopper.co.uk | (Mashable) |
Bookhub | (Fromdev) |
Booking Mama | (Masters in English) |
Bookish | (Fromdev) |
Bookkaholic | (Fromdev) |
BookLikes | (Good E Reader (Again)) |
Booklover | (Bayside Journal) |
BookMooch.com | (Mashable) |
BookMovement | (Fromdev) |
Bookrageous | (NZ Booklovers) |
Bookrags | (Kevin Bondelli) |
BookRevyoo.com | (Mashable) |
Books a Month | (Aalbc) |
Books on the Nightstand | (Masters in English) |
Books Well Read | (Aalbc) |
Books&Authors (BNA) | (Fromdev) |
Booksalescout.com | (Mashable) |
Booksconnect.com | (Mashable) |
BooksDB | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Bookseer | (Fromdev) |
BookSense | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Booksfree.com | (Mashable) |
Bookshelves.tumblr.com | (The Week) |
Bookspot | (Fromdev) |
Booksprice.com | (Mashable) |
Bookswim.com | (Mashable) |
BookTV | (The Do It Yourself Scholar) |
Bookyards | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Borders Media | (Aalbc) |
Brain Pickings | (Stylefox) |
Buried.com | (Aalbc) |
Buzz, Balls & Hype | (Masters in English) |
Buzzfeed Books | (Good E Reader) |
C-SPAN Book TV | (The Do It Yourself Scholar) |
California Literary Review | (Masters in English) |
Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s New Book Review | (Masters in English) |
Catapult | (Bustle) |
Caustic Cover Critic | (Masters in English) |
Chain Reading | (Aalbc) |
Chicago Tribune | (Make Use Of (Again)) |
Chick Lit Is Not Dead | (Masters in English) |
CHM PDF E-books | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Christian Classics Ethereal Library | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Chronicle Books Blog | (Masters in English) |
Classic Bookshelf | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Classic Reading Groups | (Aalbc) |
Comic Vine | (Aalbc) |
Comics Alliance | (Superhero You) |
Conjunctions Literary Magazine | (Masters in English) |
Connectviabooks.com | (Mashable) |
Conversations Book Club | (Masters in English) |
Cover Spy | (Bustle) |
Deliberate Reader | (Good E Reader) |
Delicious Library | (Mashable) |
deusto.com | (Mashable) |
Diesel E-Books | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Digital Book Index | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Douban.net | (Mashable) |
E-Book Searchr | (Kevin Bondelli) |
eHarlequin | (Aalbc) |
Ejunto | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Epic Reads | (Masters in English) |
Eserver | (Kevin Bondelli) |
EXPLORINGfictions | (Masters in English) |
Facebook.com Favoritebooks | (Mashable) |
Famous Poets and Poems | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Feedbooks.com | (Mashable) |
Fictionaut | (Bayside Journal) |
FiledBy | (Late McMilliam) |
Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations | (Masters in English) |
Flavorwire Books | (Good E Reader) |
FlazX | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Free Ebooks | (Aalbc) |
Free Science | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Free Tech Books | (Kevin Bondelli) |
FreeBooks | (Kevin Bondelli) |
FreeIQ | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Frugal Reader | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Full Stop | (Flavorwire) |
FutureBook | (Masters in English) |
GalleyCat | (Scribendi) |
Gettysburg Review | (Masters in English) |
Girlebooks | (Masters in English) |
Glypho.com | (Mashable) |
Go Book Yourself | (A Book Long Enough) |
Great Books and Classics | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Guernica | (Flavorwire) |
Helping Writers Become Authors | (Scribendi) |
HiLobrow | (Flavorwire) |
How to Tell You’re If You’re in a Novel” | (Good E Reader) |
HTML Giant | (Flavorwire) |
Hungry Like the Woolf | (Masters in English) |
IMustRead | (Fromdev) |
in lieu of a field guide | (Masters in English) |
In Which I Read Vintage Novels | (Good E Reader) |
Indie Store Finder | (About Tech) |
Inkmesh | (Consumer Reports) |
Interpolations | (Masters in English) |
ISBN Spy | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Ivebeenreadinglately | (Masters in English) |
Jane Friedman | (Scribendi) |
JellyBooks | (Fromdev) |
Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog | (Masters in English) |
Juicespot | (Aalbc) |
Just Free Books | (Kevin Bondelli) |
KCRW: Bookworm | (The Do It Yourself Scholar) |
Kirkus Reviews | (Good E Reader (Again)) |
Knowledge Rush | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable | (Flavorwire) |
Lazylibrary.com | (Mashable) |
Letters of Note | (Masters in English) |
Level Up Book Club | (Masters in English) |
Library Books | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Library Elf | (Kevin Bondelli) |
LibriVox | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Link Plus | (The Do It Yourself Scholar) |
Literary Hub | (Bustle) |
Litsum | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Live Search Books | (Mashable) |
London Review of Books | (NZ Booklovers) |
Longform | (Masters in English) |
Longreads | (Masters in English) |
Love, Romance, Passion | (Masters in English) |
LRB Blog | (Good E Reader) |
Luzme | (Consumer Reports) |
Maud Newton | (Masters in English) |
Meetup | (Aalbc) |
Memoware | (Kevin Bondelli) |
mirabile dictu | (Masters in English) |
Mixbook.com | (Mashable) |
Modern Mrs. Darcy | (A Book Long Enough) |
My Jane Austen Book Club | (Masters in English) |
Mystery.net | (Aalbc) |
Nancy Pearl | (A Book Long Enough) |
Neglected Books | (Masters in English) |
Nerdy Book Club | (Masters in English) |
New England Review | (Masters in English) |
New Letters | (Masters in English) |
NonSuch Book | (Masters in English) |
Olmenta | (Lifehacker) |
Online Book Search – University of Pennsylvania | (About Tech) |
OpeningTheBook | (Fromdev) |
Oprah’s Book Club | (Aalbc) |
Other People with Brad Listi | (Flavorwire) |
Oyster | (Consumer Reports) |
Paranormal Book Club | (Masters in English) |
Parnassus Books | (A Book Long Enough) |
Paulo Coelho’s Blog | (Masters in English) |
Pazap.com | (Mashable) |
PDF Geni | (Aalbc) |
Pechorin’s Journal | (Masters in English) |
Penn Digital Library | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Perseus Digital Library | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Pink Monkey | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Ploughshares | (Masters in English) |
Podiobooks | (Kevin Bondelli) |
POPSUGAR Books | (A Book Long Enough) |
Prairie Schooner | (Masters in English) |
Publetariat | (Scribendi) |
Quill & Quire | (Scribendi) |
Rackhub Books | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Rain Taxi | (Masters in English) |
Read It Swap It | (Mashable) |
Read, Breathe, Relax | (Good E Reader) |
Reader’s Almanac | (Masters in English) |
Reader’s Circle | (Aalbc) |
ReadFeeder | (Make Use Of) |
Reading for Sanity | (Masters in English) |
Reading Matters | (Masters in English) |
ReadPrint | (About Tech) |
Readups | (Stylefox) |
Ready Steady Book | (Masters in English) |
Recovering Potter Addict | (Good E Reader) |
Red Room | (Late McMilliam) |
Reddit’s BookSuggestions Subreddit | (Lifehacker) |
ResoluteReader | (Masters in English) |
ROMAN Reading | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Sacred Texts | (Kevin Bondelli) |
San Francisco Chronicle | (Make Use Of (Again)) |
SciFri Book Club | (Masters in English) |
Sharedbooks.com | (Mashable) |
She Reads | (A Book Long Enough) |
Shelf Centered | (Aalbc) |
Shenandoah: The Washington & Lee University Review | (Masters in English) |
Slaughterhouse 90210 | (Bustle) |
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books | (Masters in English) |
Smartish Pace | (Masters in English) |
Smashwords blog | (Scribendi) |
Snipitron | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Socialbib | (Mashable) |
Squirl.info | (Mashable) |
Steve Adams Writing | (Masters in English) |
Story Cartel | (Bayside Journal) |
Storycode.com | (Mashable) |
Stuffopolis | (Aalbc) |
Subtropics | (Masters in English) |
Swap Simple | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Swapthing | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Table Talk | (Aalbc) |
Tagabook.com | (Mashable) |
Tales from the Reading Room | (Masters in English) |
Tara Lazar’s book blog | (Scribendi) |
Teen Lit Rocks | (A Book Long Enough) |
TeenReads | (Fromdev) |
TeleRead | (Masters in English) |
The American Literary Blog | (Masters in English) |
The American Literary Review | (Masters in English) |
The American Poetry Review | (Masters in English) |
The American Reader | (Flavorwire) |
The American Scholar | (Masters in English) |
The Awl | (Flavorwire) |
The Bat Segundo Show | (Flavorwire) |
The Book Cart | (Kevin Bondelli) |
The Book Designer | (Scribendi) |
The Book Wheel | (Good E Reader) |
The Bookrageous Podcast | (Flavorwire) |
The Bookseller | (Good E Reader) |
The Bookshop Blog | (Masters in English) |
The British Library | (The Do It Yourself Scholar) |
The Cincinnati Review | (Masters in English) |
The Elegant Variation | (Masters in English) |
The Georgia Review | (Masters in English) |
The Goalie’s Anxiety | (Masters in English) |
The Guardian Books Blog | (Good E Reader) |
The Hub | (A Book Long Enough) |
The IndieView | (Scribendi) |
The Kenyon Review | (Masters in English) |
The Literary Life of the Well-Read Wife | (Masters in English) |
The Los Angeles Review of Books | (Flavorwire) |
The Massachusetts Review | (Masters in English) |
The Missouri Review | (Masters in English) |
The Mookse and the Gripes | (Masters in English) |
The Nervous Breakdown | (Flavorwire) |
The New Inquiry | (Flavorwire) |
The Newbie Author’s Guide | (Masters in English) |
The No Commitment Blogger Book Club presented by My Pretty Pennies | (Masters in English) |
The Offing | (Good E Reader) |
The Poetry Archive | (Kevin Bondelli) |
The Public Domain Review | (Flavorwire) |
The Rare Book Room | (Kevin Bondelli) |
The Romance Book Club | (Masters in English) |
The Scholarly Kitchen | (Masters in English) |
The Stacks | (Aalbc) |
The Telegraph | (Make Use Of (Again)) |
The Washington Post Book World | (The Do It Yourself Scholar) |
The Write Practice | (Scribendi) |
The Writer’s Almanac | (Masters in English) |
Thirstt | (Bayside Journal) |
Three Penny Review: The Lesser Blog | (Masters in English) |
Time’s Flow Stemmed | (Masters in English) |
Tin House | (Masters in English) |
Title Trader | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Titlez | (Mashable) |
UVA Electronic Text Center | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Vertigo | (Masters in English) |
Virginia Quarterly Review | (Masters in English) |
Vitalsource.com | (Mashable) |
Vol. 1 Brooklyn | (Bustle) |
Washington Post | (Make Use Of (Again)) |
Wattpad | (Consumer Reports) |
Well Told Tales | (Kevin Bondelli) |
WeRead | (Aalbc) |
What’s On My Bookshelf | (Kevin Bondelli) |
WhatsOnMyBookshelf | (Fromdev) |
Why Not Burn Books | (Masters in English) |
WikiBooks | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Wikindx | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Wowio | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Writer Beware | (Scribendi) |
XOXO After Dark | (Consumer Reports) |
Yale Avalon Project | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Your Story Club | (Bayside Journal) |
YourNextRead | (Fromdev) |
Zestr.com | (Mashable) |
Zotero | (Kevin Bondelli) |
Zunafish | (Kevin Bondelli) |
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