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By: WPW

I rely on John Self's blog Asylum for books I won't hear about in the newspaper review sections. He loves books, takes his time, and has superb taste. And I would like to add to the praise here for The...

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By: stampsgal

I am a librarian in a public library. Booklist magazine is one of my favorites for book reviews; I also read Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and BookPage on a regular basis. I second the rec for...

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By: escabeche

You're in the Midwest, not in Chicago: so is Rain Taxi, an excellent and highly variegated book review out of the Twin Cities.

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By: anaelith

MeFi's own John Scalzi (also president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) has a regular feature called The Big Idea where writers can promote new novels. The rest of his blog also...

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By: mlle valentine

Yay for Europa (who I freelance for)! I also do work for Melville House; perhaps check out MobyLives. To put on my personal reading hat, I find that browsing Publishers Weekly gives me a good idea of...

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By: drezdn

I'm a big fan of The Boswell and Books blog by Boswell Book Company owner (and my former boss) Daniel Goldin. His employees have a blog too.

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By: Handstand Devil

The Quarterly Conversation, The Complete Review, and Three Percent are great, especially for literature in English translation (for instance, lots of Europa Edition reviews on The Complete Review).

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By: snorkmaiden

It's only yearly, but the The Morning News Tournament of Books is always full of excellent books, some hyped and some not. Quill & Quire is the Canadian publishing industry mag, and might give you...

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By: Sidhedevil

To self-link, I try to review a lot of small-press and other less hyped books.

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By: moons in june

I love you guys so much.

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By: matildaben

I love that whenever I recommend The Millions on AskMe, cmaxmagee favorites my comment. I don't work for him, I swear. (I'm not fishing for favorites, either.)

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By: Daily Alice

The Reader's Advisor Online Blog aggregates a lot of book news weekly.

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By: neroli

I've gotten some of my best recommendations from non-book-specific blogs: BLDGBLOG's "Books Received" posts and Jace Clayton's Mudd Up Book Clubb

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By: ourobouros

Directly from my feedreader, in rough order of how much I love them: - The Rumpus - The Millions - Bookslut - HTML Giant - Largehearted Boy The Bat Segundo podcast is not only an amazing reading list...

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By: moons in june

Sorry, trying not to thread-sit, but I just have to say the suggestions so far are outstanding, more more more!

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By: moons in june

Thanks for mentioning the millions, that is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for. I forgot to add the book sites I already visit: the millions, bookslut, shelf awareness, onion av club, New York...

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By: wintersonata9

Indie Next is great. Booksellers from independent bookstores submit reviews of their favorite new books every month. Your store should carry their newsletter if it doesn't already. Some of the books...

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By: PhoBWanKenobi

There are so, so many book blogs. The Book Smugglers are my favorite book blog, with The Readventurer pulling a close second. But I'm more of a YA person (I have a YA sci-fi review blog myself at the...

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By: matildaben

http://www.themillions.com/

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By: rabbitrabbit

Would Publishers Weekly be too obvious?

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