Recommended Book Sites

There are tons of book-based blogs and sites out there. Here are some of our favourites:

• Catalogue all your books online on this books version of a social site. Not as dull as it sounds, and recommended if you have a memory that’s not as good as it was. Features an Unsuggester, the ‘World’s Worst Recommendation Engine’, which gives you the most unlikely books to read once you’ve fed in your favourites.

• An online resource for free ebooks. Is this the end of printed books? The jury's still out on that one.

• A freelance arts journalist and publishing commentator with sharp things to say on the book trade, writers and the world of publishing.

• A really useful site: brings together all the daily news stories on the arts; this is the publishing bit of the site.

• A US site, similar to artsjournal, changes every day, and features books very heavily.

• Occasionally too grumpy for us, but his opinions are very perceptive.

• A US site: this makes us laugh.

• A quirky and readable confessional blog/site by a woman called Alison May living in the North of England, featuring lots of scrumptious (her word) cookery and design/domestic living books. Nigella Lawson without the wealth/huge house/taxi habit.