Shelfari was the first social media site focused on books. Members of Shelfari can share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers. In shelfari you can build virtual book shelves, so that you can read, share and express to the world.

You can sign up and do the things for free. Shelfari members can build virtual book shelves, Discover existing books, Influence peers by rating and discussing books online, Discover and learn about books with people having similar reading, Interact with authors of some books.

This three year old site has book full of members and chapter full of groups. You can build a widget for your blog or web site. You can explore books by day, week, month and all time. Search for friends with name, city, email etc to catch the people having similar tastes. You can search thousands of groups to  discover books and people. Create group of your own interest.

Connect with your friends on Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and AOL directly from shelfari.

You can check my Shelfari profile and book shelf here.