| Use google or your favorite search engine, type in the title & author of the book |
Academic Info Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources |
Amazon.com see their customer and editorial reviews |
Bartleby.com A comprehensive reference site with links to Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, World Factbook, and much more. The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. |
Bas Bleu.com ”Bookseller-By-Post”. A catalogue collection of stationary, books, and literary items. |
| Bloomsbury Magazine.com A free on-line database of reference books. Over 17,000 entries are cross-referenced providing a wealth of information all linked and all fully indexed. Use our search engine to search on a wide range of subjects including literature, art, myth, human thought, quotations and a thesaurus or browse through each book at your leisure. |
Bookreporter.com Where readers and writers click. Includes book reviews, excerpts, author features and interviews and reader polls. |
Chinaberry.com A catalogue of mostly children’s books and arts and crafts but has a very nice "adult readers" section. |
Dwellinpossibility.com A catalog of books and book related items intended to absorb, amuse, celebrate, cherish, create, dwell, explore, imagine, immerse, inspire, nurture and renew your spirit. |
Librarians' Index to the Internet Librarians' Index to the Internet: Information You Can Trust - A Program of The Library of California. Literature and Books |
Literary Resources on the Net Jack Lynch of Rutgers University offers another portal to literary and writing resources/resources for studying and appreciating literature |
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline |
New York Times book pages link you might need to create an account, but it's free |
Reading Group Guides Reading group guides can help make reading and talking about all of these books more fun! Reading group guides contain discussion questions and background material on the author and subject, as well as suggestions for further reading. Guides are available for many of the most popular books for reading groups. |
refdesk.com Comprehensive Internet reference site, including a Books and Literature section |
The VOS "Literature in English" page offers the most and best-organized resources for literary study. This page’s categories are arranged chronologically, by sub-category, and by nation of origin |
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