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NoveList
Readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)
Book Page Online
Many book reviews and author interviews.
Electronic Books
Read or download a book on your computer!
Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
American and British literature pre-1500 to the 20th century.
New York Review of Books
Select Table of Contents for current reviews, or search the Archive for past reviews.
New York Times Books
Requires a free initial registration. Contains over 50,000 book reviews since 1980.
Overbooked (Book Links)
A resource for readers featuring Fiction and Mystery titles which received three or more starred reviews from major review sources.
 Writers are Readers - where authors review books
An online publisher of book reviews written exclusively by authors of book-length fiction and nonfiction.
Oprah's Book's
Read about books seen on the show, Oprah's selection of books that make a difference, her personal favorites, and find out how to host a book club.
Reader Resources
Resources from Random House. The Book Group Corner offers reader's companion guides that provide background and stimulate discussion on specific titles.
Readers Circle
Free zip code-based directory for book clubs, reading groups, and literary salons of all kinds. Intended to connect those interested in talking about books, either in person and over the internet. Reader's Circle also has authors available for over-the-phone visits with groups that have selected their book.
Reading Group Choices
Locate books that are good to discuss, plus discussion guides for hundreds of titles. Includes advice for group leaders.
Start your own book club
Discusses different types of book clubs.
ALA Best Books
Current and past winners of the American Library Association's Outstanding Reference Sources and Notable Books awards.
AwardWeb
Collection of literary award information.
Bestseller Lists 1900-1998
From the Publishers Weekly lists.
BookBrowse.com
Books selected from bestseller lists that have been recently published in the USA, with an excerpt of each one; plus reviews, author bios, interviews, bestseller lists & reading guides.
Genreflecting
Find titles and authors in these genres: historical fiction, crime, romance, science fiction and fantasy. Also includes a teen section.
King County Library System: GOOD READS
Award winners for adult fiction and non-fiction.
King County Library System: Mega-Lit
150 all-time classics.
Series and Sequels
Search by author, title, series or character.
BookSpot
Awards, reviews, bestsellers, book stores, e-books, book groups, and more.
King County Library System: Good Reads For Kids
Lots of links to children's books and authors.
King County Library System: Teen Zone
Young adult authors, book lists, awards and literary criticism, plus sites for teen writers.
AddALL
Provides price comparisons for over 35 online bookstores. Notice the separate link for Used Books.
Best Book Buys
Provides price comparisons for 20 online bookstores.
Alibris
Search for used, rare, and hard-to-find books. See the FAQ file for information on how to search for autographs, letters, and ephemera (vintage movie posters, magazines, newspapers, greeting cards, maps, etc.)
BookFinder.com
A mega-search site for used, rare and antiquarian books as well as new books. Go to the Booksellers page to search their individual suppliers.
eLibrary
The Books section includes literary criticism, biographical profiles of authors, study guides, poems and more. To search for only these items, remove all checkmarks except Books. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)
Literature Resource Center
Biographical information about authors and literary criticism. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)
Internet Public Library: Literature
Librarians' Index to the Internet: Literature & Books
Yahoo! Literature
A wide variety of links to all types of literature and publishing.
Author Indexes
Bookwire's annotated list of Web sites that maintain author indexes. They also have their own Index of Author Web sites.
Librarian's Index to the Internet: Authors
Links to directories, databases, and author home pages.
Aesop's Fables - Online Exhibit
Includes the full public domain texts in html - more than 650 unique fables, indexed with morals listed. Translated by George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and taken from the Project Gutenberg texts. Some include images (by Gustave'a Dore) and sound files.
American Folklife Center
The Center's online services include Folkline, updated weekly with national events, jobs, and training opportunities; the Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States, with contact information for archives, graduate programs, public agencies and organizations; as well as full texts of publications, collections online, and a growing list of links to other resources in ethnographic studies. From the Library of Congress, created by the U.S. Congress in 1976 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife.
Andersen, Hans Christian
1805-1875 This site provides a complete list of Andersen's 168 stories, in the chronological order of their original publication. Most of the stories are presented in full-text. A cross reference provides information on title variations and Danish equivalents for each story. Recommended books on Andersen and his work as well as links to other sites are also provided.
Bulfinch's Mythology
European gods and myths with keyword searching and links to other
websites.
Encyclopedia Mythica
More than 7,000 articles on mythology, folklore, and religion.
Folk and Fairy Tales
Links to many sites.
Folklore and Mythology - Electronic Texts
An extensive collection of tales from around the world, many edited or translated by D. L. Ashliman, a professor of Germanic Languages and Literature. The alphabetical list has stories in categories.
Greek Mythology
An introduction to Greek mythology, with a section comparing Greek and Roman myths.
Latin and Greek Authors on the Web
Links to relevant on-line resources for individual Latin and Greek authors. Most of the authors belong to the Greek and Roman classical antiquity, but some Christian, medieval and Neo-Latin writers are included as well.
Legends
This beautifully designed site explores the history, literature, and folklore surrounding Robin Hood, King Arthur, Hamlet and Macbeth, Blackbeard, Sir Francis Drake, the Three Musketeers, Beowulf, the Vikings, Knights, El Cid, William Morris, and dozens of other characters and genres of balladry, fiction, the arts, and film. The site provides guided access to primary source material and up-to-date scholarship and well as general interest.
Stories, Folklore, and Fairy Tales Theme Page
The site includes lesson plans and curricular resources for students
and teachers.
Camelot Project
Essays, images, bibliographies, and basic information on the legend and literature of Camelot and King Arthur. The highlight of the project is its extensive collection of primary Authurian texts.
Great Books Index
List of links to the full text of Great Books of the world.
Internet Public Library: Online Texts Reference
Links to many sites offering the full text of books online.
Librarian's Index to the Internet: Writing
Links to directories, databases, and specific resources for online plus how to get started on a research paper and how to avoid plagiarism.
Luminarium
Links to early works of literature, including Medieval, enaissance and 17th Century authors.
The Online Books Page
There are over 20,000 full-text books, most of them classics.
Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
The Internet public Library's site containing links to over 2,000 critical and biographical web sites of authors and can be searched by author, titles, nationality, and literary period.
Literary Resources on the Web
Searchable and comprehensive guide to author information with more critical links than most other sites.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
This detailed Web site is a guide to finding literary criticism and commentary about American authors. It is arranged by literary periods, and includes introductions and general bibliographies for each period.
A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
Features both the glossary and the handbook, with searchable entries for common terms and definitions.
ÉCLAT: The Essential Comparative Literature And Theory Site
Resources and links for comparative literature studies.
Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory Page
An exhaustive collection of annotated links about literary theory, past and present. Back up a bit to be overwhelmed by the Voice of the Shuttle parent-site.
Academy of American Poets
American poets and poetry events. The focus is mainly contemporary.
Atlantic Monthly Poetry Page
Reviews and articles.
Poets & Writers Online
The online version of the Directory of American poets and fiction writers contains almost 4,000 names and addresses (including e-mail, if available) of writers and is enough to make this a unique resource. The Literary Links and Great Resources are invaluable for professional and amateur writers and help to make this not-for-profit site one of the premier gatherings of literary information on the Web. Also includes online conferences, literary programs and articles on writing and publishing.
Representative Poetry On-line: Version 2.03
A historical anthology of English poetry, from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century, which includes about 1650 poems by more than 260 authors. Works are indexed by poet, first line, title, date, and keyword, with a section on criticism rounding out the collection.
Rhyming dictionary
Finds matches to your word and leads to dictionary definitions and thesaurus look-ups. Still no match on orange.
Sonnet Central
Created as a labor of love, for poetry lovers, this extensive collection of
English language sonnets can be approached from different points: an
alphabetical list of authors, by time period for sonnets from Great Britain, and by geographical area for everywhere else. Also a timeline of writers, pictures, essays about the sonnet form, criticism, a bibliography, and a listening room with RealAudio recordings. Most sonnets use modernized language. Searchable.
Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
The purpose of this site is to "make the writing of modern Native American authors, particularly the poets, both more visible and more widely available." The site includes pages on or links to more than 40 authors. There is also a calendar of appearances by the authors, links to reviews of their works, a section on traditional storytelling, a page of links to the online works of early 20th century native american authors, and another of links to related sites.
Book Browser
Genre reading lists, with book reviews, author's pseudonyms and home pages.
Librarians' Index to the Internet: Fiction
Includes Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Horror.
Scifan, books and links for the science fiction fan.
Search by writer, book or series. Database is updated almost daily and includes upcoming releases.
Common Errors in English
This useful guide discusses close to 300 errors and goes on to a page about Non-errors - those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English, another of commonly misspelled words, and a nice list of other good resources, including one on heteronyms and another on antagonyms.
Copy Editors - THE SLOT
Here you'll find tips and thoughts on everything from word choice to punctuation, from quotations to capitalization, and everything in-between. The heart of the site is The Curmudgeon's Stylebook - an excellent reference source for writers.
Elements of Style - Strunk, William. 1918
The classic on grammar and composition. Check out the list of words and expressions commonly misspelled or misused.
Grammar and Style Notes
A miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style,and suggestions on usage.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Extensive guide to effective use of the English language. Includes rules for punctuation, plurals and possessives, spelling, nouns and modifiers, words and phrases to avoid, capitalization, spelling and abbreviations, and a lot more. Quizzes and exercises included.
Guide to Grammar and Writing Index
Included are a Frequently Asked Questions page and a Search Engine that will find help on grammatical issues, tips on composition, and advice on English usage.
Yahoo! Literaure Study Guides
Yahoo has selected guides to several specific titles to sites othat provide guides for many classis novels.
The complete works of William Shakespeare
The complete text of all Shakespeare's works, as well as a history of the plays. Searchable by keyword.
The Shakespeare Web
An interactive, hypermedia environment dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays and other works.
A+ Research & Writing for High School and College Students
This is an excellent step-by-step guide to writing research papers which includes tips for getting started; finding information in cyberspace and in the library; and a good annotated list of links to online resources for research and writing.
Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation
Intended for Master's or Ph.D. candidates, this is a guide to the "quasi-political aspects" of the dissertation process. Topics include selecting a supportive advisory committee, and preparing your thesis or dissertation defense.
American Copy Editors Society
This site has tips on editing and headline writing, comments on cliches and bad writing, etc., offered by editors and journalism professors from around the world.
Guide to Writers Conferences & Workshops
Librarian’s Index to the Internet: Authorship
Links to directories, databases, and specific online resources for writers, plus how to get started on a research paper and how to avoid plagiarism.
National Writers Union
The trade union for freelance writers, maintains an impressive site including the latest news regarding writers' salaries, contracts and related legal issues, a Job Hotline, the American Writer magazine, and an annotated directory of online resources for writers.
Poets & Writers Online
The online version of the Directory of American poets and fiction writers contains almost 4,000 names and addresses (including e-mail, if available) of writers and is enough to make this a unique resource. The Literary Links and Great Resources are invaluable for professional and amateur writers and help to make this not-for-profit site one of the premier gatherings of literary information on the Web.
Purdue On-Line Writing Lab: Writing Resources
More than 100 documents on writing skills, in such catagories as: Writing in the Job Search; Punctuation; Parts of Speech; Spelling; and English as a Second Language.
Spelling Test
50 commonly misspelled words. Take the test and see how you do!
Style Sheet for Citing Internet Sources
Answers the questions, MLA style.
Write News
"A professional writer's resource." The Write News offers classifieds, a job board, books, news, and guidelines to online publications of interest to writers.
Writer's Guidelines Database
A database of general guidelines for paying, non-fiction writing from more than 300 magazines, which define the scope and subject matter of articles they publish.
Writers Guild of America
Resources for the general public, screenwriters, and for members of the Guild writing in film, radio, television, and now in interactive media. Features include: The Craft of Screenwriting; Tools of the (writing) Trade; and Interactive Writing - how it's done.
Writing-World.com
Excellent guide to useful writing-related resources on the net. Writers and would-be authors should start here.
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