Odum on Display 2025: January: Library Employee Recommendations

Book Riot is a website that covers book reviews and publishing news. They publish both articles and podcasts regularly.

Epic Reads is a website devoted to helping you find the right next book with list articles on books that touch on a wide variety of topics from feminism to the enemies to lovers trope.

Whichbook provides a way to search for books based on common plot elements or author categories. Searchers can pick from up to four sliders to search by emotional categories, or look books up by their publication origins.

Literature Map allows the reader to input an author that they enjoyed to see a map of other authors who are commonly reported as similar, with the closer names being most often cited as similar.

Shelf Awareness is the website for a daily newsletter on books and the associated industry. They have both articles dedicated to book industry professionals and readers.

This website publishes literary critique, news, and reviews of books both old and new.

This website publishes short fiction and nonfiction while also supporting aspiring authors.

The Bookshop Blog publishes blogs about the book shop industry, publishing, and writing.

Library Journal is a professional publication that publishes news and other sources important to the support of libraries and librarians. They also have a dedicated section for reviews of any information sources librarians, and readers, might want to pick up.

Goodreads allows readers to create a profile from which they can share their reading experience with others on their friends list. The user created reviews, online book clubs, and the yearly reading challenge make this website a good resource for the regular reader.

Story Graph is similar to Goodreads, but with features such as the ability to give half stars, private reading notes in addition to public ones, and built in content warning features.

Library Thing is a website that allows readers to keep a library catalog of what books they own and how they feel about them. While this makes them similar to Goodreads, they have the added ability to transition their catalog into a usable small library catalog to keep track of borrowing and other necessary things.

Litsy is a picture app for taking those cozy photos of reading your books. Sometimes you just want to be able to share that aesthetic view over the edge of your current read.

Book Crossing is a website for setting your books free and seeing where they end up. Users will place a book with a way to track it on the website and finders are asked to report where they find it before setting it free again when they are done reading it.

Book Mooch is a website that allows people to trade books on a virtual leave one take one shelf. Users first list a book they would like to send to a new home. Once the listed book is claimed that user is given a credit to request another user's listed book. Receivers are responsible only for paying shipping to their location.

This podcast hosts discussions between people in libraries and writing as well.

This podcast is hosted by New York City public librarians to discuss culture and what to read next.

Book Riot produces a wide variety of podcasts to recommend books of all different genres and themes.

This online magazine talks about audiobooks and how to find your next listen.

Librivox is a website dedicated to recording and distributing free audiobook copies of books that have fallen out of copyright. They have several titles considered dystopian from the early days of this genre available.

The Pulitzer Prize is a yearly prize given to outstanding book and journalism titles.

The Reference User Services Association is a professional organization for reference librarianship. This award is given to titles that achieved notoriety in professional reviews in the year of their nomination and were selected by the Notable Books Council for that notoriety.

The Hugo Award is an award given to a title that successfully secures the majority vote of the World Science Fiction Society membership every year.

This yearly award is voted on by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America organization. There are several awards for different formats such as novel or novelette.

This award given by the Audio Publishers Association is given to audiobooks of a great number of categories each year.

Library Reads awards are given to books that were selected by library staff across the country from the new releases they are currently reading. Each month a new list is released, making this the most informal and most often updated award on this list.

This wiki catalogues author-provided content warnings as well as allows community entries. While it may not be very big, it appears to have many YA and more recent works on the list.

This website crowd sources content warnings for tv shows, movies, and books. Their name comes from a very common content worry of viewers, whether or not the furry friend will die or be hurt in the story.

This database allows you to search by trigger, author, or title. Their content warnings are put together by a group of authors and book reviewers that is available on the website.