November Early Reviewer books

The November 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 102 books this month, and a grand total of 3571 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Saturday, November 28th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to many many countries—too many to list here! Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Kensington Publishing	Dafina	Citadel Press
Bell Bridge Books	The Permanent Press	Open Letter
Penguin	Red Hen Press	Bloomsbury
W.W. Norton	Bantam	Ballantine Books
International Publishers Marketing	Human Kinetics	St. Martin's Paperbacks
St. Martin's Griffin	Weiser Books	Conari Press
Tor Books	Universalis Publishing	Doubleday Books
O'Reilly	South Dakota State Historical Society Press	HarperCollins
Bascom Hill Books	Rovira i Virgili University Press	Bethany House
Small Beer Press	Little, Brown and Company	Grand Central Publishing
St. Martin's Press	Orca Book Publishers	Picador
Pocket Books	Avon Books	Harper Paperbacks
Viking Books	Putnam Books	Random House
Henry Holt and Company	Faber and Faber

October Early Reviewer Books

The October 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 55 books this month, and a grand total of 1590 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, October 23rd at 6PM EST.


Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France, Germany, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Catalan books. A special treat this month–we have a Catalan publisher (Rovira i Virgili University Press) participating, who is offering a few books in Catalan! There are only 5 copies available for each of the books from Rovira i Virgili University Press, since they're testing the waters to see what kind of audience there will be for Catalan books.

And of course, thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Kensington Publishing	Dafina	Citadel Press
B&H Publishing Group	Bleak House Books	South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Delacorte Press	New York Review Books	New American Library
Little, Brown and Company	Barbour Books	Rovira i Virgili University Press
Self-Counsel Press	5 Spot	The Permanent Press
Hunter House	Harper Paperbacks	Avon Books
Random House	Springer	Faber and Faber
Picador	Open Letter	York House Press
Bloomsbury	Orca Book Publishers	Timber Press
Bethany House	Bell Bridge Books	Doubleday Books
HarperCollins

September Early Reviewer books

The September 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 59 books this month, and a grand total of 1310 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, September 25th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France, Germany, Denmark, European Union, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.


Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Bloomberg Press	Weiser Books	The Permanent Press
Bell Bridge Books	Tilbury House	Kensington Publishing
Dafina	Citadel Press	Bloomsbury
B&H Publishing Group	New York Review Books	St. Martin's Minotaur
Faith Words	Hachette Book Group	St. Martin's Griffin
Orca Book Publishers	Random House	BelleBooks
Picador	Gefen Publishing House	Bleak House Books
HighBridge	University of Wisconsin Press	Barbour Books
Osprey Publishing	Beach Books	Doubleday Books
Kiwi Publishing	Henry Holt and Company	How To Books
HarperCollins	Brandeis University Press	University Press of New England
Bascom Hill Books

Early Reviewers - September bonus batch

We have a small bonus batch of Early Reviewers up right now. The September bonus batch (hey, we're *almost* to September!) has only 25 copies of one book from Riverhead Books in it, but we think it's pretty fitting book for LibraryThing...

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Monday, September 7th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US only. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

August Early Reviewer Books

The August 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 64 books this month, and a grand total of 1,585 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Wednesday, August 26th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France and Germany. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Knopf Canada	HarperCollins	B&H Publishing Group
Conari Press	Weiser Books	The Permanent Press
Scribner	New American Library	Scholastic
St. Martin's Griffin	South Dakota State Historical Society Press	McBooks Press
Seren	Barbour Books	Bloomsbury
Delacorte Press	St. Martin's Minotaur	The Overlook Press
Broadway Books	Dorchester Publishing	Picador
Tilbury House	Random House	Kensington Publishing
Souls of My Sisters	Citadel Press	Dafina
Other Press	New York Review Books	Minted Prose
The Little Bookroom	Aquila Polonica	W.W. Norton
Little, Brown and Company	Candlewick	Spiegel & Grau
Chin Music Press	Henry Holt and Company	Hyperion Books

July Early Reviewer Books

The July batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 63 books this month, and a grand total of 1622 copies to give out. We've also got a new Early Reviewers feature announcement—Books you've won. More on that below.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, July 24th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada and the UK. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Books you've won: We've added an easy way to track all the books you've won from Early Reviewers. The Books you've won page lets you keep track of the books you've won, reviewed, and whether a book has actually been received. More on the feature in this blog post.

And as always, our thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Hachette Book Group	Crossway	Vintage Canada
HarperCollins	Bell Bridge Books	Workman Publishing
Conari Press	Bloomberg Press	Bantam
Random House	Henry Holt and Company	Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company
Hyperion Books	Beacon Press	The Dial Press
Orca Book Publishers	DK Publishing	Faber and Faber
St. Martin's Minotaur	St. Martin's Griffin	Pronghorn Press
Okri Books	Bloomsbury	Bethany House
Red Hen Press	Loving Healing Press	Leucrota Press
DiaMedica	ArbeitenZeit Media	The New York Literary Society
Tilbury House	Brandeis University Press	Unbridled Books

Early Reviewer Books You've Won

We've* added an easy way to keep track of all the books you've won from Early Reviewers. This new page shows you all the books you've won and whether you've written your reviews yet. You can also mark if you haven't received a book yet, so that the lack of a review won't count against you. Once your LTER book comes in the mail, you can mark it received and then add it to your library right from this page.

Books you've won

As we say in the Rules and Conditions for Early Reviewers:

You are not legally obligated to review books you receive through LTER. But subsequent LTER dispersal decisions may take your number of reviewed and unreviewed books into account. A book will be considered "reviewed" if a review is posted to LibraryThing and is comprised of at least 25 words and not obviously nonsense. Reviews may include but not solely consist of a URL.

So write those reviews!

Talk about it in this Talk thread.

Note: You're not required to actually mark whether or not you've received the book. If you've reviewed it, we're going to assume you got your copy. The received data is mainly so we can keep track of books that have gone missing in the mail.

Update: The next step is to add a similar page for Member Giveaway books. We're doing it as a separate page since the requirements are somewhat different between Early Reviewers and Member Giveaways. But the MG page will also let you see what you've won, mark books as received or not, and (importantly) remind you whether or not the member requested a review with the giveaway.


*Credit goes to Luke—thanks for building this!

June Early Reviewer Books

The June batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 68 books this month, and a grand total of 1,796 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, June 26th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France and Germany. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

And if you haven't been paying attention, we just released Collections. This is great for Early Reviewers who need to review their book but don't necessarily want to keep it in their library. Just make an Early Reviewers collection, and put the book there. That way the book (and review) stay associated with you, but you can, if you like, keep it separate from Your Library!

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Howard Books	Canongate Books	HarperCollins
Crossway	Scribner	Raven Tree Press
Touchstone	Steerforth Press	Bloomsbury
Hachette Book Group	Ecco	Demos Medical Publishing
Bantam	Open Letter	WaterBrook Press
Doubleday Canada	Bottletree Books	HighBridge
Chin Music Press	Bell Bridge Books	Henry Holt and Company
Orca Book Publishers	Delacorte Press	Workman Publishing
Bethany House	Scholastic	Masterstroke
St. Martin's Press	St. Martin's Minotaur	Ballantine Books
St. Martin's Griffin	Beaufort Books	Conari Press
Bancroft Press	The Permanent Press	Skyhorse Publishing
Phoenix Books	WEbook	Viking Books

May Bonus batch of Early Reviewer books

This month we have a special bonus batch of Early Reviewer books! The May Bonus batch includes 7 books and a grand total of 185 copies to give out.

For a special treat, Random House is giving away books from two recent Pulitzer Prize winners. Jon Meacham for American Lion and Elizabeth Strout for Olive Kitteridge.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, June 5th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This batch of books can be sentonly to members in the US. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Random House	Open Letter
Ballantine Books	Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company

April Early Reviewer Books

The April batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 43 books this month, and a total of 1,129 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, April 24th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France and Germany. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Little, Brown and Company	Crossway	MSI Press
St. Martin's Griffin	Howard Books	Hampton Roads Publishing Company
WaterBrook Press	Hachette Book Group	Algonquin Books
Picador	Other Press	Doubleday Books
The Permanent Press	Beacon Press	HarperCollins
Between the Lines	Bethany House	Chosen Books
Vanderbilt University Press	Orca Book Publishers	Litwin Books
St. Martin's Press	North Atlantic Books	McClelland & Stewart
HighBridge	Broadway Books	Riverhead Books

March Bonus Batch of Early Reviewer Books

This month we have a bonus batch of Early Reviewer books—13 different books and a grand total of 405 copies to give out.

Make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, *please* check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, April 3rd at 6PM EST.


Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and Spain. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country. Oh, and check out the Spanish language book!

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Faber and Faber	St. Martin's Griffin	Broadway Books
MSI Press	HarperCollins	The Permanent Press
Hachette Book Group	Ballantine Books	Spiegel & Grau
Random House

Authors: Free barcode scanner or tshirt for all!

I love authors. I love them so much I married one! LibraryThing has a whole host of special features to encourage authors to join, and make the most of the site.

So it comes as a surprise to hear LibraryThing called anti-author. (What we are, is against pay-for-review schemes, and authors who think LibraryThing is for posting advertisements and not engaging with anyone.)

So, we're going to prove it. Until May 1, authors willing to join up, become LibraryThing authors and add some books, get a free CueCat barcode scanner, shipped for free. If you'd rather get a t-shirt, we'll send one of those instead.

The rules:

• This applies to new members, or members with less than fifty books added today.
  
• Your LibraryThing author page has to show at least 10 members with one of your books.
  
• You have to add fifty books to qualify for the scanner.
  
• Or: If you have 100 members with one of your books or have had a book on LibraryThing Early Reviewers, we'll send you the scanner before you catalog fifty books.
  

How to do it:

1. Sign up for an account.
   
2. Send an email to Abby at info@librarything.com to become listed as an official LibraryThing author.
   
3. When you meet the rules, send Abby your address and we'll send you the CueCat and/or t-shirt.
   

More for authors on LibraryThing. There are a number of other ways authors can use LibraryThing:

• If you're interested in providing copies of your new books for LibraryThing members to review, check out Member Giveaways or have your publisher participate in Early Reviewers.
  
• If you'd like to give your fans a chance to chat with you, sign up for an Author Chat.
  
• If you have upcoming readings or events, you can add them to LibraryThing Local.
  

UPDATE: Let us catalog your library! If you are a really "big" author, a LibraryThing Flash Mob Cataloging mob will come to your house and catalog all your books for you! We won't tell anyone where you live, bother the cat or steal the silverware. You get a high-quality catalog entered by librarians and book nerds. We get the fun of cataloging an interesting library. (Yes, we think this stuff is fun.)

We tried to get this offer to Jon Updike, after doing his church, but he died soon after. (Jeremy and the Legacy Library crew REALLY hopes his library is not broken up and unrecorded, like Arthur Schlesinger, Jr's!) We've also offered to do Neil Gaiman's, so far without success. I now extend our invitation to Steven King, a fellow Mainer, and indeed close neighbor to Katya, librarian and flash-mob cataloging's "original cataloging" maven. Anyone got King's email? (Rhetorical question.)

March Early Reviewer Books

The March batch of Early Reviewer books is up! This is, by far, our largest batch of Early Reviewer books yet. We've got 72 books this month, and a grand total of 2,140 copies to give out. There's literary fiction, poetry, chick lit, Christian fiction, historical fiction, young adult books, cookbooks, mystery, memoirs, and non-fiction books ranging in topics from going green to wilderness survival to travel and adventure to self-help and more!

We also have a variety of formats this month, including a few ebooks and audiobooks. If the book on offer isn't one that you can physically hold, it's noted in the title ("audio edition") or at the beginning of the description ("this is an ebook").

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Monday, March 23rd at 6PM EST.


Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France and Germany. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Crossway	Canongate Books	Springboard Press
Picador	W.W. Norton	Santa Fe Writer's Project
Beacon Press	Penguin	B&H Publishing Group
Hachette Book Group	Grand Central Publishing	Candlewick
Ballantine Books	North Atlantic Books	Menasha Ridge Press
Clerisy Press	St. Martin's Griffin	Tyndale House Publishers
HarperCollins	Bloomberg Press	HighBridge
Bell Bridge Books	Watkins & McKay	Blue Steel Press
Bethany House	Little, Brown and Company	BookViewCafe
Howard Books	Broadway Books	Hyperion Books
Riverhead Books	Scholastic	Unbridled Books
Tor Books	New York Review Books	Melville House
DK Publishing	St. Martin's Press	The Overlook Press
Orca Book Publishers	Andrews McMeel Publishing	Random House

February Early Reviewer books

The February batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 68 books this month, and a grand total of 1760 copies to give out.

(Not enough books to choose from, you say? Check out our new Member Giveaway program as well. Member Giveaways is like Early Reviewers, but isn't limited to select publishers--any author or member can post books! We launched it last week, and currently there are 285 copies of 70 books being given away. Combined with the February batch of Early Reviewer books, that's 2045 copies of 138 different books available right now!)

First, make sure to sign up (one sign up for both Early Reviewers and Member Giveaways). If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct. Then request away!

The list of available Early Reviewer books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy from the February batch of Early Reviewers books is Wednesday, February 25th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month's batch of Early Reviewer books has publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France and Germany. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

St. Martin's Press	Candlewick	Henry Holt and Company
Tyndale House Publishers	Crossway	Bethany House
Beacon Press	Springboard Press	Doubleday Canada
Hyperion Books	Firecrest Books	PublicAffairs
Other Press	DiaMedica	HarperCollins
Faber and Faber	Harper	Bond Street Books
DK Publishing	Demos Medical Publishing	Orbit Books
Picador	Grand Central Publishing	W.W. Norton
Springer	The Permanent Press	Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Shambhala	MSI Press	Pomegranate
Atria Books	Curbstone Press	St. Martin's Minotaur
Andrews McMeel Publishing	Ballantine Books	Orca Book Publishers
Tarcher	B&H Publishing Group

January Early Reviewer bonus batch

We just posted a bonus batch of Early Reviewer books for Janurary! Spiegel & Grau are offering 100 copies each of two new books.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Wednesday, February 4th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. The books in this batch can be sent to the US only. 

January Early Reviewer Books

The January batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 38 books this month, and a grand total 670 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is the end of the month— January 31st at 6pm EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel and Italy. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

12	Bantam	Barbour Books
Candlewick	Canongate Books	Clotho Press
Doubleday Books	Doubleday Canada	Foremost Press
Gefen Publishing House	Grand Central Publishing	Henry Holt and Company
IAP	Picador	Pomegranate
Random House Canada	Shambhala	Springboard Press
St. Martin's Press	The Overlook Press	The Permanent Press
Toby Press	W.W. Norton	Weinstein Books

December Early Reviewer bonus batch

As a special holiday treat, we've got an Early Reviewers "bonus batch" for you. Unlike most bonus batches, this only includes one book, *and* it is running at the same time as the regular December batch. What that means for you is that you could potentially win two books this month, since the bonus batch 'winners' are picked separately.

The book: Random House's new Modern Library edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. It's a new complete and unabridged translation by Burton Raffel with an introduction by John Miles Foley.

NPR's “Weekend All Things Considered” did an interview with the translator, Burton Raffel, a few weeks ago, The Art of Translation, if you're interested.

Only fifteen copies are available, and only to residents of the US.

Go request it if you're interested! You have until the end of the month.

December Early Reviewer Books

The December batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 71 books this month, and a grand total 1,445 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is the end of the month— December 31st at 6pm EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to US, Canada, the UK, Australia, France, Germany, and Israel. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Andrews McMeel Publishing	Authentic	Avon Books
Ballantine Books	Bantam	Beacon Press
BelleBooks	Bethany House	Canongate Books
Center Street	Delacorte Press	Excelsior Editions (SUNY Press)
Grand Central Publishing	Hachette Book Group	HarperCollins
Henry Holt and Company	Knopf	Little, Brown and Company
Open Letter	Our Sunday Visitor	Picador
Spiegel & Grau	Springboard Press	St. Martin's Minotaur
St. Martin's Press	Steerforth Press	The Friday Project
The History Press	The Permanent Press	Tor Books
Tyndale House Publishers	UnT2	Vertical
W.W. Norton	Wattle and Daub Books

November Early Reviewer Books

The November batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 60 books this month, and a grand total 1,645 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Sunday, November 30th at 6pm EST.

Eligiblity:

Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

ABA Publishing	Algonquin Books	Ballantine Books
Beacon Press	Bethany House	Bloomberg Press
Center Street	Classical Comics	Del Rey
Delacorte Press	Delta	DK Publishing
Faber and Faber	Hachette Book Group	Harper
Henry Holt and Company	Hunter House	Knopf Canada
Laughing Gull Press	Little, Brown and Company	Lost Hills Books
Loving Healing Press	McClelland & Stewart	Modern History Press
New York Review Books	Newmarket Press	North Atlantic Books
Orca Book Publishers	Other Press	Picador
Random House	Springboard Press	St. Martin's Griffin
St. Martin's Press	Swank Books	The Overlook Press
The Permanent Press	Trumpeter Books	Viking Books
W.W. Norton	Wizards of the Coast

Early Reviewers October Bonus Batch

This month we're trying something new with our Early Reviewers bonus batch. Sourcebooks is offering up 2,500 "copies" of In the Land of Invisible Women as an electronic download. The first 2,500 people will be able to download a copy to read and review.

Read a description of the memoir on the Early Reviewers list page:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

And then you don't even have to bother clicking "request it!" Just click here to download your copy.

You have until Friday October 31st to download a copy.

The author, Dr. Qanta Ahmed will be on LibraryThing doing an Author Chat from November 10-21. Read it now, and save your questions for her!

October Early Reviewer Books

The October batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 55 books this month, and a grand total 1,670 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Sunday, October 26th at 6pm EDT.

Eligiblity:

Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, France, Germany, and Israel. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

5 Spot	Andrews McMeel Publishing	Avon Books
Ballantine Books	Bantam	Beaufort Books
BelleBooks	Canon Press	Cheops Books
Classical Comics	Delta	Demos Medical Publishing
Faith Words	Frog Books	Hammersmith Press
Hunter House	IAP	Leucrota Press
Loving Healing Press	McBooks Press	McClelland & Stewart
New York Review Books	North Atlantic Books	Other Press
Pantonne Press	Picador	PS Books
Random House Canada	Raven Tree Press	Seal Books
Sourcebooks	South Dakota State Historical Society Press	Spunky Books
St. Martin's Griffin	St. Martin's Press	Summertime Publications
YMAA

September Early Reviewer Books

The September batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 1,020 copies of 50 books available this month.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Sunday, September 30th at 6pm EDT.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to tons of new countires around the world. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month:

Algonquin Books	AMACOM Books	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Ballantine Books	Bantam	Bloomberg Press
Canon Press	Cheops Books	Clark-Nova Books
Delacorte Press	DiaMedica	Doubleday Canada
Down in the Country Press	F+W Publications	Grand Central Publishing
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Hunter House	Loving Healing Press
Marshmallow Press	McBooks Press	McClelland & Stewart
Modern History Press	Open Letter	Orbit Books
Raven Tree Press	Sourcebooks	South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Springboard Press	Spunky Books	Tarcher
Unbridled Books	University of Chicago Press	W.S. Beetle & Company
WaterBrook Press	Welcome Books

August Early Reviewer Bonus Batch

St. Martin's Press is responsible for this month's unprecedented and huge Early Reviewer bonus batch! They're giving out 1,000—yes, one thousand—copies of Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland.

The book is available to residents of the US and Canada, and the deadline to request a copy is Sunday, August 31st at 6pm EDT.

Request your copy here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

About the book: it's a brand new series featuring Elizabeth Phoenix, a cop with extraordinary psychic powers who's hot on the trail of a ruthless murderer- and whose life is about to change forever. Bestselling author Lori Handeland delivers and unforgettable heroine and a pulse-pounding series that you don't want to miss.

And, on their website, you can sign up to receive In The Beginning, the free prequel story to Any Given Doomsday.

August Early Reviewer books

The August batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 56 books this month, and a grand total 1,274 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Sunday, August 17th at 6pm EDT.

Eligiblity:
Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to tons of new countires, including the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, France, Germany, and the Philippines! Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers, new and old!

Algonquin Books	Andrews McMeel Publishing	Ballantine Books
bluechrome Publishing	Cuneiform	Delacorte Press
Delta	F+W Publications	Faber and Faber
Loving Healing Press	McBooks Press	Modern History Press
Open Letter	Other Press	Picador
PublicAffairs	Raven Tree Press	Santa Fe Writer's Project
Solaris	South Dakota State Historical Society Press	Sparklight Press
St. Martin's Griffin	St. Martin's Minotaur	St. Martin's Press
Thomas Nelson	Tor Books	Unbridled Books
University of Illnois Press	W.W. Norton	WaterBrook Press
Willow Ridge Press	YMAA

Bonus batch of Early Reviewer books

We've got three books in July's bonus batch of Early Reviewer books this month, and a total of 200 copies! Two books are from Random House (thanks as always), and one is being given away by Miramax Films (see the blog post).



So, visit the Early Reviewer page to request your copy—the deadline for requests is this Friday, July 25th at 6pm EST.

Remember, bonus batches are treated as entirely separate from the regular batch of Early Reviewer books. That means it's possible to win a book from both the regular batch *and* the bonus batch. Good luck!

More Early Reviewers books and buzz

We have two last-minute additions to July's batch of Early Reviewer books, and some scandalous book news to report.

The new books
The new additions are American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld, and Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg. So go run and request them!

The buzz
American Wife has been generating a lot of buzz lately (see Wonkette, Radar). It's a work of fiction, loosely based on Laura Bush's life. This morning, Maureen Dowd wrote about it in The New York Times, saying

"It's the sort of novel Laura Bush might curl up with in the White House solarium if it were not about Laura Bush. It would be interesting to hear how that lover of fiction feels about being the subject of fiction."

Another July Early Reviewer book, The Winds of Tara is also buzz-worthy. The Winds of Tara is the unauthorized sequel to Gone with the Wind—so unauthorized that (according to Wikipedia) copyright holders blocked US distribution of the book and bookstores had to pull it from the shelves. You'll note that it's being offered to Early Reviewers only to Australians, by an Australian publisher, Fontaine Press.

July Early Reviewers

July's huge batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 68 books this month, and a grand total 1,629 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, *please* check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, July 18th at 6pm EDT.

Eligiblity:
Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and Israel! Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers, new and old!

Andrews McMeel Publishing	B&H Publishing Group	Ballantine Books
Bantam	Bethany House	Candlewick
Delacorte Press	Fontaine Press	Frog Books
Gefen Publishing House	Harper	HarperLuxe
Hyperion Books	Leisure	Lifetime Media
Loving Healing Press	Modern History Press	New York Review Books
North Atlantic Books	Other Press	Picador
Picnic Publishing	PublicAffairs	Simon & Schuster
Solaris	Spellbinder Press	St. Martin's Griffin
St. Martin's Minotaur	Steerforth	The Dial Press
Thomas Dunne Books	Toby Press	University of Chicago Press
Vertical	Vertigo	William Morrow
Wizards of the Coast

June Early Reviewers

June's batch of Early Reviewer books is up! This month has 37 books, from 23 different publishers, with a grand total of 1,075 copies to give out.*

What is LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program? It's simple really—we're teaming with publishers to provide advance or just-published copies of books to you, in exchange for reviews. The publishers are supplying the books, you get to read and review them, and we play matchmaker! :) Check out the FAQ for more on the program.

All you have to do is sign up, and then go request the books you're interested in! You can request as many as you like, but you're only eligible to receive one per batch.

The list of books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Monday, June 16th at 6pm, EDT.

Eligibility: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, and the UK.

Thanks to all the publishers, new and old!

Andrews McMeel Publishing	B&H Publishing Group	Broadway
Candlewick	Canon Press	Canongate Books
Demos Medical Publishing	DiaMedica	Doubleday Books
Faber and Faber	Hyperion	Loving Healing Press
Marion Boyars Publishers	Menasha Ridge Press	Modern History Press
Newmarket	Other Press	Picador
Picnic Publishing	Shadow Mountain	St. Martin's Griffin
Waveland Press	Steerforth

*Tim and I spent several days last week talking to every publisher we could at BookExpo America—I'm hoping these batches of books will just get bigger and better!

May Early Reviewer books

May's batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 51 books this month, and a grand total 1,115 copies to give out.

Some of the big highlights include the new Neal Stephenson (Anathem) and The Given Day by Dennis Lehane! Or would you rather read The Inverted World by Christopher Priest? The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen? Is historical fiction more your thing? Try Hallam's War by Elisabeth Payne Rosen". In the mood for some Norman Mailer? Request a copy of Miami and the Siege of Chicago. On the nonfiction side, how about a little bit of everything, with The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2...

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, *please* check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Monday, May 19th at 6pm EDT.

Eligiblity:
Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, and for the first time, Australia! We only have one Australian publisher (I'm sure those 15 books will be coveted), but we're working on getting more for the future.

Thanks to all the publishers, new and old!

Algonquin Books	Andrews McMeel Publishing	Bantam
Berkley	Canongate Books	Clerisy Press
Cypress House	Delacorte Press	Faber and Faber
Farrar Straus Giroux	Fremantle Press	Harper
Hatherleigh Press	Hyperion	LJW Publishing
Loving Healing Press	Menasha Ridge Press	Mirrorstone
Modern History Press	North Atlantic Books	NYRB Classics
Other Press	Picador	St. Martin's Griffin
Trumpeter	Unbridled Books	W.W. Norton
William Morrow	Wizards of the Coast	Zoland Books

Bonus batch of Early Reviewer books from Random House

Random House has given us a bonus batch of Early Reviewer books this month!

There are six titles up, and a whopping total of 470 copies to give out. So go sign up (if you haven't already), and then request your copy to read and review!

The list is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Wednesday, April 30th at 6pm, EDT. These books are only available to residents of the US and Canada.*




*In another country? Don't despair. The May batch, which will be out very soon, includes books for residents of the US, Canada, and the UK and Australia!

Common Knowledge in your library

What just happened. Yesterday saw two huge announcements I'm loathe to "push down."

• We jumped from 250 to 669 sources, giving LibraryThing solid, high-quality cataloging in many new languages (e.g., Russian, Arabic, Lithuanian, Thai).
• The April Early Reviewers books went up. It's the biggest month ever, with 1,599 free books on offer--all free.

(What it didn't see was an April Fools message, although some took the 160% increase in sources for one! Does this mean we get to fool people later on this year?)

Common Knowledge in your library.



Today we've introduced our "Common Knowledge" feature directly into your catalog—allowing members to look at and edit series information, important places and the rest directly in their catalog.

To look at it, go to your catalog and choose the "edit" link to the right of the A, B, C, D, E styles. You'll see a number of CK fields as options. To edit CK fields, just double-click in the cell. A CK editing "lightbox" will pop up (see right).

Some thoughts. On one level, this is a minor feature. The data was always a click away. But I suspect it will substantially change members' relationship to Common Knowledge—and make it grow all the faster. Together with my introduction of pages for member's series, CK now "does" something.

Caveats. Right now you can't sort by CK fields, and you can't search by them. Sorting is doable, although it will take some sort. Searching is going to be harder, frankly. But it's not out of the question. Lastly, we still haven't solved CK language issues, so you may get series information in a language you don't understand.

Discuss it here.

April Early Reviewer books

April's batch of Early Reviewer books is up! This month features 66 different books from 33 different publishers, totaling 1,599 copies. It's our biggest batch ever--I know, I said that last month, but apparently we grow fast around here!

Sign up to get a free advance copy, in exchange for writing a review. If you're already signed up, make sure to check that your name and mailing address are correct (here). More help available in the Early Reviewers Frequently Asked Questions.

Then just go ahead and request books to read and review! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Tuesday, April 8th at 6pm EDT.

New and noteworthy things this round:

Audio books. We have our first audio book in this batch, (Elizabeth Berg's The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted). Love listening? Tell us, and we'll try to get more audio books included.

Author Chat. We're about to debut a new feature, Author Chat. To start, Broadway Books is giving out copies of Tell Me Where it Hurts, Nick Trout's new book about a day in the life of an animal hospital. Read it, review it, think about it. Then Nick will be on LibraryThing from April 14th through the 30th to answer questions, talk about his work, etc. More details on Author Chats to come, so stay tuned.

New Publishers. As I said, there are 33 different publishers participating this round. Thanks to all of them, and of course, thanks to the publishers that just keep giving us books!

AMACOM	Andrews McMeel Publishing	Ballantine Books
Beacon Press	Bloomberg Press	Broadway
Canongate Books	Cleis Press	Delacorte Press
Dell	DiaMedica	Egmont
Handsel Books	Lantern Books	Loving Healing Press
Manic D Press	National Geographic	North Atlantic Books
Picador	Picnic Publishing	Random House Audio Publishing Group
Random House Trade Paperbacks	Shambhala	South Dakota State Historical Society
St. Martin's Griffin	St. Martin's Minotaur	St. Martin's Press
Staghorn Press	Thomas Dunne Books	Vertical
W.W. Norton	William Morrow	Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

You'll also notice that a few of the books are already released. A few of publishers new to Early Reviewers decided to include some back-list titles as well as new ones, to kick things off. Though we generally prefer pre-publication books, we decided to allow these less "release-driven" titles into the program.


Make sure to check the flags to see whether you're eligible to receive each book. Most books are open to residents of the US and Canada, several are open to residents of the UK only. Pay attention--only the flags will tell you which is which!

Bonus batch of Early Reviewer books

I love March. It's the beginning of Spring. It's my birth month, and Tim's as well. So, of course, it's time for a bonus batch of Early Reviewer books.

Much thanks to Random House for these two books, which both look amazing.

The March bonus batch from Random House includes Salman Rushdie's new novel, The Enchantress of Florence and Joseph E. Persico's history of FDR and the women in his life, Franklin and Lucy.



Request your advance copy here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

You have until Saturday, March 22nd at 6pm EDT to request a copy.

March Early Reviewers

This is, by far, our largest batch of Early Reviewer books yet. March's batch includes 46 different books from 23 different publishers, totaling 1,172 copies, available to residents in 4 different countries! There's poetry, literary fiction, chick lit, memoirs, mystery, historical fiction, travel books, cookbooks, history, biography, humor books, and non-fiction books ranging in topics from opera to crime to global warming to the Olympics!

Sign up to get a free advance copy, in exchange for writing a review. If you're already signed up, make sure to check that your name and mailing address are correct (here). More help available in the Early Reviewers Frequently Asked Questions.

Then just go ahead and request books to read and review! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Wednesday, March 12th at noon EDT*.

Make sure to check the flags to see whether you're eligible to receive each book. Most books are open to residents of the US and Canada, several are open to residents of the UK only, US only, Canada only, or US or Israel only. Only the flags will tell you which is which!

Thanks to all 23 publishers who contributed books this round.

Algonquin Books	Andrews McMeel Publishing	Ben Yehuda Press
Bloomberg Press	Canongate Books	Collins
Crown	Demos Medical Publishing	DK Publishing
Doubleday Books	Ester Republic Press	FT Press (Pearson)
Gefen Publishing House	Kent State University Press	King Tractor Press
LJW Publishing	New York Review Books	Profile Books
Shadow Mountain	Shaye Areheart Books (Crown)	Three Rivers Press (Crown)
University of Michigan Press	William Morrow

Remember, if your favorite publisher hasn't joined Early Reviewers yet, you can write them a letter and suggest it!



*Daylight Saving Time kicks in on Sunday. If that's not a sign that warm weather is en route to us in New England, I don't know what is...

February Early Reviewers Books

February's batch of Early Reviewers books is up!

Sign up now to get free books in exchange for reviews! Once you've signed up, request any books that look interesting to you. Then just wait and see if you've won a copy to read and review. Questions? Try the FAQ or learn more in the Early Reviewers group.

The deadline to request a book is Tuesday, February 12th at noon, EST.

The list of available books is here: http://www.librarything.com/er/list

We have 29 books this month, (630 copies in total), from 14 different publishers, including a few new (and big) ones - including Collins, Small Beer Press, and The University of Michigan Press..

We even have TWO UK publishers this round—Canongate Books and The Friday Project. Books from those publishers are *only* available to residents of the UK. All other books are open to residents of the US and Canada.

Thanks to these publishers for participating, and welcome to all the new participants!

Algonquin Books AzurAlive Press Canongate Books (UK) Collins Ester Republic Press

Hobblebush Books Picador Small Beer Press Stone Pine Press

The Friday Project (UK) Thomas Nelson University of Michigan Press W.W. Norton William Morrow

Update from Tim: We've removed one book. As a blog comment pointed out, there is said to be controversy over whether the publisher has the right to publish the book. The publisher puts this front-and-center on their website, claiming the consent is "expressed, albeit obliquely, in the book itself." If the controversy is real, it's clearly in violation of copyright. If false—as I suspect—it's an irritating promotional stunt. Either way, we don't want to have anything to do with it.

Bonus Batch of Early Reviewer Books

Random House has once again given us a "bonus batch" of Early Reviewer books. Two books this time, and 230 copies in total.

• Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
• The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari

You have until Tuesday the 22nd to put your requests in:

http://www.librarything.com/er/list

If you requested a book from the big January batch, you'll find out soon if you won a book or not. Go ahead and request one of these too though, you could end up with *two* books this month!

And if free books isn't enough for you, go play with our new Series feature (see the blog post below)!

January Early Reviewers books

January's batch of Early Reviewer books is up! This month has a mix of literary fiction, fantasy, YA fiction, Christian fiction, a memoir, non-fiction, health and how-to books, and more...

Sign up to get free advance copies of books, in exchange for reviews. (Please please please make sure to include your full name and mailing address -- it speeds up getting a book to you if you win one).* More help available in the Early Reviewers Frequently Asked Questions.

Then go ahead and request books to read and review! The list of available books is here: http://www.librarything.com/er/list

This month we have 20 books (495 copies in all) from 10 different publishers:

• Algonquin Books
• B&H Publishing Group
• Bethany House
• Eirini Press
• Hunter House
• Orange Curtain Publishing
• Orbit Books
• Picador
• Shadow Mountain
William Morrow

The deadline to request books from this batch is Tuesday, January 15th at noon, EST.




*The country thing: This month we only have books that can be sent to residents of the US and Canada. I *know* there are interested reviewers in many other countries, and we're trying to find publishers willing to give out books in those countries. I know it's frustrating, but know that I haven't given up yet.

December Early Reviewer Books

This month's batch of Early Reviewer books is up! Once again, publishers give us advance copies of books, and we give them to you to read and review. Free!

First, sign up to be an Early Reviewer, if you haven't already (and make sure to include you full name and mailing address).

Then go ahead and request the books you'd like to read and review! Check out the Frequently Asked Questions for more help.

The list of available books is here: http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request copies of these books is Saturday, December 15th at noon, EST.

This month we have 24 books (455 copies in total) from the following publishers:

• Aliform Publishing
• Gefen Publishing House
• Leaping Dog Press
• Seasonally Fit Books
• Spellbinder Press
• St. Martin's Press
• Trumpeter Books
• W.W. Norton
• William Morrow

Eligibility: Most of the books are available to residents of the US and Canada. Books from Gefen are available only to residents of Israel and the continental United States. Every book has a flag (or two) beneath the "Request it!" box—check the flag to see whether you're eligible to get that book.

LibraryThing in Hebrew Because we now have an Israeli publisher in the mix, we figured it was time to introduce LibraryThing in Hebrew. So http://il.LibraryThing.com is now officially live and ready for translation. More details in this talk post.

And now, for your viewing pleasure, a mash of this month's LTER covers.

Free books: October Early Reviewer books

I'm thrilled to announce our October batch of books for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This is by far our largest batch yet—12 publishing houses, 31 different titles, for a grand total of 578 copies to give out!

Thanks to the following 12 publishers, who contributed fiction, non-fiction, poetry and even children's books:

Algonquin Books Aliform Publishing Bloomberg Press DiaMedica (RES Marketing Alliance)

DK Publishing Hunter House (RES Marketing Alliance) Knopf Nimble Books

Tatra Press William Morrow W.W. Norton Zarahemla Books

See all the books and request the ones you'd like to review here: http://www.librarything.com/er/list.

And here's a mash of all the covers:



The deadline to request one of these books is Wednesday, October 10th at noon EST.

What is Early Reviewers? How do I sign up? Where do I post my review? These questions and more are answered here, in the Early Reviewers FAQ.

There's been some talk lately on how to score a book—so for the record, the basic algorithm is randomness, but other factors come into play. For one thing, LibraryThing's matching algorithm will try to match up books with readers, based on the rest of your LibraryThing catalog. And if you complete a review—good or bad!—you're more likely to get another. Finally, getting a free advanced readers copy comes with NO obligation. Under no circumstances will a bad review change your chance of getting another. More on this in the Rules and Conditions.