Reviews and Suggestions
BookBrowser: a Guide
for Avid Readers -- This highly
informative site features fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming
titles, author information. Additionally, it organizes fiction according
to reader interests, etc.
Booklist -- This is
the digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist
magazine. It offers reviews of adult books, children's books, reference
books, electronic reference tools, and other audiovisual materials.
Bookwire -- This site contains
timely book industry news, features, reviews, guides to literary events, author
interviews, thousands of annotated links to book-related sites, etc.
Oprah's Book Club--
This is the home page of Oprah's Book Club. It features an up-to-date list
of the Oprah titles along with the air date of her next book club. Also,
it gives readers an opportunity to respond to the books with letters to the
author or as part of a bulletin board discussion.
Salon Magazine
Sneak Peeks -- Salon is an online magazine with a hip edge. This
portion of the site has both an alphabetical list of authors and a search
engine, which allow readers to access reviews of recent literature.
Bookspot -- This site functions as an index to Internet information about books. It links to popular newspapers and periodicals that carry book reviews and synopses, as well as to web sites that carry information on children's literature, bestsellers, etc.
Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism on the Web -- This site functions as an index for literary criticism. It features links to numerous sites that offer criticism, many of them maintained by universities.
IPL Online Literary Criticism -- This site is part of the Internet Public Library and brings together a large collection of links to reputable literary criticism on the Internet. It is searchable by author, title, literary period, etc.
Luminarium -- This site offers biographical and critical information on numerous authors from medieval, renaissance, and seventeenth century Europe. Contributors are typically scholars in their fields, and articles are documented.
The Literary Gothic -- This site, maintained by a member of the Southern Illinois University English Department, offers brief biographical information on authors working in the Gothic, along with links to many of their works in full text. There is also an alphabetical listing of all full-text titles referenced. There are many more resources and a reference guide.
Authors
Booknotes: A Cyber
Companion -- This is an online version of C-SPAN's televised program.
The site features full text interviews with many writers of popular non-fiction.
Interviews are archived back to 1989.
Author Pseudonyms
-- This page allows alphabetical searching by both the author's real name and
assumed name.
Shakespeare
Online
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Home Page -- This site at the University of South Carolina offers various types of information on the life and writings of Fitzgerald. It includes writings, quotations, biographies, criticism, images of book jackets, etc.
Edgar Allan Poe Webliography -- This site is maintained by Rutgers University and is a collection of links to Internet information about Poe. It is organized according to general materials, electronic texts, criticism, etc.
Voices from the Gaps : Women Writers of Color -- Hundreds of writers, famous and obscure, are featured on this site from the University of Minnesota. It is a good research source for high school and undergraduate students.
Full Text Online
MIT Classics
Archive --This database features the full text of numerous literary
works from ancient Rome and Greece. Some
materials from other areas are also represented.
University
of Pennsylvania Digital Library --This database boasts full-text
works in excess of 13,000, and they are searchable by author, title, subject,
etc. It also links to a number of
other online databases and organizes them into categories.
The EServer
-- This database offers over 30,000 full-text works
covering many subjects and time-periods.
World
Wide School Library -- This indexed site features links to full-text
resources covering many subjects, from history to children's literature to
religion.
Perseus Digital Library
-- This site features the full text of many classic works in the humanities.
Many of the works included here remain in their original languages and have not
been translated into English.
Electronic
Text Center -- This database at the University of Virginia library
has since 1992 been compiling a wide range of texts for online use. The
collection ranges from fiction to online journals.
Out-of-Print Books
Book Awards
Book Awards -- This site offers current and historical information about many of the most prestigious literary awards. The award index is alphabetical, and the site is well-organized.
Children's Book Awards -- This site from the University of Calgary contains information about various prizes awarded for outstanding accomplishments in children's literature from around the world. The home page organizes the awards by region or country of origin.
Also, try the home pages for these awards...
