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BookReporter
With
the tagline "where readers and writers click," BookReporter offers
reviews, features, author profiles, a newsletter, and space for you to
post your own reviews.
BookSpot
Good all around site for information about books and
reading.
Overbooked
This
very useful web site specializes in literary and genre fiction. Includes
some handy features such as starred reviews from the major book review
sources, "best of" lists compiled for easy browsing, and a collection of
reader's advisory web sites.
Yahoo Literature Links
Browsable web categories for web sites dealing with books and
the written word.
Author Pseudonyms
The Mystical Unicorn helps you find other names your favorite
author also writes under. Especially strong for romance
authors.
Paris Review Interviews, 1950 to
present
"Over 50 years of literary
wisdom rolled up in 300+ Writers-at-Work interviews."
Internet Public Library - Literary
Criticism
Links to biographies,
criticism, interviews, etc. for over 2,500 authors.
Yahoo Author Pages
Links to tens of thousands of web sites about authors and their
works.
The Booklist Center
Extensive list of book awards and lists of other recommended
books. 346 awards arranged by category or alphabetically. (No updates since 2004).
Fiction Award-winners
Everett Public Library's print-ready lists (pdf) of major award-winners.
Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY)
Best books of the year according to the folks at
Independent Publisher.
Major Poetry Award Winners
All the major poetry award winners are here.
Pacific Northwest Bookseller Awards
Annual award recognizing excellence in writing from
the Pacific Northwest.
Washington State Book Awards
"The Washington State Book Award (formerly the Governor's Writers Award) is given annually for 10 outstanding books published by Washington authors the previous year."
Everett Public Library Book Discussion
Groups
Join the monthly Main Library discussion group, or drop in to talk about what you've been reading at our monthly Brown Bag discussions.
Book-Clubs-Resource.com
"A comprehensive guide to book clubs, reading groups and
reading group guides."
Reading Group Guides
Guides to keep your book group discussions lively.
Discussion guides for over 1,000 books
Washington Center for the Book
"The Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle
Public Library is devoted to celebrating the written word and encouraging
an exchange of ideas inspired by reading literature."
There are many fine blogs on the web for book lovers. We have chosen to highlight a few of our favorites based on their consistently thoughtful and original essays:
The blogs below provide salient news and information from the literary and publishing worlds:
Book Review Aggregators
Complete Review
This site emphasizes literary fiction and has extensive review
information for more than 1,800 titles, old and new. CR
also tabulates other review sources for titles they've covered and offers the weblog The Literary Saloon.
Metacritic - Books
Metacritic provide "a cross-section of reviews from a carefully-screened group of the most respected critics,"and "uses Metascores to combine all of the individual critic scores into an overall grade."
Overbooked
This
very useful web site specializes in literary and genre fiction as well as narrative nonfiction. Features include starred reviews from the major book review
sources, "best of" lists compiled for easy browsing, and a collection of
reader's advisory web sites.
Believer Magazine
"The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. There are book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and that are very often very long. There are interviews that are also very long. We will focus on writers and books we like."
BookForum
A bimonthly publication with feature articles, author interviews, reviews, and more.
BookPage
A monthly
publication with dozens of reviews, interviews, with a searchable archive.
BookReporter
With
the tagline "where readers and writers click," Bookreporter offers
reviews, features, author profiles, a newsletter, and space for you to
post your own reviews.
Bookslut
"Bookslut is a monthly
web magazine and daily blog dedicated to those who love to read. We provide a constant
supply of news, reviews, commentary, insight, and more than occasional opinions."
Context
"Context is a triquarterly publication intended to create an international and historical context in which to read modern and contemporary literature. Its goal is to encourage the development of a literary community."
Guardian
Unlimited
Book reviews and other links from the Guardian.
Independent Publisher
Includes highlighted new releases, book awards, information on getting
published, industry news, feature articles and more.
January Magazine
Includes book reviews, author interviews, and feature
articles.
Nancy Pearl's Weekly Reviews
Recommendations and reviews from Nancy Pearl on KUOW's "The
Beat."
NewPages
"Good Reading Starts Here! News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more."
New York Review of Books
A bi-weekly publication, with thought-provoking reviews and
features.
Quarterly Conversation
An online quarterly magazine with feature articles and reviews of international literary fiction.
Rain Taxi
"Reviews of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction with an emphasis on works that push the boundaries of language, narrative, and genre."
Review of Contemporary Fiction
"The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization...The Review has a special affinity for the works of foreign writers who may otherwise go unread in the United States, as well as American writers whose work has gone unchampioned in their own country. An extensive book review section also covers recent works of innovative writing."
San Francisco Chronicle - Book Reviews
Weekly reviews.
Village Voice Literary Supplement
Monthly publication of reviews, feature articles,
and more.
Bestseller Lists - 1900-1998
The bestselling books for most of the 20th century, from Cader
Books and Publisher's Weekly.
Book Sense Bestsellers
Bestselling titles as compiled and reported by a number of
independent bookstores.
Fiction_L Booklists
Get fiction reading ideas based on genre, character, setting,
subject, audience, etc.
Mostly Fiction: Booklists!
Waterboro Public Library provides this collection of reading lists covering many popular topics and genres.
Notable Books: the List for America's
Readers
The Notable Books Council of
the American Library Association selects "25 very good, very readable, and
at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the
adult reader."
Oprah's Book Club
Read the books Oprah has chosen for her book club.
Outstanding Books for the College Bound
"The books on this list will... open doors to
discovery, knowledge, adventure, and enchantment. They will inspire you to
think about life, universal truths, and the human experience."
LibraryThing
Use LibraryThing's Book Suggester to find books that may be similar to other titles you've read and enjoyed.
What Should I Read Next?
"Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers'
favourite books (over 32,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next."
BookWeb
A
directory of over 4,500 independent bookstores. Search for specialized
bookstores, bookstores by city or ZIP Code, etc. Maintained by the
American Booksellers Association.
NewPages
"Good Reading Starts Here! News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more."
Publishers' Catalogues
A fine collection of links to publishers websites. Includes indexes by genre, topic and type of material.
Crime
Fiction
ClueLass Home Page
Find information about new releases in the Bloodstained
Bookshelf, or use the Deadly Directory to find mystery conventions,
organizations, awards, reviews, newsletters, etc.
Historical Mystery Fiction
Great listing of historical mysteries. Browse by author
or era.
The Mystery Reader
Many mystery subcategories are reviewed in a fashion similar
to movies - with star and violence ratings - as well as written
descriptions. Includes author interviews, features, and links to
authors. Coverages seems to be on books releases in the late 1990s to
the present.
The Poisoned Pen Home Page
Includes recommended reading in several categories from
classics to present day, also reviews, links to other mystery sites,
features, news, and upcoming events.
Romance
Romance Writers of America
The Romance Novels Database is the star of this site, but
also find current romance bestsellers, author websites, a guide to
romance subgenres, award winners, etc.
The Romance Reader
Romance books in many subcategories are reviewed in a fashion
similar to movies - with star ratings - as well as with written
descriptions. Includes author interviews, features, reader's reviews and
comments, links to authors, etc. Coverage seems to be on books releases
in the late 1990s to the present.
Romantic Times Online
Monthly review of new titles in various romance categories.
Includes resources for writers, reader links, message boards, links to
author's web pages, and more.
Science Fiction and
Fantasy
Locus Online
"News, reviews, resources, and perspectives on science
fiction, fantasy, and horror."
SF Site
Covers
science fiction and fantasy in print, media, and on the web.
Interactive Speculative Fiction
DataBase
"The ISFDB is an effort
to catalog works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror." This is
an extensive resource.
Technovelgy
See
how the ideas and inventions of science fiction writers have come to
life. "Science fiction no more!"
Other
Soon's Historical Fiction Site
This site offers lots of lists and links for the
reader of historical fiction.
Internet Public Library
Among other things, the IPL serves the public "by finding,
evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating quality
information resources" available over the web.
Lib-web-cats
Library web pages and catalogs for over 5,000 libraries
worldwide.
Public Libraries in Washington State
Links to public libraries in Washington
state.
LibWeb - Libraries on the Web
An extensive international directory to libraries of all
kinds.
Contemporary Literary
Criticism Requires Everett Public Library
card
Critical essays and excerpts from
books, newspapers, scholarly journals, and interviews on the work of more
than 600 authors.
Critical Reading: a Guide
Designed for first year college students, this site provides a
good guide for analyzing poetry or fiction. Includes brief advice on
writing an analytical essay.
Internet Public Library - Literary
Criticism
Over 2500 critical and
biographical websites about authors and their works.
Literary Resources on the Net
An extraordinary collection of websites dealing with American
and British literature, arranged by historic period or by broad subject
such as Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature and Feminism,
Ethnicities and Nationalities, etc. Emphasis is on sites useful to
academics.
Voice of the Shuttle
This is an impressive resource for humanities
research.
Banned Book Online
Links to online versions of banned books, along with lists and
resources on censorship.
Book-a-Minute
These condensed books are for those of you too busy to read the
full version. Have fun!
Bartleby
Several
fulltext reference sources (primarily literary) and select full-text
fiction and non-fiction.
Internet Public Library - Online Texts
Links to web sites offering online
books.
One-stop guide to online etexts
A listing of the best websites that serve full-text
online books.
On-Line Books Page
Emphasis is on full-text online books, but this site includes
much more. In addition to over 20,000 online books, find features on book
news, banned books, prize winning books, and women writers. The archives
section has helpful links for literary criticism, foreign language books,
etc.
Project Gutenberg
Over 20,000 full text books.
Academy of American Poets - Poets.org
"The official website of Academy of American Poets, Poets.org offers hundreds of essays and interviews about poetry, biographies of more than 500 poets, almost 2,000 poems, and audio clips of 150 poems. Each month, the site receives a million unique visitors, making it one of the largest and most popular poetry site on the internet."
Electronic Poetry Center
A gateway for readers and writers of experimental electronic
poetry
Modern American Poetry
A multimedia companion to the Anthology of American Poetry by
Oxford Press (2000). Includes excerpts and analysis of poems by over 150
American poets.
PennSound
Excellent collection of MP3 audio poetry.
Poetry Blogs
Gaslight Books Checklist: The 4-part Trilogy
Series and sequels in SF, Fantasy and Horror.
Scifan
Find SF and fantasy series by author or by series
name.
Sequels and Prequels for Romance Novels
Database for novels in
series. Search by author, title, or series name.
Stop,
You're Killing Me!
"A website to die for ... if you love mysteries."
What's Next: A Searchable Database of Novels in
Series
Database for novels in
series. Search by author, title, or series name.
King County Library System - Writer's
Resources
A helpful list of
resources for writers, particularly for writer's groups here in the
northwest.
Poets & Writers
"Poets & Writers, Inc. is the primary source of
information, support, and guidance for creative writers."
Writer Beware
A
project of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, "Writer
Beware conducts a variety of activities revolving around the effort to
raise awareness of the prevalence of literary fraud." Writer Beware
is designed "so it can be used by any writer, regardless of subject,
style, genre, or nationality."
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