To benefit from the depth and breadth of Goodreads, the world's largest site of reader and book recommendations, users will need to register for a free account. However, for Scout readers not ready to participate on that level, this list of "100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books set on or about Mars" can still provide a compass to navigate the great ocean of Mars-related fiction in the canon. Here...

Amy Brady composed this list for Chicago Review of Books in November 2019. Though the list was compiled for Native American Heritage Month (celebrated each November), Brady opens by acknowledging that "reading work by Indigenous authors should be something we do all year long." As readers continue to curl up at home during the pandemic (and through a cold winter, depending on location), now is the...

Bibliophiles and historians may be interested in Annotated Books Online (ABO), "a virtual research environment for scholars and students interested in historical reading practices." Visitors to this project will find a database of more than one hundred scanned early modern texts dating from the late 1400s to the late 1600s, which may be searched by keyword, title, author, language, and a variety...

Banned Books Week for 2015 is celebrated September 27 - October 3, but in addition to the time sensitive events at this site from the American Library Association (ALA), there are plenty of year-round resources. The ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) collects data from U.S. libraries, schools, and the news media on books that have been challenged in some way and uses this information to...

From writer, community organizer, and educator Hoda Katebi, Because We've Read is an international book club and digital library focused on raising awareness and understanding of issues in global politics, race, gender, colonialism, religion, and more. Activists, humanitarians, and philologists, as well as those seeking to broaden their worldview, will enjoy this collection, which uplifts and...

Online since 1999, this reading motivation program and resource center is designed and maintained by the Sylvan Learning Foundation. Designed for students in grades kindergarten through nine, the site allows young people to create their own book lists and take multiple-choice quizzes on the books they've read as well. The site is hosted by the colorful animated duo of Rex Reader (a rather...

Perhaps one of the defining features of Book Riot, the online book review site, is its indifference to the distinctions between "highbrow" and "lowbrow." Here book lovers will find intricate perlustrations of 19th century French dramatists next to peppy lineups of the best summer beach reads. Genres covered include Children's, Classics, Feminism, Poetry, and over a dozen others. With more than 20...

To some, the very phrase “Book TV” might seem to be anathema, potentially even heretical or at the very least distasteful. Regardless, the past few decades have witnessed a détente between these two seemingly contradictory, and potentially even combative, forms of mass media, and C-SPAN 2 has done a fine job of bringing noted authors to this program to talk about their recent printed endeavors. On...

For over 25 years, Michael Silverblatt has hosted Bookworm, a weekly half-hour interview with authors broadcasted by KCRW Public Radio out of Santa Monica, California. On the station's website, book fans can listen to the complete archives of this show. Silverblatt has interviewed with luminaries of all genres, including novelists Jamaica Kincaid, Salmon Rushdie, and Louise Erdrich; graphic...

Parents, caregivers, and educators looking to foster a love of reading in young people may want to check out Brightly. Launched in 2015, Brightly aims to provide resources to help adults "raise kids who love to read," and also "to keep kids connected to books through every age and stage of life." Visitors have several options for exploring the site's content beyond the most recent articles on its...