Internet Resources - Literature
Online Bookstores
- 1stBooks Library - Download hundreds of virtual books, many free, directly to your computer
- A1Books
- AddALL book search and price comparison
- Amazon.com
Search the Amazon.com Catalog. The site also includes book awards, reviews, and a personal
new book listing service.
- Search by Author, Title, Subject, ISBN, or Publisher
- Barnes and Noble
- Bibliofind Search, books, Booksearch, Antiquarian Books, Old Books, Used Books, Rare Books, bookselling, bookseller
- BookSearch
- BookZone - Sell Books, Find Book Resources, Buy Books
- Independent Bookstore - The NewPages Guide
- Internet Book Shop
- ISBN.NU: Search for Books & Compare Prices
- Powell's Bookstore-used, new, and out-of-print books
- The William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore
Literary Resources
- ALA Book Awards winners and Notable winners
- All About Romance - The Back Fence for Lovers of Romance Novels
- AllReaders.com
- Arts & Humanities - Omaha Public Library
- Bartleby.com
- Based on the Book - MCPL
- Bestseller Lists 1900-1995
- Bibliomania - Free Online Literature and Study Guides
- The Blind Readers' Page
- Book-A-Minute Classics
- Book Reviews - NewPages Guide to Review Sources Online
- BookBrowser
BookBrowser is a collection of fiction reading lists. We made BookBrowser to help
avid fiction readers find books and authors. We arrange our lists by genre, location,
series and anything else we can come up with.
- Author Pseudonyms
- Book Clique Cafe, A Reading Community/www.readinggroupsonline.com
- Booklist
- Booklists for Adults - Boston Public Library
- Booklists for Kids - Boston Public Library
- Booklists for Teens - Boston Public Library
- BookPage
- Books Made Into Movies
- BookSpot
- Book Discussion Center - BookSpot.com
- Book TV.org
- Books@Random | Reader Resources
- BookWire
A comprehensive guide to book resources. Includes author tour information, updates of Publishers
Weekly bestseller lists each Thursday (4 days before they appear in print), book
awards, The Boston Book Review, The Hungry Mind Review, The Quarterly
Black Review of Books, book-related cartoons, and much more.
- British and Irish Authors on the Web
- Bulfinch's Mythology - Home Page and Table of Contents
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- Children's Literature Web Guide
Internet Resources Related to Books for Children and Young Adults."
- Classic Bookshelf - Free electronic books to read online
- ClassicReader.com - Read, search and annotate classic literature.
- eBookNet.com: eBook News and Community
- eclectics.com
- Electronic Literature Directory
- Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia Library
- E-Book Library at the Ele
- Favorite Teenage Angstbooks
- First Chapter Excerpts - Sneak previews of recent releases from USA Today
- First Lines
- Full-Text American Literature Online-University of Virginia
- Full-Text Books Online
- Full-Text Classics: Find and Download Books - LibrarySpot.com Feature
- Gale's Literary Index Online
- Genrefluent
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Greek Mythology
- A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
- Eliot, Charles
W., ed. The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1909–1917
"The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the
50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction.
Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and
historical subject through the twentieth century."
- iLoveLanguages
- Internet Book Information Center
- The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature
- Iowa: The Literary Landscape in Fiction
- Jane Austen Information Page
- Library Journal | Best Books & Reference
- Library Journal | Book Reviews
- Literary Periodicals - NewPages Guide to Literary Periodicals
- Literary Resources on the Net
- The Litrix Reading Room
- Locus Online: News, Reviews, Resources, and Perspectives of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
- Los Angeles: Calendar Live! Books & Talks
- The Mississippi Writers Page
- The Modern Library: 100 Best
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- MysteryNet.com: The Online Mystery Network for everyone who enjoys a mystery
- The Mystery Reader
- netLibrary - Main Library
- New Pages Resource Links
- New York Review of Books
- The New York Times: Books
- The New York Times Books
- Notable Books List for 2001 announced
- Novelists, Inc.
- NPR - All Things Considered's Annual Book Review
- NPR - Morning Edition - Booksellers' Reading Choices
- The On-Line Books Page
Look here for an index of over 1500 on-line books, and for common repositories of
on-line books and other documents.
- Overbooked
A web site (formerly known as Book Links) for ravenous readers.
Overbooked specializes in literary and genre fiction information.
- PinkMonkey - Includes literature summaries)
- Publishers Weekly
- The Pulitzer Prizes
- Random House Library Services
- Ransom Center: The WATCH File: Writers, Artists and Their Copyright Holders
- Readers' Advisory WWW sites
- Readers' Services (from the Rochester Hills Public Library)
Browse for book reviews, author interviews, literary awards, mystery, romance,
science fiction, fantasy, horror, lists of books.
- Readers' Services Selections - Des Plaines Public Library
- TheReadersVine
- The Romance Reader
- Salon Magazine | Sneak Peeks By Author's Last Name: A-E
- SF Gate: Books
- The SF Site: The Home Page for Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Sherlock Holmes on the Web: the Sherlockian.Net Holmepage
- SimonSays.com: Reading Groups
- SparkNotes - Online study guides with summaries of works of English and American literature, presented as an alternative to Cliff Notes (tm))
- Stop, You're Killing Me! A site to die for ... if you love mystery books!
- The Thrilling Detective Web Site
- Thunder Bay Public Library Reader's Advisory
- Timeless Classics
- USATODAY.com - Books
- VLib-AAC Anglistik Guide
Anglistik Guide is an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant
information in Anglo-American language and literature. The guide is located and maintained
at the SUB Göttingen.")
- The Walt Whitman Archive
- Western Writers of America
- What's Next Database -
Helps you search adult fiction in series. A "series" is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits.
- Wired for Books - Author interviews available on RealAudio
- Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's
bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 1932 texts included (1731
unedited, 201 fully edited and encoded) by 945 authors. The Wright American Fiction
online collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851
to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose
works may have been very popular in their own time.
- Writers of Historical Fiction
- Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders
- WritersNet: The Internet Directory of Published Writers
Publishers
Old & Rare Books and Prices
Poetry
Bible Concordances & Religion Study Aids
Mystery
Science Fiction
