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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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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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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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...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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.
View ArticleBy: 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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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...
View ArticleBy: Sidhedevil
To self-link, I try to review a lot of small-press and other less hyped books.
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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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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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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...
View ArticleBy: moons in june
Sorry, trying not to thread-sit, but I just have to say the suggestions so far are outstanding, more more more!
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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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