Top 10 Book Review and Discovery sites
December 02, 2025 | Editor: Maria Lin
Book review and recommendation sites allow to discover new interesting books to read.
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Discover and share books you love on Goodreads, the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations
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LibraryThing is free cataloging and social networking site for book lovers. LibraryThing allows to create online catalog of books and access it from anywhere - even on your mobile phone. You can upload own books and parse metadata from Amazon, track your reading progress, rate and review books. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next. You can check out other peoples' libraries, see whose library is most similar to yours, swap reading suggestions, and more. You can also turn your library into a real online catalog for visitors. Available in over 50 languages.
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StoryGraph is the all-in-one platform for your bookish needs. It's a fully-featured Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads. Storygraph helps to track your reading and choose your next book based on your mood and your favorite topics and themes. Organise, search, and filter books by your tags and share curated lists with friends.
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Literal.club allows to track your reading and discover new books, follow friends and join clubs to collectively explore the ideas of the world's greatest authors.
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Whichbook gives you a number of scales to use to determine what type of a book you are looking for. You can choose a set point between unpredictable and expected, beautiful or disgusting, conventional or unusual, optimistic or bleak and many more. Then, the site generates book suggestions that fit your request. Loads of fun to play with the different options and you’re guaranteed a book that fits your mood perfectly.
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FictionDB is the best place to start looking for a great book. Here you will find simple lists of books in order by author and by series. You can also search our extensive fiction database using a wide variety of criteria. Easily find books where you don't remember the title.
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BingeBooks is a new online community created by authors and book lovers to foster book discovery. The site is self-funded by more than 120 founding authors whose passion is to help readers find new books, genres and authors.
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BookPage is a monthly book review publication distributed to more than 450,000 avid readers through subscribing bookstores and public libraries. Founded in 1988 and located in Nashville, TN, BookPage serves as a broad-based selection guide to the best new books published every month. The tone is upbeat and literate, focusing on bestsellers as well as new discoveries. All of the content from the print edition is posted on BookPage.com each month.
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Discovering a new book should be a magical experience where the search is part of the fun. Shepherd creates fun ways to explore and discover books.
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Discover great books by exploring blogs and let others discover best books thank to your book reviews. Writing reviews was never so easy, fast and engaging - connect your review with a single book or whole book series. Collect books and personalize your bookshelf with a design and book sources. Meet book lovers, writers, reviewers, bloggers and explore their reading world.
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BookGorilla sends you a single daily email alert with the best deals on Kindle books that match your reading preferences, including bestsellers and freebies. Imagine a single daily email, tailored to your personal reading preferences, featuring the best deals on the best Kindle ebooks, either completely free or at deeply discounted bargain prices.
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Shelve and show off your books. Find. Discover your next book with the help of the aNobii community. Share. Rate and review your books, share on Facebook and Twitter
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Likewise allows to find book recommendations (based on your unique tastes and fueled by a community of passionate users), discover, collect, and share your favorite books
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BookBub is a free service that helps you discover books you'll love through unbeatable deals, handpicked recommendations, and updates from your favorite authors. BookBub doesn't actually sell books. We simply introduce you to books you'll love that are available on retailers like Amazon's Kindle store, Barnes & Noble's Nook store, Apple Books, and others.
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Longreads is dedicated to helping people find and share the best storytelling in the world, including both nonfiction and fiction. Longreads are defined as anything over 1,500 words. They’re stories that are best enjoyed away from your desk — whether it’s on a daily commute, an airplane, a subway, or your couch. Longreads features stories from hundreds of the best writers and publishers on the web, as well as exclusive stories never before published online.
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Best book summaries & audio book guides. Blinkist offers the key insights from top nonfiction in a made-for-mobile format.
Latest news about Book Review and Discovery sites
23.09.25. Apple sued by authors for illegal AI training on books
Apple has received a lawsuit from group of book authors who claim that the company trained its AI - Apple Intelligence - on large repositories of pirated ebooks, specifically Books3, a massive dataset containing nearly 200,000 illegally copied works. Lawsuits over AI training on pirated books are now involving significant sums of money. Recently, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by a group of authors who accused the company of using their books to train its chatbot, Claude, without permission. In June, Microsoft was sued by a group of authors who claimed the company used their books to train its Megatron model. Meta also faced claims for allegedly infringing copyrighted material in AI training, but in the end won the case.
2025. Talpa Search integrated with Aspen Discovery
LibraryThing's book-search service Talpa Search is now available in Aspen Discovery - open source discovery system that gives patrons seamless access to all library resources in one place. Aspen Discovery libraries can now enable Talpa Search as a search mode, allowing patrons to search for books using natural language, see results from Talpa Search seamlessly integrated into the look and feel of their library catalog. For example Talpa Search can find items by the description of plot details, genre, descriptions and more. It enables users to search for “novels about France during World War II” or “recent cozy mysteries” and receive relevant results, all within their existing library catalog, without special syntax or filtering.
