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Books on the Web!
Book Guides and Reviews
Children's Literature Web Guide [http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/] offers online stories, poems and songs for children and young adults. It covers award-winning books, specialist publishers and booksellers. Additionally, it provides links to resources for teachers, parents, storytellers, writers and illustrators; links to stories and authors on the Web; lists of award-winning childrens' books, and much more.
Literary Resources on the Net [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/] provides many, many links to literary resources from the classical to contemporary eras, arranged by time period and genre type. The Miscellaneous section includes links to literary Web resources, library resources, reference works and links related to censorship.
BookBrowse.com [http://www.bookbrowse.com] features excerpts, summaries, book reviews and author biographies of current best sellers, including fiction and non-fiction books. Sections include paperback and hardback bestsellers, mysteries, romance, thrillers and books by general subject area.
Booksellers
Amazon.com [http://www.amazon.com] is the place to go on the Web to buy a book (any many other things). In addition to providing discounts, Amazon.com includes lists of books by subject area, best seller lists, book summaries, editorial and customer reviews, reading levels, and suggested/related readings based on your selections.
Barnes and Noble's [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/] on-line bookstore provides more than a place to go buy books. In addition to searching for books by subject, browse an area to locate best sellers, bargain books and professional books. This site also provides a link to bol.com, an online European bookstore. And if you want to find a Barnes and Noble bookstore close to where you are, type in a zip code to find the nearest location.
Borders.com [http://www.borders.com/] outsources their website to Amazon.
Sites by Genre
The Mystery Reader [www.themysteryreader.com] offers reviews and news about mystery novels. Features include new and archived reviews, author interviews, latest mystery news and news from authors, upcoming books, and a lengthy list of Web sites related to mystery books, publishers and best seller lists.
Sister site to the Mystery Reader, The Romance Reader [http://www.theromancereader.com/] provides book reviews by author and type of romance, recommended reading, author interviews, top romance lists, and much more.
The Science Fiction Resource Guide [http://www.sflovers.org/] is a great place to begin when you are in search of anything to do with science fiction literature. This directory provides links to authors, awards, archives, publishers, magazines, movies, games, reviews and more; has a searchable index; and provides links to related sites.
Bartleby [http://bartleby.com/] is "the preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge."
Literary Criticism
The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection [http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/] provides links to more than 2,400 critical and biographical Web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. It also provides a lengthy list of links to other sites related to literary criticism.
The Voice of The Shuttle: Literary Theory Page [http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/theory.html] is great for in-depth research about literary-related topics. Maintained by an English professor, this site provides links to hundreds of resources, broken into general theory resources, classical, enlightenment and romantic, nineteenth century, early to mid-20th century and contemporary.
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