Books and Authors
Updated March 2011.
Authors | Awards/Best Books | Book Reviews | Book Sellers
Children and Young Adult | Full Text Online | Literary Resources
Mythology | Poetry | Publishers
Authors:
- Authors on the Web
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- extensive list with links to full-text novels, poems, and short stories
- Malaspina Great Books Five Star Sites
- the sites are evaluated as pages which make effective and efficient use of authoritative WWW resources
- Shakespeare, William. Bartleby.com
Awards/Best Books:
- ALA's Notable Books
- American Library Association presents award winners and notables
- College Bound Reading List
- Lists Of Bests
- NBF | National Book Awards
- The Pulitzer Prizes
- detailed coverage of the years, 1917-current
- The Nobel Prize in Literature
Book Reviews:
- Books - The New York Times
- London Review of Books online
- New York Review of Books
- "...a monthly magazine about new books" reviews, excerpts, archives
- Welcome to BookPage!
- reviews and annotations of new books
Book Sellers:
- AddALL book search and price comparison
- The Advanced Book Exchange Home Page
- buy and sell out-of-print, used, rare, and antiquarian books
- Alibris - The Ultimate Source for OP and Rare Books
- "out-of-print, used, and rare books"
- Amazon.com Books! Earth's Biggest Bookstore.
- online bookstore, links to book reviews, search by author, title, and subject
- BarnesandNoble.com-The World's Largest Bookseller Online
- online bookstore, search by author, title, and keyword or by category, browse by subject, reviews, interviews, more
- Bas Bleu, Books and Literary Items by Post and Web
- Best Book Buys Home Page
- BookFinder.com: Search for Out of Print and Used Books
- Borders on the Web
- ISBN Search: search popular online bookstores by entering the ISBN, selecting the store, and clicking search
- Powell's Bookstore-used, new, and out of print books
Children and Young Adult:
- CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE RESOURCES
- ERIC system...links to other fine educational organizations
- Children's Literature Web Guide
- Internet resources related to books for children and young adults
- Dreamhouse: Nursery: Bookcase: Rhymes
- master list, recommended books and resources, rhymes arranged by theme
- "On - Lion" - for Kids
Full Text Online:
- Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
- Electronic Literature Directory
- Great Books Index
- Hypertexts @ The University of Virginia
- The Internet Classics Archive
- a searchable collection of Greek and Roman texts
- manybooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA
- formatted to include pdf, eReader, Palm document files and others
- The Modern English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, UVa
- online books, short stories, poems, and other documents, full-text with illustrations
- On-line Books Page
- "Listing over 1 million free books on the Web"
- Online Literature Library - An Online Library of Literature
- PROJECT GUTENBERG
Literary Resources:
- BookBrowse.com. Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover - Read it for yourself at BookBrowse. Read excerpts of bestsellers and many of the best new fiction and non-fiction titles.
- BookSpot - The best of book reviews, book stores, reading lists and more.
- "...brings top book-related sites together...in one convenient, user-friendly spot"
- Book Wire - The First Place to Look for Book Information
- author tours, Publishers Weekly highlights and bestseller lists, book reviews, links to full text books, much more
- Books & Book Collecting
- Brewer, E. Cobham. 1898. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907-21
- Columbia University: Bartleby Library
- authors, inaugural addresses, visit their collections and treasures
- Fiction Homepage
- Great Books Home Page
- explore this huge site alphabetically or chronologically
- IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection Main Page
- IRISH LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND DRAMA
- Literary Index
- collections of literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature
- Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch)
- Literary Traveler
- Mostly Fiction: a web site of recommended books and interesting links
- Mystery Net.com: Online mysteries, mystery games, mystery books
- The Mystery Reader
- Novelguide.com
- Outline of American Literature
- Outline of American Literature - America.gov
- The Romance Reader: Core Page
- SparkNotes (TheSpark.com)
- VoS - Voice of the Shuttle
- Welcome to the Oxford Text Archive
Mythology:
- The Encyclopedia Mythica
- mythology, folklore, legends, and more
- Greek Mythology
- Myths and Legends - frames
- Yahoo! Society and Culture:Mythology and Folklore
Poetry:
- The Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages
- BartlebyVerse: American & English Poetry: 1250-1920. New York: New Bartleby Library, 1999
- Representative Poetry Online
- Sonnet Central
Publishers:
- Educational Paperback Association (EPA)
- Knopf homepage
- new books, search online catalog
- Vintage Books Reading Group Guides
- teachers' guides and reading group guides to selected books
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