Books & Literature

Books in the Media - Literary Resources - Rare Books - Reader's Advisory

African American Fiction - Mystery - Poetry - Romance - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

Books in the Media

Based on the Book

"A compilation of over 1,250 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures ... in the United States, in English, since 1980."

C-SPAN 2 Book TV

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre Book & Film Club

Good Morning America's "Read This!" Book Club

Oprah's Books

USA Today Books

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Literary Resources

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Search for quotes.

Bestseller Lists 1900-1998

Publishers Weekly's lists of bestselling books for each year from 1900 to 1998.

BookFinder.com

Finds books for sale from more than 150 million sellers globally.

BookWire

Online portal into the book industry. Provides articles on the latest industry news, access to literary journals and reviews, and a directory of book sites around the world. Users can also search updated bestseller lists, find listings of literary events, and read author interviews.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's plays and poety full-text online.

Dewey Decimal System

List of subjects by Dewey number compiled by the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center at Nova Southeastern University.

Google Books

Google's collection of digitized books includes a large number of books related to Old English literature and language.  To search magazines, use this link.  

IndieBound.com

Shop online at your favorite independent bookstore.

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism

The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Inter-Play

"Inter-Play is an index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals. It presently contains more than 17,500 citations to plays in many languages."

LitLovers

Resources for people who love book clubs.

The Modern Library "100 Best"

The best 20th century nonfiction and fiction published in the English language, as voted on by Modern Library readers.

National Book Awards

The awards are given annually in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature.

New York State Literary Tree

A directory of literature resources in New York State.

The New York Times Books

Bestseller lists, reviews, etc. Requires free registration.

The Online Books Page

An index of thousands of freely available online books.

Project Gutenberg

An extensive collection of free eBooks, available in several formats.

The Pulitzer Prizes

Read.gov

"The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress invites people of all ages to discover the fascinating people, places and events that await you whenever you read."

Reading Group Choices

Discussion guides and recommendations for reading groups.

Reading Group Guides

Interviews, advice and ideas for your reading group, and hundreds of reading group guides.

SparkNotes

Study guides for English and American literature, Shakespeare, poetry, and drama.

Twayne's Author Series

Twayne World, U.S., and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, U.S., or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.  UHLS library card required for access.

USA Today Best-Selling Books Database

A searchable archive of USA Today's Best-Selling Books list containing the top 150 books from each week from October 28, 1993, when the list began. Readers can search the archives by author, title or a specific week.

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Rare Books

Abebooks

Easy to search service for buying and pricing out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books.

AddALL

Used and out of print search includes over 40 bookstores, 20,000 dealers, and millions of books.

Alibris

Another huge out-of-print source.

Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America

Search for books or book dealers. Also has articles on book collecting.

Reader's Advisory

a.k.a.

An index of author pseudonyms.

All About Romance

For romance novel lovers.

AllReaders

Detailed book reviews from a variety of genres.  Search by title, author, plot, setting, or character.

BookBrowse.com

Read excerpts of bestselling books and many of the best new fiction and non-fiction titles. Plus author bios, interviews, reading guides, and more.

BookPage

BookPage is a reader's guide to selecting the best in new books. Monthly features include interviews with favorite authors, book news, and book reviews in all categories.

BookReporter.com

A site dedicated to book lovers and writers. Author interviews, book reviews, and reading group guides can be found here.

Books in Series

Find the next book in a series.  Search by author, book title, or series title.

BookSpot

Links to book-related content on the Web, including bestseller lists, book awards and reviews, electronic texts, online booksellers, antique books, author and publisher information, literary criticism, book news and events, and more.

Fresh Fiction

Reviews, contests, blogs and events surrounding new fiction.

Genrefluent

Genre and young adult fiction reviews.

"If You Like" Author Search

Type in the name of your favorite author to generate a list of read-alike titles and authors.

MVLS Booktalk

Reader's advisory links from the Mohawk Valley Library System

NPR Books

National Public Radio's suggested reading, author inverviews and recent releases.

Overbooked

A website for readers. Specializing in literary and genre fiction information.

What Should I Read Next?

Type in the name of a book you like and the system will return book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next. 

What's Next

Find out what books are in a series. This database, maintained by the Kent District Library in Michigan, lets you search by author, title, or genre.

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 African American Fiction

African American Literature Book Club

QBR The Black Book Review Online

Quarterly review of black books and black authors.

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 Mystery

Bibliomysteries

Bibliography of mysteries with characters, plots or settings that are library or book related.

MysteryNet

Site has mystery games, an e-newsletter, and resources about mystery books and T.V. shows. Includes online community discussion forums.

The Mystery Reader

Reviews of mystery novels. Organized by subgenre.

Stop, You're Killing Me!
Lists hundreds of authors of mystery novels, with complete, chronological lists of their books. Books are also indexed by series character name, and other attributes (character job, location, historical period, etc.).

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 Poetry

The Academy of American Poets

Poems, biographies of more than 450 poets, historical and thematic poetry exhibits, and much more.

American Verse Project 

An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

Gale Poet's Corner

Biographies of many famous poets and line-by-line explanations of some of their works.

Library of Congress Poetry page

Current events, links to the Poet Laureate and information about Library of Congress poetry collections (video, print, audio and electronic).

Poetry Foundation, Publisher of Poetry Magazine

Read news and poems, search poet and poem archives, and check current bestseller lists. Has daily podcasts of readings.

Poets' Corner

An online collection of poetry, with thousands of works from hundreds of poets. Works range from medieval times to the early 20th century.

Representative Poetry Online

A collection of poems from ancient to modern times.  Search by title, author, timeline, first or last line, calendar, or keyword.

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 Romance

All About Romance

The Romance Reader

Reviews and news of romance novels.

Romantic Times BOOKReviews

Romance novel reviews, booklists by theme, advice for authors, and more.

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 Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

DarkEcho Horror

Interviews with authors, reviews, features, writing workshop and more.

Fantastic Fiction

Bibliographies of science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors, with book covers and author photos.

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

A collection of bibliographic data on works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Locus

An online magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields.

The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Book reviews, opinion pieces, author interviews, fiction excerpts, reading lists and a variety of other features.

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