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Book Reviews & Award Winners
  • Amazon.com Award-winning books - Amazon.com's award winners page. Links to all of the major literary awards.
    www.amazon.com/Awards-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=542942
  • Booklist - The American Library Association's Booklist magazine. Reviews of nearly 4,000 adult books, 2,500 children's titles, 500 reference books & e-reference tools, and 1,000 other AV materials.
    www.ala.org/booklist
  • BookWire - BookWire is a comprehensive online portal into the book industry. Their mission is to provide librarians, publishers, booksellers, authors, and general book enthusiasts with the resources they need.
    www.bookwire.com/bookwire
  • New York Times Book Review - The online version of the weekly book review magazine. Current reviews plus a searchable archive dating back to 1996.
    www.nytimes.com/pages/books/review/index.html
  • Oprah's Books - Oprah's book recommendations as well as link to discussion groups, how to create your own discussion group, Oprah's book club, and other resources.
    www.oprah.com/books/books_landing.jhtml
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    Genre Resources
  • IPL Reading Room Online Text - The IPL Books Collection (formerly known as Online Texts) contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.
    www.ipl.org/div/books
  • The Mystery Reader - News and reviews of mystery novels
    www.themysteryreader.com
  • The Romance Reader - News and review of romance novels.
    www.theromancereader.com
  • SF Site - The Homepage for Science Fiction and Fantasy - The SF Site is dedicated to the best in science fiction and fantasy, in print and media, on the Web and off.
    www.sfsite.com/home.htm
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    Children and Young Adult Literature
  • Caldecott Award Medal Books - Named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, and awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
    www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html
  • Children's Literature Web Guide - The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults.
    www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
  • de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at USM - The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection is one of North America's leading research centers in the field of children's literature.
    www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum
  • Newbery Award Medal Books - Named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
    www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
  • Vandergrift's Special Interest Page - The purpose of this web site is to set forth a triad of literary theory, research, and teaching as the basis for a dialogue.
    scils.rutgers.edu/%7Ekvander
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    Literature
  • Critical Reading: A Guide - This is a guide to what you might look for in analyzing literature, particularly poetry and fiction.
    www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html
  • Literary Kicks - The site is devoted to a few experimental literary movements that tried to uncover some deeper truths about life.
    www.litkicks.com
  • Internet Book Information Center - IBIC is an enthusiast publication intended to serve the global community of book-lovers.
    www.internetbookinfo.com
  • Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database - An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art which was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in Medical Humanities.
    http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/
  • IPL - Native American Authors - Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographies, links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal web sites.
    www.ipl.org/div/natam
  • The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) - The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
    sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL
  • Victorian Women Writers Project - Transcriptions of works by British women of the 19th cent. Anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and more.
    www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp
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    Drama
  • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - This site attempts to be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.
    shakespeare.palomar.edu/
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    Poetry
  • Electronic Poetry Center - The Electronic Poetry Center Library brings you the work of specific authors. Author pages followed by "connect" are links to author pages entirely outside of the EPC.
    wepc.buffalo.edu/authors/index.html#about
  • Poetry Daily, a new poem every day - Poetry Daily is an anthology of contemporary poetry which each day brings you a new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print.
    www.poems.com
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    Full Text Projects
  • Camelot Project - The Camelot Project is designed to make available in electronic format a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information.
    www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm
  • Documenting the American South - A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
    docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
  • Eighteenth-Century Resources - Covers internet resources that focus on the 18th century. Information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, & philosophy.
    www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th
  • Luminarium - Online full text anthologies of Mediaeval, Renaissance & 17th century texts (1350-1660).
    www.luminarium.org
  • Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).
    www.promo.net/pg

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