Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Book Websites and Blogs

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we're highlighting some of our favorite bookish places on the internet! I've split my list into half websites, half blogs. I follow a few dozen book blogs, all of which I really enjoy (or else I wouldn't follow them), but the ones I've listed are the ones I tend to pull recommendations from most often because my personal reading taste falls most in line with theirs.



Goodreads: There are certainly flaws to it, but I love keeping track of what I'm reading, seeing what other people whose opinions matter to me are reading and loving (or not!), and being able to create tons of shelves to keep things organized. People who have beef with it because it allows the plebes to have opinions about books that they can share widely (which I've seen a bit of lately) can step off with their gatekeeping nonsense.

LibraryThing: This is a great book cataloging site if you use it that way, though the interface hasn't really done it for me. It's also a great source of information about the books you read (it's where I pull the lists/awards section of my posts from!).

Libib: My preferred way to catalog my physical library. Super easy to use and tag your collections!

Thriftbooks: This is where I get nearly all of my books, because the prices are amazing and I've been able to get my hands on things I would have had to spend ages digging for at local thrift/secondhand stores. I have embedded a referral link for this one, so avoid clicking on it if you don't want to do that (you'll get 15% off your first order if you do, though).

Book Riot: SO much bookish content every day! I do scroll through a significant number of posts without reading them, but it feels like at least once a day I find myself adding something to my TBR because of a recommendation or list they post!


Sarah's Book Shelves: Sarah is like my book blogger role model! Great recommendations and lists, and when she reviews books she does such a great job of hitting the highlights and giving a sense of whether or not it would be something you're into. Our reading taste has significant overlap (lots of "literary fiction", with occasional forays into other genres) and I always appreciate hearing what she thinks!

Read All The Things!: I post at the most three times a week, but usually two, because that's about as much as I have creativity for. AJ, though, posts several times a week with interesting content and a great sense of humor. She's also primarily focused on literary fiction with a lot of backlist, so we read similar things.

So Obsessed With: Hannah reads more YA than I do, but she reads adult fiction regularly as well. Her voice is great, peppy and fun but not sugary sweet. What makes her blog go-to reading for me is that I appreciate the way she ventures outside the strictly bookish to post some lifestyle-type content that I enjoy reading because her voice is so relatable!

Sophisticated Dorkiness: Kim sometimes posts more and sometimes less, but it's always worth waiting for! Her reading mix is literary fiction, with a decent amount of backlist, and one of the few bloggers I follow who reads non-memoir nonfiction fairly regularly so she's a great source for recommendations for me in my favorite genres!

Broke By Books: A second Sarah on my list! This Sarah doesn't post much in the way of straightforward reviews, but she posts lists I don't see elsewhere and some really interesting discussion-type posts. She doesn't post super-frequently, but when she does I always look forward to it because her perspective is different than a lot of what's out there.

20 comments:

  1. Goodreads made my post this week too!!

    Here's a link to my TTT post this week: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2018/08/top-ten-tuesday-favorite-book.html

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    1. I love being able to organize everything I've read and want to read on there!

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  2. Goodreads will never cease to amaze me as I love spending time on it! Aj of Read AL The Things has the most hilarious posts, I love her blogging voice. And definitely some new blogs for me to check out too, so thanks for the recs!

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    1. I don't know how AJ keeps up the sense of humor even though she posts so often! Twice a week is about all I can do without quality fall off. And the only problem with Goodreads is the longer I'm on there, the more books I add to my shelves!

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  3. Thank you so much for including me!! I'm honored!

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    1. I love your blog so much! And your raves (the good kind, not the bonkers kind) about Lords of Discipline spurred me to read it and now I recommend it all the time!

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  4. Checking out some of those blogs now! I love LibraryThing to catalog my books! I found it so easy and convenient.

    Top Ten Tuesday

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    1. There's so much useful info about books on LibraryThing!

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  5. I love that so many on your list are new to me (the bloggers, I mean). I used to use Goodreads a lot more than I do now. I will admit I have been getting lazy putting my reviews up there. But I have met quite a few bookish people, like myself, through the site. Great list!

    Megan - Ginger Mom and the Kindle Quest

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    1. Cross-posting reviews to Amazon and Goodreads should be such a little thing, but it can turn into such a pain!! But getting to follow what my friends and fellow book nerds are reading is great!

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  6. Thank you so much for featuring Broke by Books, Gabby! Your blog is awesome, and I love how you include such an interesting variety of books. Looking forward to following along! :)

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    1. Thank you! I like reading a little bit of everything, there's great stuff in all genres :)

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  7. Fun list! I'm checking most of them out now, but I already adore Thriftbooks, haha.

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    1. It should be hard to spend a lot of money there since the books are so affordable, but I manage it anyways!

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  8. Oh gosh! I didn't know about Libib -- that is my exact dream! The other cataloging sites I've tried always had low limits for the amount you could add free, and I'd given up on anyone ever making one I could use. Thank you!

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  9. I tried Library Thing, but I never really could get into it. Glad I found Goodreads, though. :)

    Check out my TTT and celebrate my blogoversary with a giveaway

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    1. Goodreads is fantastic! I use LibraryThing mostly as an informational resource, it never quite worked for cataloging for me

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  10. Thanks for giving my blog a shout-out! Sarah’s Book Shelves is one of the blogs I visit often. Sarah reads the books I wish I was reading.

    Aj @ Read All The Things!

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    1. Seeing praise from you or Sarah definitely lands a book on my list, you've both introduced me to books I wouldn't have found otherwise!

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