Finding a good book these days can seem a little like you’re the Monty Python team searching for the Holy Grail, especially if you’re looking for something exciting and new.
The beast that is Amazon has an ever-expanding bookshelf of new titles coming out every day. So we’ve put a handy list of 28 of the best websites that will help you find what book to read next, so you can spend your time reading great books.
1. Goodreads
If you’re an avid reader then you probably already know about Goodreads. If you don’t, you need to sign up. It’s the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Their mission is to help readers find and share the books that they love. It also allows you to see what book your friends are reading, share what books you have read, are currently reading and create a wishlist.
Furthermore, their recommendation engine analyzes 20 billion data points to give suggestions tailored to your literary tastes so that you never run out of things to read.
2. BookBub
BookBub is another giant in the book recommendation game. It’s 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 personalised daily email alerting them to the best free and deeply discounted titles matching their interests as selected by our editorial team.
The books can be a little hit and miss as authors pay to be on here, but there is a pretty intensive review process so you can be sure that the books featured are of a pretty high standard. It’s a great site to get huge discounts on some new and bestselling authors.
3. Book Swag
Book Swag is a similar site to BookBub. It’s fairly new on the scene and offers free weekly emails that help you find the best eBooks from established, new and indie authors. However, its main difference to BookBub is that the authors featured on the site haven’t paid to be there. Their books are chosen for one reason – they’re exciting books that the team have found worthy to be recommended.
4. Awesomegang
Awesomegang is a free service for readers to find books across many genres. Every day there is a minimum of 100 new books to choose from that are free or deeply discounted.
You can discover a new author and find a good book to fill up your reading device in just a few clicks. Hint: Use the search box and enter a genre you like and you will discover some cool books.
5. Buckbooks.net
Buck Books is a free service that helps readers discover free and time-limited deals on highly rated eBooks. Members receive personalised notification emails alerting them to the best free and deeply discounted ebooks matching their genre of interest, as provided by their selection team.
6. Jellybooks
Jellybooks offers readers ebooks free-of-charge from leading publishers. These are Advance Readings Copies (ARCs) that are made available as an ebook for test reading purposes.
In many cases these will be available to you even before they are released to the general public. In return, they ask that you help them understand how you read books. This is really simple: read the ebook they provide and at the end of each chapter click the “sync reading stream” button in return for receiving the free ebook.
You may also choose to write a review, but this is entirely optional. They are primarily interested in your reading data.
7. Your Next Read
The team behind YourNextRead love to read. The site follows a similar premise to GoodReads by providing a book recommendation system showing aggregated book reviews, updated by real people’s opinions, in a simple visual map, helping you to decide ‘What Should I Read Next?’. Perfect for both bookworms and casual readers!
8. LibraryThing
LibraryThing is a user-powered book ratings, review, and recommendation site. It’s an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone.
A free account allows you to catalog up to 200 books. A paid account allows you to catalog any number of books. Paid personal accounts cost $10 for a year or $25 for a lifetime.
9. Booktastik
Booktastik was created with both readers and authors in mind. Booktastik is where readers and books come together. They’ve made it as easy as possible for you to choose your next read – from letting you know about the best ebook deals and new releases, to providing quality reviews on all types of books.
Also, if you love competitions and giveaways, there are plenty of book-related ones to enter.
10. Olmenta
Olmenta is a simple tiled list of book covers that the service thinks you should read. You can select several genres like business, fiction, children’s, theater, poetry, or nonfiction, and several others. It’s a pretty straightforward book recommendation site. If you like the book recommendations, be sure to visit the site regularly for new updates.
11. Bookish
Bookish is run by a team of readers who explore the literary worlds that we long to live in. Within the site you’ll find everything from GIF reviews to serious essays on genre dynamics, author interviews, book recommendations, listicles and seasonal previews.
The site’s goal is to give readers more information about the books, authors, and genres that they love while also introducing them to new titles, debut writers, and genres they never thought they’d read.
12. Pretty-Hot
Pretty-Hot started out as a romance site but as the site grew authors submitted the other genres they were writing in and now the site has almost every genre covered to find good books. It is heavily focused on romance and paranormal romance and any other type of romance books that are hot!
13. What should I read next?
What Should I Read Next couldn’t be simpler, enter a book you like and the site will analyse their massive database of real readers’ favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions related to that title.
14. The Staff Recommends
Publishers send The Staff Recommends books they’d like to be considered for the site and they only recommend those books that they like and want to be featured. Only after a book has gone through the review process do the publisher pay a fee to be featured. Each book has a persuasive summary and review of the book.
15. AllReaders
AllReaders classify books based on plot, setting, character, and writing style. Therefore, if you know what kind of book you like, you can find other authors who write similar kinds of stories. For example, if you like murder mysteries involving the murder of lawyers on a cruise ship in the 1990’s where the investigator loves her Mom but hates cats, you can actually search for a crime story with that kind of plot and main character.
16. ManyBooks
ManyBooks provides 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. ManyBooks has grown into a platform where self-publishing authors have the opportunity to introduce their work to their reader community. New books are uploaded daily.
17. Whichbook
Whichbook classifies titles by feelings or states of mind. Move the sliders from “happy” to “sad” or from “safe” to “disturbing” and Whichbook generates a list of best matches.
18. Readgeek
Readgeek knows the books you would like to read but don’t know how to find them. You won’t depend on bestseller lists or well-intentioned tips anymore and still find exactly what you were looking for. Far beyond the mainstream. We use statistics and some calculations to find out what you would like.
19. Read Cheaply
ReadCheaply is a free daily email that alerts you to awesome deals on acclaimed eBooks that match your interests. You pick the categories and we forward the deals!
ReadCheaply alerts you to the amazing limited-time deals that become available at retailers like Amazon’s Kindle store, Barnes & Noble’s Nook store, Apple’s iBooks store, Google Play store, Kobo and others.
20. The Fussy Librarian
The Fussy Librarian was the first website to match readers not only with the genre of books they like but also their preferences about content. Do you only read mysteries without profanity, violence and sex? Then we’ll tell you only about cozy mysteries. Read just memoirs and gory horror novels? No problem.
21. Book Gorilla
Quality books at great prices, delivered straight to your inbox every day. These book recommendations are tailored to your personal reading preferences, featuring the best deals on the best Kindle ebooks, either completely free or at deeply discounted bargain prices. At BookGorilla you can get bestselling books at prices ranging from free to $2 or $3?
22. Forewordz
Forewordz is a book lover’s community connecting authors and readers through daily eBook deals and special promotions. They’re one part discount eBook recommendation service, one part book discovery tool, and one part author marketing platform all fused together by a universal and evergreen love of books.
23. ebook Soda
Great ebook deals tailored to your taste. Whether you want cheap ebooks, free ebooks or bargain ebooks, tell them what you like, they’ll dive in and pull out the ones you’ll love. They find ebook deals for all devices – Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Nook, Kobo, laptop and more.
24. Free Kindle Books and Tips
Kindle Books & Tips has a simple purpose: to provide an interactive blog where you will receive tips to maximize your Kindle experience, author interviews, articles from the author’s take on the eBook world, links to special and discounted Kindle books, and the heads-up on the numerous books, short stories, and more.
25. Bargain Booksy
Bargain Booksy finds the best deals on cheap books and ebooks. Get great deals on all-time best-selling books. They‘ll find the perfect book for you. Select what format you prefer and the genres you love and they’ll do the rest! The site features the best fiction, non-fiction and best-selling ebooks on the web.
26. BookSends
BookSends is a daily email service that allows you to choose the genre of books you want to get deals about. In the email, you’ll find info about the day’s best deals and links to get them. Not only will you discover great books from bestselling, award-winning authors, you’ll be able to get them at a fraction of the price.
27. Bargain ebook Hunter
Bargain eBook Hunter are dedicated to hunting through the digital publishing world for eBooks at great deals (from FREE to $5.00) and putting them on their site to provide readers a one-stop shopping experience. You will find titles that comprise the full gamut of styles from short stories to novels and from all genres.
28. Discount Books Daily
Discount Books Daily is a team of book lovers with a combined 15 years experience in publishing, online media, ecommerce and start-ups. They’ve partnered with both traditional publishers and top-notch indie authors, to deliver popular and unique titles that you may not have discovered otherwise.
Discount Books Daily delivers one daily email that features a selection of ebooks that match your pre-selected genres for mostly under $5 and sometimes free!
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