We list ten websites that will give you suggestions for books to read based on various criteria, such as your favourite author and series.
Reading has many benefits. As well as the obvious ones, such as learning to read faster and acquiring new vocabulary, it has been proven that it can slow the processes of degenerative brain diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s. Reading also reduces the stress you feel, as it allows us to lose yourself in a world of imagination for a while and forget about the problems you face in real life.
Reading helps you have a better memory and greater analytical ability, both of which are necessary for remembering all the characters in a book and their respective personalities and characteristics, as well as for solving the mystery before you reach the end. All this work performed by the brain will increase your powers of concentration, which you can use to your advantage if you want to be more productive in your daily life.
For all the above reasons, reading is one of the best activities and hobbies you can choose. The problem comes when you are going to choose your next book. How to choose from so many options? The following websites will help you do just that.
- TasteKid
Imagine you’ve just finished reading Carrie by Stephen King, you loved it and you would like to read a similar book but by another author. You can go to TasteKid and type the word “Carrie” into the search engine and it will provide you with similar results by the same author (if there are any) and by other authors you might like. This website also allows you to search for similar results for films, music, games and TV programmes.
- TrackNewBook
If you want to hear about new books which are published you can use TrackNewBook to do so. On this website you can create an alert related to a subject, a keyword, an author or a list of Amazon’s best-sellers in the United States. You just need to enter your e-mail address and decide if you want to receive alerts whenever new books become available or on a weekly or monthly basis.
- Any New Books
If you like reading about a specific topic or genre, Any New Books is the website for you. You just have to enter your e-mail address, select the genres which interest you and wait for an e-mail every week telling you what’s new to read.
- Product Hunt Books Digest
Product Hunt is a website which recommends new products, including games, technology and podcasts. Of course, they also have a section for books where you can enter your e-mail address to receive a message every day listing new books to read. You can have a look at the books suggested every day.
- MisLibrosPreferidos
This is the first website in Spanish on the list; you can see the most popular books in the community, as well as have a look at the new titles and the books about to come out. The best thing about MisLibrosPreferidos is that all the books have a link to Amazon España, so you won’t have to look for a version in Spanish because it will be already be on sale.
- FictFact
For fans of series, of whom there are many due to the current fashion of book trilogies, FictFact is the best choice. This website helps you keep track of all the book series you want to read and all you have to do is sign up as a member, look for the series which interest you and start making a list of books to read.
- IFTTT
IFTTT is an amazing website where you can automate hundreds of things. If you are interested in the best-selling list of the New York Times, you can easily keep up with it using IFTTT. You just have to use this recipe which will update the list of best-selling books in a note on your Evernote account.
- Goodreads
Goodreads is a social network for people who love reading. All the discussion here is about books and you can spend hours looking at what’s new, series and which authors have recently published. The best feature of this website is that the users themselves share their opinions of the books they have read, so when you come across one which catches your eye, you can assess it with the reviews that others have left. If you are interested in Spanish content you can follow this tag, join this group for books in Spanish and view the most popular ones in the language.
- Amazon España
Here you will find a list of the best-selling books in Spanish, which you can check by genre in over 30 available categories. If you have a Kindle you’ll find enough to fill it here.
- What Should I Read Next
What Should I Read Next is a website with the sole purpose of giving you suggestions and recommendations for reading. Just write in the name of a book or an author that you liked and it will suggest something new to read.
