On-Line Literary Resources

• Addison Public Library Good resources..see the readers' corner.
• Alibris - Books you thought you'd never find. Shop the inventory of thousands of booksellers from one secure and reliable source. Find a book and we'll retrieve it, whether it's from a tiny Alaskan bookshop, or plucked from our own shelves.
• Alexandria Digital Literature Home Page Do come in and meet the site, and our Librarian, who would love to recommend some nice fiction for you. Rate the books you have read and we will recommend others for you.
• AnyBook International AnyBook International is a complete book service designed to offer you global access to Any book published in the United States, in-print or out-of-print, shipped worldwide. AnyBook International is more than a bookstore, we are designed to be your complete book source, specifically tailored to your individual reading and researching needs.
• Association of Book Group Readers and Leaders
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Books Reviews, tips for book clubs and archives.
• Atlantic Unbound - Books From the Atlantic Monthly: book reviews, interviews, and more.
• Bibliofind Seven million old, used and rare books offered here for sale by three thousand booksellers around the world make this the largest and possibly the most interesting bookselling site on the Web
• Bold Type An online literary magazine from Random House.
• BookBrowser: The Guide for Avid Readers. BookBrowser is a site dedicated to reading. We offer fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles, author information and much more. We made BookBrowser to help avid fiction readers and authors find each other.
• BookBrowse.com. Read excerpts of bestsellers and many of the best new fiction and non-fiction titles.
• Book Bytes As a regular reviewer for Library Journal I have to put quick little labels on books--this is terrific, this is drecchh, buy this, don't buy this, all in 125 words or less, which is nowhere near enough space to tell people about really wonderful books. So here are some columns I've written about books I know and love, books that have entertained me, delighted me, scared me, made me think, and shown me how, in an ideal world people, treat each other.
• Book Fairs and Other Literary Events
• Booklist For more than 90 years, Booklist has been the librarian's leading choice for reviews of the latest books and (more recently) electronic media. Every year we review nearly 4,000 books for adults, more than 2,500 titles for children, more than 500 reference books and electronic reference tools, and 1,000 other audiovisual materials. We also publish a wide variety of feature articles including author interviews, bibliographies, book-related essays by well-known  writers, and a selection of columns.
• BookMuse/ book reviews and resources for book discussion groups
• Booknotes: A Cyber CompanionAmerica's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas. Pick a featured author.
• BOOKREPORTER.COM Ever craved a good book and just not been inspired by anything you see? Or felt annoyed that you bought a book that was merely so-so? Or closed a book and JUST wanted to talk about it? Guess what? We know what this feels like. Bookreporter.com can solve these reader dilemmas --- and every other bookish nightmare you might dream up. Bookreporter.com not only has the best books, it has compelling features that explain why these books matter. And insight into the authors who make them worth reading. Because when you are a real reader --- reading is something you are passionate about.
• Book - The Magazine for the Reading Life Author interviews
• Book Reviews Cora's Book Boutique
• Booktalk Welcome to the Publishing insider's page where you'll find out who's hot and what's up. We've got the Buzz, the Chatter, the Rumble. We know the Scene. And you've clicked to the right place.
• BookWire - The First Place to Look for Book Information With detailed information on thousands of titles, authors, and publishers, and thousands of annotated and intelligently organized links to book-related sites around the world, BookWire is the web's most comprehensive and thorough guide to book information.
• Boston Book ReviewThe Boston Book Review seeks out and promotes the highest achievements in contemporary writing. Bringing readers into the ongoing project of literary life, the BBR features incisive, independent comment from preeminent writers, scholars and intellectuals on today's most important books.
• Boston Globe Online / Living | Arts / Book Reviews
• Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books Brightleaf will combine the best elements of The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Publishers Weekly—with a Southern focus.
• Books Contents From Weekly Wire. Books Now What? Tired of reading, reading, reading all the time about books? Of course not. Bookworms never tire, though they occasionally find themselves hooked. This "Now What?" page is designed to provide enough literary resources to keep you hooked for a very long time.
• Book Recommendations and Book Ratings The Readers Forum is an interactive service that provides book recommendations for its users.
• BookSpot - The best of book reviews, book stores, reading lists and more.
• BOOK TV.ORG Our goal is to be your main source of nonfiction book information on the web and to complement Book TV, our weekend programming on C-SPAN2. Each weekend, Book TV on C-SPAN2 will feature 48 hours of nonfiction books from 8am Saturday to 8am Monday. This web site will enhance information on those books, provide an opportunity to watch or listen to programs you might have missed, and provide additional information not available on the cable network. That additional information will include bestseller lists from around the country, opportunities to chat with authors and other readers, information on programming up to four weeks in advance, and background information on authors and publishers.
• Center for the Book in the Library of Congress The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress was established by an Act of Congress (Public Law 95-129) in 1977 to stimulate public interest in books, reading, libraries and literacy. A partnership between the government and the private sector, the center depends primarily on tax-deductible contributions from corporations and individuals to support its overall program of projects, publications, and events of interest to both the general public and scholars. It serves as a catalyst and a source of ideas -- both nationally and internationally -- through an expanding network of affiliated centers in more than 30 states, a reading promotion partnership program that includes more than 50 national civic and educational organizations, and a broad network of "community of the book" organizations.
• Louisiana Center for the Book
• Children's Literature Children's Literature is designed to enhance children's literacy by helping adults find the best children's books available. We pore through the more than 3,000 new children's books published each year to find the very best to review in our newsletter.
• CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide
• CNN - Books News, interviews, reviews.
• Fiction Digest Cafe A review of new novels appearing every two weeks. Outlines of 5,000 novels dating back to March 1994.
• HoustonChronicle.com - Books Etc. Welcome, gentle reader, to HoustonChronicle.com's Books Etc., the resource for bibliophiles. For a week beginning each Sunday, you'll find the latest reviews and book news featured in The Houston Chronicle, along with a special online feature, Chapter One, which highlights excerpts from selected books. Happy reading!
• Human Pursuits The Western Concern Human Pursuits is a nonprofit corporation which develops and implements humanities programs throughout the United States.The book group offers institutions such as libraries, senior centers, etc. multiple copies of hundreds of titles, a study guide and discussion questions for each book. The books are selected in the context of a theme. An example of this is the theme Autobiographies which includes the classic Autobiography of Ben Franklin as well as the contemporary I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Three other core texts complete the theme with additional titles available for substitution or addition.
• Hungry Mind Review Homepage Hungry Mind Review is a quarterly book review magazine founded in 1986, and distributed free in more than 600 independent bookstores around the country. Each print issue is built around a particular theme, and includes reviews and essays by some of America's finest writers.
• The Independent Reader UPC link connects the websites of online booksellers to publisher's web pages in a seamless process designed to deliver comprehensive book information to online book buyers.
• The Internet Public Library The Internet Public Library is the first public library of the Internet. As librarians, we are committed to providing valuable services to that world. We do so for many reasons: to provide library services to the Internet community, to learn and teach what librarians have to contribute in a digital environment, to promote librarianship and the importance of libraries, and to share interesting ideas and techniques with other librarians. IPL Pathfinder: Literary Criticism Literary criticism is the description, evaluation, or analysis of literary works. At different times, critics have used different approaches to write about works of literature.
• The Libyrinth a website devoted to the works of twentieth century authors; experimental writers whom I feel are related by the pair of themes which I refer to as the Library and the Labyrinth.
• Libraries and Bookstores - Authors Net Links Libraries and Library resources from the Mining Company.
• The Library of America : Classic American Literature The Library of America was founded in 1979 to undertake a historic endeavor: to help preserve the nation’s cultural heritage by publishing America’s best and most significant writing in durable and authoritative editions.
• Library of Congress Home Page (What's New) AMERICAN MEMORY : Documents, photographs, movies, and sound recordings that tell America's story. Resources for Educators: The Learning Page. New Collections: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation, Map Collections: 1639-1988 and The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures. Collection Preview: Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection. New Feature: Today in History.
• LibrarySpot - The best of libraries, newspapers, encyclopedias, maps and more in one Spot.
• Links to Book Related Sites
• Literary Lists literary prizes in fiction.
• Literary Traveler online magazine dedicated to the exploration of the literary imagination. We hope to bring you inspiring, informative,  and unique articles about writers, and creative artists, and the places they traveled.
• LitWeb What LitWeb attempts to do is to distill the complexity of literature, book, writing, and publishing resources on the Web to a few key resources, from which you can branch out to more specific categories.
• Los Angeles Times: Books & Talks
• Louisiana Authors Database Resource from the State Library of Louisiana
• Midwest Book Review Reviewer's Choice, Book Lover Resources, Writing and Publishing, Libraries and Universities, Children's Bookwatch, Publishers and Bookstores, etc.
• The Mississippi Writers Page The Mississippi Writers Page is a showcase for the many writers, both past and present, who have called the Magnolia state home. Biographies of the writers, information about their books and other publications, and bibliographies of other information sources (including literary criticism) are among the features available here. It is an ongoing project.
• New York Books The cleverest way to learn about, research, consider, examine, appraise, and buy any American book in print.
• The New York Public Library's Electronic Reader's Advisor Lists and Links for Book Lovers.
• The New York Times: Books Over 50,000 reviews since 1980. First chapters, audios, children's books,
• NOBLE Web: Books North of Boston Library Exchange. General book related links.
• On-Line Books Page
• OPRAH.COM | Current Selection
• Overbooked (Book Links) Central Virginia's Community Online. A Web site for ravenous readers, specializing in genre fiction information.
• Oyster Boy Review Print and Online Journal of Fiction and Poetry
• Painted Rock Writers and Readers Colony hosts a free research mailing list where writers, readers, librarians, and researchers exchange information. Subscribers can post queries.
• PAZ READING GROUPS Promotional Tool Helps Readers Select "Discussible" Books
• Poets & Writers Online
• Rachel's Compendium of Online Book Discussions, et al.
• Readerville. The social life of the mind. If you have a deep and abiding love of literature -- whether you read mysteries or histories, science or spirituality -- this is the place for you.
• Reading Groups The Internet is playing a significant role in bringing bibliophiles together. Article in PW Online Edition.
• RealCities Real Books
• Salon.com Books
• Southern writers The South is known for its writers. So with that in mind, we've compiled some articles on some of our favorites. From Y'All - electronic magazine coverning music, arts, culture and travel.
• Starting a New Book Club?
• State Library of Louisiana
• UTNE READER ONLINE
• Washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Books & Reading
• Want to start a Book Club? from the Richmond Public Library
• What am I going to read.com  Welcome to the web's first online reading group and book resource.   An internet discussion forum for booklovers.
• What Makes a Good Book Discussion
• Women's Bookshelf Home Page With over 1,000 links, the women's cybrary has a good beginning -- but it's only a beginning.
• Women in Literature Database Kutztown University students researched and linked this database as a guide to other students. This database is not meant to be comprehensive but meant, instead, to change, evolve, and expand.
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Electronic Journals This is the WWW Virtual Library Electronic Journals List. Entries in this catalog are added and maintained through WILMA (Web Information-List Maintenance Agent). If you know of a journal or of other lists of electronic journals, please use the addition form to notify us of the URL and we'll add it to our listing.
• The Writer's Voice Welcome to The Writer's Voice, a virtual bookstore reading -- by the authors, in their own voices. Select a photo of one of the writers below to read a brief biography and to hear a digital audio recording of the writer reading from his or her work. Hearing the recording requires the free plug-in, RealAudio, so if you don't have that, please download now. For more information about The Writer's Voice, and to find out how your book can participate, please take a short sidetrip to The Writer's Voice Info and Manifesto.
• The WWW VL Electronic Journals List: Publishers This is the WWW Virtual Library list of Publishing Companies which maintain World Wide Web or other Internet Resources. Entries in this catalog are added and maintained through WILMA.
• The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource: Links for Creative People