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BookPrizeInfo
Search by title or by prize.
The Book Group List
Suggested reading lists for book discussion groups from an online book
discussion group.
Book Muse.com
Suggested books, notes, discussions for book groups.
Love
to Read. Finding Books and Book Clubs
Internet Public Library pathfinder and links to books and book clubs.
ReadingGroupGuides.com
Reading group guides, discussion, questions, advice and ideas.
Table Talk
Online book discussions and reading group booklists, fiction and non fiction
from Salon.com.
Amazon.com
Books
Search one million titles with book summaries and/or excerpts.
Book Browser
Search or browse by subject, booksellers, staff
picks. Part of Barnes & Noble.com
The Booklist Center
“The web’s largest selection of booklists…prepared by authorities in dozens of
fields”
Book Page
A monthly collection
of general interest book reviews.
Book
Spot
“Featured sites…selected and organized into intuitive categories” such as
bestsellers, genres, awards, reviews.
Genrefluent
Brief reviews of books by genre. Features items for teens.
LibraryThing
Create an account and make your own catalog of books you own or have read. Share
book reviews and ratings with others, get reading recommendations from
like-minded readers, or talk to other book lovers on this social book site.
Overbooked
“Specializes in literary and genre fiction information” A resource for ravenous
readers, maintained by volunteers. Links to reviews, reading lists, awards and
prizes.
Alibris.com
“Comprehensive source of new, used, and hard- to- find books, music, and
movies."
Abebooks.com
“Online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of -print books”
Amazon.com
Search the largest bookseller online for rare and used books.
Book Finder.com
Free one-stop book search site to the collections of over 50,000 online book
sellers.
Great Lakes Books.com
“Specialize in previously read juvenile books”
Independent Bookstores in Illinois
Listing of bookstores.
Powell's Books
Web site of large independent bookstore which began in Chicago. In-print and
out-of-print books. Includes author interviews and staff picks.
Citing
Sources
Duke University online guide to citations from four of the best known style
manuals.
Online Writing Lab
Purdue University writing lab information on citations, grammar, spelling, etc.
A.K.A.
“Author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, etc.”
Gale
Literary Index
Search for works indexed in Gale’s literary criticism series.
Illinois Authors
Illinois State Library authors links.
Illinois! Illinois!
A 2233 item annotated bibliography of fiction about Illinois.
Internet Public
Library Literary Criticism Collection
Links to critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.
Interplay
An online index to over 18.000 entries for plays in collections, anthologies,
and periodicals from Portland State University Library. Search by author or
title.
Literary Resources on the Net
Collection of links to sites on the Internet, especially American and English
literature.
Mr. William
Shakespeare and the Internet
Complete annotated guide to Shakespeare resources available on the Internet,
including timeline, biography, works, and criticism.
Short Stories at the East of the
Web
Online stories. Search by author, title, or keyword, or browse by category.
Bartelby.com
“Great books online” Searchable source for free online books.
Internet Public Library Online
Texts
Links to recommended resources for online texts, including books, poetry,
stories, and magazines.
Online Books Page
Free searchable website for over 18,000 listings, fiction and non fiction.
Project Gutenberg
“The Internet’s oldest producer of free electronic books” Free and searchable
website for texts, primarily published prior to 1923.
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