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Reader's Advisory
Don't know what to read next? Well, you've come to the right place. Check out these terrific web sites for learning more about books:
Books & Reader's Advisory Services- Bestseller Lists 1950-1995
- A resource containing Publisher's Weekly's list of bestselling hardcover books for the entire century.
- BookBrowser
- A site dedicated to reading and offering fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles, author information and much more.
- Books in Print
- This site is available only within the DPL building. A searchable database of books currently in print and those soon to be published.
- Bookwire
- Includes timely book industry news, features, reviews, guides to literary events, author interviews, thousands of annotated links to book-related sites, and more.
- Children's Literature Web Guide
- A link to numerous Internet resources having to do with all facets of children's literature.
- Lake Co Public Library's Reader's Advisory Page
- Each month the Reader's Advisory showcases books around a different theme. These are generally fiction but occasionally complementary non-fiction is included.
- New York Times Book Review
- Stay on top of all the new books reviewed in the New York Times.
- Oprah's Book Club
- Information about current and past selections of Oprah's Book Club.
- Reading Group Choices
- Helps you locate great books to read and discuss and also find print discussion guides for hundreds of titles from a number of large publishers and independent presses.
- San Antonio Public Library's Fiction Home Page
- Pick a book, any book. . .
- Sites for Book Lovers
- Sites provided by the Salt Lake County Library.
- Webrary Reader's Services
- Links, book lists, and more provided by the Morton Grove Public Library.
Online Books- Concordances of Great Books
- A fully searchable index to many of the world's greatest books. You can find where a certain word is located in the text of an entire book!
- Electronic Texts and Publishing (Library of Congress)
- A great place to begin looking for online books.
- IPL Online Texts Collection
- A resource provided by the Internet Public Library for finding online texts.
- Project Gutenberg
- The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
Online Shopping for Books- Amazon Bookstore
- A huge online (and discount) bookstore.
- Barnes and Noble
- The online counterpart to the huge bookstore chain.
- BookFinder
- A search engine that scans bookseller databases to find new, used, rare, and out-of-print books.
- Powell's Books
- Claims to be the largest new and used bookstore in the world.
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