Book Discovery Resources
Here, fellow booklovers, are a few online resources to help you discover your next great read, whether through targeted selection or serendipity. Enjoy!
BookFilter
BookFilter allows you to data-mine for books by defining a range for average rating, number of ratings, year(s) published, genre, and more. It's a nice resource to discover, for example, highly-rated mysteries from 2024--or best science fiction from the 1950s.
Literature-Map
https://www.literature-map.com/
The more people like an author and another author, the closer together these two authors will move on the Literature-Map. Testing it with authors that I like seems to prove the concept, and has given me some new authors to consider based on other authors I like.
Book Marks
Book Marks logs book reviews from industry sites around the world. When a book is reviewed by at least three outlets, each of those reviews is assigned an individual rating (Rave, Positive, Mixed or Pan). These ratings are then averaged into a result and the book becomes part of the Book Marks database.
Five Books
Five Books' staff asks authors and other experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. "The Best Detective Fiction, recommended by Jeffrey Archer", for example.
CrimeReads
If you enjoy crime and mystery, whether fiction or non-fiction, these lists, essays, and reviews should scratch your itch. The website design is a little... sub-optimal, but I've discovered some good authors and titles thanks to this site.