Last Wednesday I shared great sites for writing prompts for aspiring authors so this Wednesday I wanted to provide a quick list for readers. The following are a few websites very well known and respected for giving away books to lucky winners. This is far from a comprehensive list (and really doesn't include bloggers) but it's a quick start.

Let's begin with one I adore! Every week a new book and a different author is spotlighted on the popular Free Book Friday website. New books show up on the website on Saturday and winners use a Raffle Copter to enter, the winner being selected on the Friday immediately following. FreeBookFriday.com includes exclusive interviews and other cool things for readers and if you're a blogger, this is a great spot to jump in and check out some books and authors you might want to do a Waiting-on-Wednesday post about, or maybe interview!

FreeBookFriday.com has grown tremendously since its start several years ago and now includes different subsites for teens/YA (TEENS), the fiction subsite
(FICTION), the non-fiction option(Non-FICTION), and one for indie novels (INDIE). Usually there are multiple copies offered up of each novel so there are multiple winners of each genre. So every week readers have great chances to win terrific new books!

Another respected site created by great people where you can win novels on is Fresh Fiction. The site's full of great stuff about fiction authors and there are blogs and columns and reviews. They list the month's contests in a handy format and you can click through the links to learn more. FRESH FICTION

Bitten by Books is a cool site with book reviews, author interviews and contests that focuses on paranormal/fantasy fiction and lists a link under "Great Events This Week at Bitten by Books" that includes book giveaways and other author-related contests for all sorts of great things. Check out BITTEN BY BOOKS!

Two other sites that regularly give away novels of many genres to readers who enter to win--the idea being that readers will read and objectively and maturely review the books they receive. You must have a free membership with them, but the perks are cool--these (especially Goodreads) are all about community, connection, and participation.

These sites include:
GOOD READS
LIBRARY THING

So get on out there, read, enter, win, and get to read some more! :) Good luck!