About Books and Literature

Literary Awards

• Award Winners
• Caldecott Medal
• Children and Teen Awards
• Coretta Scott King Award
• The Man Booker Prize
• National Book Award
• Newbery Medal
• All Nobel Prizes in Literature
• Poet Laureate (United States)
• Pulitzer Prize
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Book clubs, lists, genres

• Book Clubs / Reading Groups
  • Does the Library host any book clubs?
  
  
• Book Lists & Reviews
  • Chicago Public Library Reading Lists
  • Kirkus Reviews Special Issues
  • New York Review of Books
  • New York Times Book Review
  • Top 1000 works held by libraries
  • Wall Street Journal Books & Ideas
    
  
  
• 'If you like' lists
  • Debbie's Idea—Which of an author's books to read first
  • If you like... authors and titles with the same flavor as...
  • Readersadvice.com
  • What Should I Read Next?
  • What's Next? Books in Series
    
  
  
• Mysteries
  • Bloodstained Bookshelf
  • Euro Crime
  • Looking for a Mystery?
  • Native American Mysteries
  • Stop, You're Killing Me
    
  
  
• Science fiction
  • Hugo Awards
  • Nebula Awards
  • The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book List
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
  • SF Site
  • Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books
    
  
  
• For Young Adults
  • Best Books for Young Adults
  • Frequently Challenged Books
  • Goddess Librarian: Young Adult Literature Reviews
  • Outstanding Books for the College Bound
  • Reading Rants!
  • YA Books in Series and Sequels
    
  
  
• For Children
  • 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
  • Children's Literature Web Guide
  • Kidsread.com Authors
  • Series books for kids
    
  
  
• Other stuff
  • AllConsuming
  • Goodreads
  • Invisible Library
  • SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
  
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The book trade

• American Booksellers Association
• BookWire Home Page
• Literary Links from the NCIBA
• Literary Market Place Online
• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
• Online Booksellers:
  • Amazon
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Abe (Advanced Book Exchange)
  • Addall
  • Alibris
  • Allbookstores
  • Biblio
  • Bookfinder
  • IndieBound
  • Powell's Books
  • UsedBooks-USA
  
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Criticism and Author Information

• Author Yellow Pages
• Calendar of Authors and Biographical sketches
• Directory of Writers
• Kidsread.com Authors
• Lannan Podcasts
• Literature in English
• Literatures (other than English)
• Literary Index
• Modern American Poets
• Online Literary Criticism Collection
• Voices from the Gaps--Women Writers of Color
• Wired for Books
  
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Electronic Text

• The American Verse Project
• Baen Free Library
• Bartleby.com, Great Books Online
• Classic Reader
• Digital Librarian: Electronic Texts and Primary Sources
• Digital Text Projects
• EServer Poetry Collection
• Google Books
• The Gutenberg Bible: Digitised Images
• Hypertext Projects
• International Children's Digital Library
• Internet History Sourcebooks
• Literature @ SunSITE
• Making of America Collection
• The National Academies Press
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
• The Nineteenth Century in Print
• On-Line Books Page
• Perseus Digital Library
• Project Gutenberg
• Representative Poetry Online
• Wired for Books Kids Corner
  
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Updated May 8, 2012