Publisher’s Weekly Best Books of the Year – 2008

Annual list compiled by the editors of Publisher’s Weekly. Titles are organized in categories – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, religion, lifestyle and children’s. Each title has a brief annotation.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6610357.html?nid=3335

Resources for Mystery Readers!

Bibliomysteries http://www.bibliomysteries.com/
are mysteries whose characters, plots and/or settings are intimately bound up with books, writers, and or libraries. Browse alphabetically or explore new bibliomysteries, juvenile books, detectives in series, authors in murder mysteries, quotations (“We are librarians, and therefore the elect of God. To read is human, to catalogue divine.”), and murder weapons (and in case you were wondering, someone HAS been fictionally murdered by compact shelving.

Mystery File: The CrimeFiction Research Journal http://www.mysteryfile.com Lots of book reviews, author profiles and mystery trivia.

The Mystery Reader http://www.themysteryreader.com Mystery Book reviews with one to five star ratings and violence ratings. Covers police/detective, thrillers, cozy’s, romantic suspense, historical and suspense. Parts of the site are not current, but the book reviews are up to date.

Stop, You’re Killing Me! http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/index.html This site is a resource for the lovers of mystery, intrigue and suspense books. Stop! Lists hundreds of authors, with complete, chronological lists of their books in this sub-genre

USA Today’s Best Seller List for the Last 15 Years

 

 USA Today is celebrating the 15th anniversary of it’s best seller list.  They have compiled a list of 150 best sellers. Take a look!  Are you surprised by some of the titles?