Reader's Advisory: Reading For Fun!: Read-alikes

'Based on the Book' is a compilation of over 1,250 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures.

offers readers informed book reviews in a variety of genres, interviews with authors, and reader polls.

is a fun way to get Amazon recommendations with a simple interface.

Suggester:LibraryThing analyzes the more than fifty million books and sixty-five million tags LibraryThing members have added, and comes back with reading suggestions.
UnSuggester: Turns suggestion on its head! Uses LibraryThing library users' libraries to suggest books that you will not like based on what you have read and liked.

From the Kent District Library: Our What's Next®: Books in Series database
helps you search series fiction. A series is two or more books linked by character(s),
settings, or other common traits,
e.g. Sue Grafton's "A is for Alibi", "B is for..." etc. or the "Star Wars" series.

enter a book title and immediately get a list of similar books.

Allows you to search by emotion, setting, character, plot, etc.

WorldCat Genres allows you to browse dozens of fiction genres for hundreds of titles, authors, subjects, characters, locations, and more, ranked by popularity in the world's libraries.
Also includes award winner lists by genre.