BookSense.com
Shop online at your favorite independent bookstore.
BookWire
Online portal into the book industry. Provides articles
on the latest industry news, access to literary
journals and reviews, and a directory of book sites
around the world. Users can also search updated
bestseller lists, find listings of literary events,
and read author interviews.
Internet
Public Library: Literary Criticism
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical
and biographical websites about authors and their
works that can be browsed by author, by title, or
by nationality and literary period.
Inter-Play
"Inter-Play is an index to plays in collections,
anthologies, and periodicals. It presently contains
more than 17,500 citations to plays in many languages."
Lit Lovers
A resource for book clubs, and those with literary interests.
The
Modern Library "100 Best"
The best 20th century nonfiction and fiction published
in the English language, as voted on by Modern Library
readers.
National
Book Awards
The awards are given annually in the categories
of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's
literature.
New York
Center for Books and Reading
An affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for
the Book. Promotes books, literacy, book arts, publishing
history, and reading in New York State.
Reading
Group Guides
Interviews, advice and ideas for your reading group,
and hundreds of reading group guides.
SparkNotes:
English
Study guides for English and American literature,
Shakespeare, poetry, and drama.
USA
Today Best-Selling Books Database
A searchable archive of USA Today's Best-Selling
Books list containing the top 150 books from each
week from October 28, 1993, when the list began.
Readers can search the archives by author, title
or a specific week.
BookBrowse.com
Read excerpts of bestselling books and many of the best new fiction and non-fiction
titles. Plus author bios, interviews, reading guides, and more.
BookPage
BookPage is a reader's guide to selecting the best in new books. Monthly features
include interviews with favorite authors, book news, and book reviews in all
categories.
BookReporter.com
A site dedicated to book lovers and writers. Author interviews, book reviews,
and reading group guides can be found here.
BookSpot
Links to book-related content on the Web, including bestseller lists, book
awards and reviews, electronic texts, online booksellers, antique books, author
and publisher information, literary criticism, book news and events, and more.
Genrefluent
Genre and young adult fiction reviews.
NPR Books
National Public Radio's suggested reading, author inverviews and recent releases.
Overbooked
A website for readers. Specializing in literary and genre fiction information.
Reader's Robot
The Reader's Robot wil try to match your reading tastes with books in its
database and suggest books you might enjoy.
What's Next
Find out what books are in a series. This database, maintained by the Kent District Library in Michigan, lets you search by author, title, or genre.
Stop, You're Killing Me!
Lists hundreds of authors of mystery novels, with complete, chronological
lists of their books. Books are also indexed by series character name, and
other attributes (character job, location, historical period, etc.).
The Academy of American Poets
Poems, biographies of more than 450 poets, historical and thematic poetry
exhibits, and much more.
American Verse Project
An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
Gale
Poet's Corner
Biographies of many famous poets and line-by-line explanations of some of
their works.
Library of Congress Poetry page
Current events, links to the Poet Laureate and information about Library of Congress poetry collections (video, print, audio and electronic).
Poetry Foundation, Publisher of Poetry Magazine
Read news and poems, search poet and poem archives, and check current bestseller lists. Has daily podcasts of readings.
Poets' Corner
An online collection of poetry, with thousands of works from hundreds of poets.
Works range from medieval times to the early 20th century.
