Listopia on Goodreads.com

In my last post, I mentioned that you can use the book lists on Goodreads.com to help you find the next book to read.  After some more exploring, I'm even more obsessed with Goodreads and the book lists provided by Listopia.  I spent several hours yesterday exploring the lists and came up with a long list of my own of books I need to read soon.  In the process, I discovered that you can vote for your favorite books to be added to and moved up on different lists and consequently wasted even more time. 

But the point of this post is to share some of the most useful lists I found.  By browsing by tags (on the right hand column), I found pages and pages of lists dedicated to the best young adult books, the most popular of which being Best Young Adult Books.  The lists are divided by genre, subject, year, etc., and are extremely user friendly for teachers and students alike.  One list in particular students might enjoy is YA Novels by Goodreads Authors.  A Goodreads author is one who is an active participant on Goodreads.com.  Authors can blog on their pages; embed videos, pictures, and other media; and link to their personal websites and blogs.  I think students will appreciate the accessiblity to their favorite authors that Goodreads provides, and the list can help them find more books to read if this accessibility is important to them.  I greatly look forward to sharing Goodreads with my future students.

Some other lists that kept me occupied yesterday for longer than I would have liked, but I just couldn't quit:
Best Books of the Decades: 2000's
Books That Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Best Books of the 20th Century

Enjoy!