Good Reads: The social website for the book lovers out there.

Goodreads is a unique social site where you share and can buy books.  It has been rumored to already be pushing well over 20 million unique visitors per month.  Where it differs from the more talked about social websites out there is the fact that it revolves around books (authors and readers out there) in one spot to review and find the next book that you will love.

Goodreads began offering e-books directly from their site and realized that their were a lot of self publishing authors out there who were looking for a place to get their work out there.  Goodreads says they have at least 35,000 self promoting, social-networking authors on their site.

They also have a way to set up online book clubs so that you can review and comment on books with other like minded people on the internet.  They have over 20,000 groups on their site including The Sword and Laser (part of the Geek & Sundry YouTube channel,) The Next Best Book Club, and many smaller hometown groups as well.

To get readers to the new books that they would enjoy, Goodreads works with an algorithm that they have made that works with ratings, your own virtual bookshelf, and what the readers similar tastes have recommended.

All in all it is a great concept and if you are one who has a hard time finding the next book to read this is a great place to start.  goodreads.com