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BookBrowser
A site dedicated to reading and offering fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles, author information and much more.

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.

Overbooked
Specializes in literary and genre fiction information and includes author web pages; annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction, and mystery books that received starred reviews; themed booklists, featured titles lists; and hot lists of hard cover US fiction releases.

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.

Webrary Reader's Services
Links, book lists, and more provided by the Morton Grove Public Library.

What's Next?
The Kent District Library helps you find the next book in a series, searching by title, author, or series name. Follow this link to KDL's Books & Reading page, scroll down, and click on What's Next?

WhichBook.net
Specify the kinds of qualities you look for in a book on a sliding scale (happy versus sad, serious versus funny, etc.), and find a list of suggested books to read.

Wired for Books
Brings literature alive with audio, video, and old-fashioned text of modern and classic stories, plays, poems, essays, and author interviews.

Online Books

Classic Reader
Here you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and more.

Great Books Index
An index to the great books in English translation with links to online editions if available.

IPL Online Texts Collection
A resource provided by the Internet Public Library for finding online texts.

Online Books Page
Searchable online books and other features provided by the University of Pennsylvania.

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

Abebooks
Advanced Book Exchange, a huge network of independent booksellers. Find new, used, or rare books in bookstores throughout the world.

Amazon Bookstore
A huge online (and discount) bookstore.

Barnes and Noble
The online counterpart to the huge bookstore chain.

Best Book Buys
Helps you find the best online prices for books.

Bibliofind
More than 20 million used and rare books, periodicals and ephemera offered for sale by thousands of booksellers around the world

BookFinder
A search engine that scans bookseller databases to find new, used, rare, and out-of-print books.

Elephant Books
An independent online bookseller of out-of-print, rare, and used books. All books are in stock and guaranteed to be shipped to any destination in the world within 24 hours of placing your order.

FetchBook.info
A free service aimed to provide the best shopping tools for book buyers. Enter the title of the book you're looking for, and FetchBook will tell you where to find it for the lowest price!

Powell's Books
Claims to be the largest new and used bookstore in the world.

Online Magazines

American Journalism Review
A national magazine that covers all aspects of print, television, radio and online media.

Locus
The newspaper of the science fiction world.