Links to Reading ResourcesBestseller Lists from Great BookstoresHarvard Bookstore (Boston) (this is my favorite bestseller list) Strand (Manhattan) Powell's (Portland, OR) Independent Bookstores as a group
The Best Literary BlogsBookdwarf (by an employee at the Harvard Bookstore, with links to other lit blogs) The Book Bench (sponsored by The New Yorker) Book Award WinnersBooker Prize (October - novels written in English and published in Britain) Pulitzer Prize (April - U.S. writers) (scroll down for categories: fiction, biography, etc) National Book Critics Circle Award (March - books in English) National Book Award - Fiction and Nonfiction (November - U.S. writers) IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (June - fiction in English) (scroll down for winners) PEN/Faulkner Award (March - U.S. fiction) Kirkus Prize (October - fiction and nonfiction) Orange Prize (June - novels in English by female writers) Costa (Whitbread) Award (January - fiction with wide appeal from the U.K or Ireland) James Tait Black Award (August - fiction published in the UK by a writer of any nationality) Book RecommendationsRecommendations from The Elegant Variation blog (listed in right column) Recommendations from the The Millions blog Best Books of the Year (at bottom of left column, click on "Best Books of 2008," etc) Reading Ideas from Book Groups with Tastes Similar to LAVA'sEast Side Readers (Ft. Lauderdale) The Guardian Book Club (London) The "Mostly, We Eat" Book Group (Northern New Jersey) Other Book Club MaterialReviews of Books (books reviews from major periodicals) The Life of a Booker Prize Judge Book Club Politics (an amusing story from The New York Times) Law-breakers sometimes have the choice of going to jail or joining a book club! A stunning collection of photos of beautiful libraries Rochester Area Cultural ResourcesThe Caroline Werner Gannett lecture series at RIT Three Percent "A resource for international literature at the University of Rochester" Unitarian Universalist Reading Resources |