Literature
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- Books
- 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000
- AllReaders -- Choose from plot, theme, character, and setting options
- American Juvenile Collection -- Database of children's fiction and folklore printed in America, 1910 - 1960; as well as the Christine Gilbert Collection of books prior to 1909, both fiction and non-fiction, of all countries.
- AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information -- Emphasis on science fiction awards with others being added.
- Banned Books On-line -- Includes a list of the most frequently banned books in the 1990s.
- Best Selling Books Database -- Lists top 150 titles back to 1993. Provided by USA Today.
- Bibliomysteries -- Mysteries related to the world of books, archives, and libraries.
- Booklist Center -- Collection of booklists.
- Bookreporter
- Books and Book Collecting -- Includes pointers to searchable booksites and a search for odd volumes and incomplete sets.
- Bookwire -- Comprehensive online portal into the book industry.
- Camelot Project -- A database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information.
- Children's Picture Book Database -- Abstracts of over 4,000 children's picture books, searchable by topics, concepts, and skills.
- DarkEcho Horror
- FictionFinder
- Genreflecting Books of the Week
- Gnooks -- Reader's advisory for fiction.
- Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection -- Mainly of the pre 1960 era.
- Gumshoes, Sleuths & Snoopers -- In-depth look at 185 detective and mystery novels originally published during the period 1930-1960.
- Historical Mystery Bibliography -- Organized by time period and location.
- Historical Mystery Fiction
- If You Like ... -- Reference guide to authors and genres.
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database -- Searches can be performed by author, title, series or year.
- Libyrinth -- Devoted to the works of twentieth century authors: experimental writers who use a multitudinous cross-referencing of resources and a prose style that employes many winding paths through a shifting veil of reality.
- Literary Gothic -- collection of links pertaining to the Gothic novel, Gothic fiction, and all other forms of literary Gothicism and subsequent traditions.
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet -- Annotated guide to Shakespeare resources available on Internet.
- Mysteries in Print -- New and upcoming books and audio tapes with information provided by the publishers.
- The Mystery Reader -- The latest news and views of mystery novels.
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound
- Overbooked -- Specializes in literary and genre fiction information.
- Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists
- Reader's Robot -- Reader's advisor based on public imput.
- ReadingGroupGuides -- Reader's advisor based on public imput.
- Romance Reader -- Latest news and views of romance novels.
- Series and Sequels -- From the Los Angeles Public Library, a listing of fiction books for adults which are part of a series, or are sequels to earlier novels.
- SF Site
- Stop, You're Killing Me! -- Resource for the lovers of mystery, intrigue and suspense books.
- The Thrilling Detective
- What's Next -- Search adult fiction in series by author, title, or series.
- Electronic Texts
- Baen Free Library -- Science fiction and fantasy.
- Bibliomania -- More than 2000 classic texts.
- ClassicReader -- Collection of over 3061 works of literature including 1703 short stories.
- Digital Book Index -- Indexes over 105,000 commercial and non-commercial e-book title records.
- eBook Locator
- Electronic Literature Directory
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
- Free E-books
- Great Books Index
- Harvard Classics and the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
- IPL Online Texts Collection
- Literary Resources On the Net -- A collection of links dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding single electronic texts.
- Malaspina Great Books
- Manybooks.net
- Metronet E-book Project -- Collection of websites that offer e-books.
- Modern English Collection -- Includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts, and illustrations from 1500 to present. Part of a subscription database.
- National Academy Press -- Nonfiction books.
- The On-line Books Page -- Index for on-line books and repositories of on-line books and other documents.
- Oxford Text Archive -- One of the oldest and best-known electronic text centers in the world. It now includes full-text searching.
- Project Bartleby -- Electronic texts provided by Columbia University.
- Project Gutenberg
- Read Print
- SearcheBooks
- University of California Press
- World eBook Library -- Public access section offers a full text search of 22,741 HTML eBooks.
- Wright American Fiction Project -- Novels published in the United States from 1851 to 1875.
- Audio Books
- AudioBooksForFree -- Free registration is required.
- Gutenberg:The Audio Books Project -- Human-read and computer-generated audio books.
- LibriVox -- Provides free audiobooks from the public domain.
- Open Culture Audiobook Podcast Collection
- Spoken Alexandria Project -- Classics in the public domain and modern works (with permission).
- Indexes and Reviews
- 19th Century American Literary Figures and Literary Texts Online
- BookPage
- BookReview
- Complete Review
- Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition -- Index to 3,900 anthologies and single-author collections published before 1984
- Index Translationum -- International bibliography of translations.
- IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection -- Contains over 1000 critical and biographical wesites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period.
- LALP's Short Story Index -- Index to short stories in collections and anthologies in the Los Angeles Public Library.
- Literary Index -- Author and title index to Contemporary Authors and other Gale publications.
- LitLinks -- Links to additional research on authors and literature.
- The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1997) -- Index created from the monthly Books Received column in Locus Magazine with contents of anthologies, single-author collections, and magazines added. Monthly updates are in a separate 1998 index.
- Monthly Catalog of United States Publications
- New York Times Book Review -- All book reviews and book-related articles since 1997. Expands the bestseller list to 30 titles in each catagory. Includes author profiles, interviews and discussion forums.
- Reviewing the Evidence -- Book reviews of over 500 murder mysteries and thrillers.
- Study Guides
- BookRags - Book Notes
- CliffsNotes
- GradeSaver ClassicNotes
- Literature Essays -- Literature summaries and analysis.
- Novel Guide -- Provides literary analysis, which includes summary, character profiles, methaphor analysis, theme analysis, top ten quotes, and author biography.
- PinkMonkey
- SparkNotes -- Online study guides which includes message boards for discussion.
- Miscellenous
- A.K.A. -- Author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms des plumes, maiden names... etc.
- Authors Encyclopedia -- Portraits, biographies and pictures of 460 classic authors. 1258 online books of classical literature.
- C-Span - American Writers
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature -- An encyclopedia in eighteen volumes written 1907-21.
- A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
- Legends
- Twentieth-Century Authors -- Selected Web sites that cover English-language authors of the twentieth century with the primary focus on biographical and bibliographic information with some literary criticism.
- Web Sites for Book Lovers
- Ye Olde English Sayings
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