Library Closed Saturday, May 25, through Monday, May 27.

Austin Public Library facilities and the Austin History Center will be CLOSED Saturday, May 25, through Monday, May 27. Recycled Reads, the Austin Public Library’s used bookstore, will be open Saturday and Sunday, but will be closed on Memorial Day.

Reviews & Interviews

Fiction & Nonfiction

Book Review Digest Plus
Reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews with coverage beginning in 1983.

BooksinPrint 2.0
The professional bibliographic database with more than 5 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, book, audio book, and video titles.

Booklist Online
Book lists, book reviews, and author interviews. The Editors' Choice lists are top-notch.

Guardian's Books
Book reviews and author interviews from the British perspective.

Indie Next List
Monthly selection of new fiction and nonfiction books chosen by independent booksellers.

Mostly Fiction
New reviews of recommended fiction are posted each week.

National Library Service of the Library of Congress
Annotations of collection's books include "some strong language" and "strong language" to indicate strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex.

New York Times Book Review
Extensive, searchable archive contains 50,000 book reviews back to 1980. Also find current reviews, first chapters, bestsellers, editors' choices, and a readers' forum.

NPR - Fiction
Reviews of new fiction.

Overbooked
Annotated lists of books which received at least one starred review in library journals.

Reader's Advisor Online Blog
News, tips, and fun lists for readers' advisors.


Genre Fiction

International Thriller Writers
Authors and titles from the various suspense genres.

The Romance Reader
Recommends romance novels by category and features readers' top ten lists.

SF Site
Reviews, news, interviews, and links to the best Science Fiction sites on the World Wide Web.

Stop, You're Killing Me
Mystery award winners and read-alikes.

 

APL Recommends

Cover of the book Deception
By Naomi Chase.
Acquitted of murder, Tamia tries to reclaim all that she's lost, including her ex, while her sister Fiona, who betrayed Tamia to save her own skin, finally scores a rich boyfriend, but both must keep a secret in order to survive.