Allows users to search for books by characteristics of plot, theme, setting, and structure.

Offers readers an in-depth look at books popular with book discussion groups. Helpful to individual readers looking to get the most out of their reading, as well as discussion groups, Book Muse offers brief plot summaries, discussion questions, literary analysis, and author biographies.

Over 600 book reviews on a variety of topics including zoology, physics, philosophy, religion, fiction and politics.

Reader's advisory resource including bibliographies, book reviews, genre-oriented web sites, and discussion guides.

The Inland Library System provides this annotated list of reader's advisory services on the Internet.

The Reader's Robot will try to match your reading tastes with books in its database(s) and suggest books you might enjoy.

Each issue of Library Journal, since June 1995, has included a copyright-free page of librarian-contributed booktalks for adults. The titles in each column may be recent, a few years old, or much older but still available to add to collections.