Ten Books I want to Read

I started by search by going to Amazon.com and since I enjoy reading mystery/suspense/thrillers novels I decided to start my search by limiting it to those types of books.

Here are the steps I took within Amazon and selection choices I made:
Ø Department: Books
Ø Category: Mystery & Thrillers
Ø Browse: Thrillers then suspense
Ø Format: Since I like reading paperbacks (they travel better than hardbacks) I selected this option
Ø New Releases: Last 90 days

Selection Criteria:

After I located 15 books I was interested in I went to LibraryThing, Google Books and GoodReads to help me select the books I wanted to put on my 10 books I want to read list.

Things I took into consideration:
Ø Review comments and ratings
Ø Descriptions provided
Ø Type of book (I eliminated anything sci-fi, paranormal or fantasy)
Ø Tags
Ø Another recommendations (see if there were other authors I read)
Ø Male or female writer (I have found that I prefer female writers)

Once I selected 8 titles from my original 15 I decided to look for 2 non-fiction books to add to my list.

Here are the steps I took within Amazon and selection choices I made:
Ø Department: Books
Ø Category: Non-Fiction
Ø Hot New Releases

Once I found four books I took the same steps as I did looking for fiction books and narrowed it down to 2.

Here is my final list, now if I can just find the time to read them!

Fiction Books:

1. Silent Scream by Karen Rose
2. Fragile by Lisa Unger
3. Drawn in Blood by Andrea Kane
4. Broken by Karin Slaughter
5. Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog? By Lisa Scottoline
6. Blood Ties by Kay Hooper
7. Dead by Midnight by Beverly Barton
8. Blown Away (Storm Front) by Sharon Sala


Non-Fiction Books:

9. Composed by Rosanne Cash
10. Scent of the missing: love and partnership with a search and rescue dog by Susannah Charleson


Critique of each resource I used:


LibraryThing:

I had never heard of this site before this class and was excited about trying it out. Right away I had difficulty finding the search button on the page however, once I was able to search for my titles it went pretty smoothly from there. I liked the feature of saving the book titles in a category called “your books” for future reference and tracking purposes. This option provides a synopsis of the books which includes, title, author, date published, tags, ratings and entry date.
Overall, a good site, but not sure I will use it in the future since it took me longer to locate the books I was looking for then the other databases.

Google Books:

I found Google Books has a visually appealing home page it is full of colored book jackets of items of numerous genres (magazines, books, cooking, computers, etc.) for browsing or selection purposes. I found the selection criteria to be user friendly and the website easy to navigate. Finding the books on my list was easy to do and was helpful in my determination requirements.
Overall, a good site liked it better than LibraryThing and it is the most visually appealing of the three.

GoodReads:

Of the three databases I liked this one the best. What I liked is that it has an easy way of tracking the books you are currently reading, ones you have read and ones to read. I also liked that once you found a book you are interested in it provided the following information beside the book jacket at the top of the page; book data, published, details, characters, setting, ISBN, and description, this information is important for me when determining whether I would like to read the book or not. I found the database easy to use and to maneuver around and I can see myself using it in the future for either looking up a book or for tracking them for my own personal use. Overall, my favorite of the three, I found it user friendly and had the most pertinent information when determining whether I want to read a book or not.