Books and Reading
Abebooks.com
Abebooks.com
(ABE) claims to be the world's largest web-based network of independent
booksellers, owned and operated by its founders from Victoria, BC. ABE
provides booksellers with the online capability of selling their books to
customers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
Alibris
Visitors
to Alibris gain access to a database of millions of rare and hard-to-find books,
manuscripts, maps, photos, prints, and autographs.
Amazon.com
Amazon.com,
a prominent retail site, offers a broad range of book information through a
well-designed interface.
Bibliofind
Bibliofind
offers a speedy search interface to the combined offerings of many rare and
out-of-print dealers.
BookBrowser
BookBrowser
is a collection of fiction reading lists arranged by genre, series, region,
topic, and so on.
Bookweb
Bookweb
hosts news and information about books, the bookselling industry as well as
authors. Includes an archive of articles, a media guide, and a bookstore
directory.
Bookwire
Bookwire
claims to be the book industry's most comprehensive and thorough online
information source. It includes timely book industry news, features, reviews,
guides to literary events, author interviews, thousands of annotated links to
book-related sites, and more.
English
AS A Second Language Home Page
The
ESL site presents activities designed to enhance speaking, listening, reading,
and writing. It also includes links to other sites for students.
Governor
General’s Literary Awards
This
is the site of Canada’s premier literary awards with links to related sites.
The
Hungry Mind Review
The
Hungry Mind provides a selection of current and archived book reviews, plus a
useful thematic selection of archived reviews, as well as author interviews.
Internet
Book Information Center
This
granddaddy of book-related sites on the Internet presents links to authors,
publishers, booksellers, libraries, rare books, online books and magazines, and
the Web Review Database. It is a selective guide to books and to
book-related resources on the Internet.
MIRAGe
Homepage
MIRAGe,
the Mid-Illinois Readers' Advisory Group, is hosted by a group of librarians who
are interested in developing their Readers' Advisory skills and in promoting
literature and reading for pleasure. They provide extensive readers’ advisory
links for readers of all genres.
Mysteries.com
A&E's
Mysteries.com is the ultimate Web site for mystery fans. Become a detective or
read about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie and Miss Marple.
The
Mysterious Home Page
This
site is a nicely arranged meta-list of links to sleuth sites including
categories such as characters, themes, authors, conferences, awards,
periodicals, film and TV, publishers, e-texts, and more.
MysteryNet.com
MysteryNet.com
offers online discussion in areas such as radio, history of the genre, authors,
lesson plans, and weekly cases to name a few.
The
New York Times on the Web
The
New York Times provides reviews, online discussions, book news, and the first
chapters of some current works.
Oprah’s
Book Club
Oprah’s
Book club site includes her latest selection, past selections, discussions, and
related information.
Reader’s
Robot
This
is a computerized reader’s advisory service. Users select books from
each of 10 groups within a specific genre, and the computer recommends other
books based on these choices. Genres include science fiction, mystery,
fantasy, popular science, romance, western, war action adventure and horror.
The
Romance Reader
Nicely
designed and regularly updated, this site has more than 1,500 reviews in
specific romance categories such as historical, contemporary, series, Regency,
time travel and fantasy. Other features include author interviews,
“readers recommend,” and “top-10” lists.
Romance
Writers of America
Featuring
special menus for different kinds of users such as readers, writers, librarians,
and others, RWA offers links to various romance subgenres, lists of author
appearances, and current events in the field.
Science
Fiction Resource Guide
Named
the largest index to science fiction, this site integrates links to authors,
fandom, art, bookstores, movies, chat rooms, comics, role-playing, TV,
conventions, games, reviews, costuming, and more.
What
Do I Read Next? Online
Featuring
more than 85,500 recommended titles, What
Do I Read Next? Online cumulates entries from the popular print products
What Do I Read Next?, What
Do Young Adults Read Next?, What
Do Children Read Next?, What
Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, and What
Historical Novel Do I Read Next? plus thousands of award winners,
bestsellers, and librarian favorites. Additionally, What
Do I Read Next? Online reaches beyond the scope of the print series to
include contemporary mainstream fiction, classic fiction and popular
nonfiction. This is a fee-based database that is available in Lambton
County libraries with internet access.
Yahoo!
Books
Yahoo’s
online shopping site also provides books information about best sellers,
book reviews, interviews, awards, previews, and more