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- General
- Poetry
- Specific Authors
- Electronic Texts
- Quotation Sources
- Writers' Resources
- Reading Group Resources
- Sources for Buying Books and Book Supplies
General Literature Resources
- a.k.a. (author pseudonyms, etc.)
- Author Name Pronunciation Guide (focus on children's authors)
- AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information
- Based on the Book (movies based on books since 1980)
- Book Sense 76 (noteworthy new and recent books)
- BookBrowser
- BookGuide
- Books and Book Reviews on the Web
- British and Irish Authors on the Web
- The British Literature Index
- The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Home Page
- Critical Reading: A Guide
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- Fantastic Fiction
- Fearless Reviews (reviews of books from independent publishers)
- FictionDB.com (reader's advisory site)
- FreeBooknotes
- Great Books of the Great Plains
- If You Like ...
- Imaginary Lands (children's literature)
- Legends
- Literary Calendar
- The Literature Network
- Literature Page (from Cornell University)
- Mystery Reader Resources (BookGuide)
- MysteryGuide.com
- One Book, One Nebraska
- Online Literary Criticism Collection (from the Internet Public Library)
- Prairie Schooner
- The Quotations Page
- Romance Fiction Resources (BookGuide)
- Science Fiction & Fantasy Resources (BookGuide)
- Scottish Writers
- Stop, You’re Killing Me!
- What's Next (search for adult fiction in series)
- whichbook.net (book recommendations)
- Who Reads What? - Celebrity Reading List
Poetry
- About Poetry
- The Academy of American Poets
- American Verse Project
- British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
- British Women Romantic Poets Project
- Electronic Poetry Center
- Introduction to Representative Poetry On-line (from the University of Toronto)
- Lost Poets of the Great War
- Moontown Café
- Poetry Daily
- Poetry Resources (from Cornell University)
Specific Authors
- The Republic of Pemberley (Jane Austen)
- Lewis Carroll home page
- Willa Cather
- Willa Cather Archive
- Agatha Christie: The Official Online Home
- The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
- The Dickens Page
- The Arthur Conan Doyle Society
- Sherlockian.Net (Arthur Conan Doyle)
- The Thomas Hardy Society
- The Hemingway Resource Center
- Timeless Hemingway
- Into the Wardrobe: The C. S. Lewis Web Site
- H.P. Lovecraft
- The Life and Works of Herman Melville
- Middle English Literature (Chaucer, Langland, Malory, etc.)
- John Milton
- Pembroke College Winnie The Pooh Society (A. A. Milne)
- Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- The Robert Louis Stevenson Home Page
- The Dylan Thomas Collection
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Anthony Trollope
- The Edith Wharton Society
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- William Wordsworth
Electronic Texts
(see also the Poetry section)- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
- American Literary Classics
- Bartleby.com
- Bibliomania
- BookGlutton ( a new way to read online)
- BooksShouldBeFree.com (public domain audio books)
- ClassicReader
- The eBook Directory
- Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia)
- Electronic Texts and Primary Sources
- Librivox.org (Free audio books from texts in the public domain)
- Literature Collection
- Literature for Children
- Luminarium: Medieval, Renaissance, & 17th Century texts
- Manybooks.net (free public domain eBooks specially formatted for portable devices)
- Open Library (a website devoted to giving every book a webpage)(many full-text books)
- The On-line Books Page
- Online Literature Library
- Project Gutenberg
- Short Stories at East of the Web
- Wright American Fiction (19th-century American fiction)
- Wowio (free fiction, non-fiction, and comics ebooks)
Quotation Sources
- Annabelle's Quotation Guide
- The Literature Network - Advanced Search
- LitQuotes
- The Quotations Page
- Quoteland.com
- Quotez
- Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations
Writers' Resources
- Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
- Book Marketing Update
- Citation guides for online sources:
- Citing Sources on the World Wide Web (University of Mary Washington Library)
- Citation Style Guides (Syracuse University Library)
- Columbia Guide to Online Style
- Common Errors in English
- Electronic Style Guides
- Guide for Citing Electronic Information
- Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides
- ONLINE! Citation Styles
- Dictionary.com Writing Resources
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
- National Writers Union
- Lincoln Writers
- Nebraska Center for Writers
- Romance Writers of America
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
- WorksCited4U (MLA bibliography composer)
- WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary
- Writers on the Net
Reading Group Resources
- Book Group Resources (from the Nebraska Library Commission)
- Book Group Resources (from Salt Lake County Library)
- Reader's Circle
- Reading Group Choices
- Reading Group Guides
Sources for Buying Books and Book Supplies
- New:
- Used/Out of Print:
- AddALL.com - Used and Out of Print
- Advanced Book Exchange
- Alibris
- Bibliofind
- BookFinder.com
- ChooseBooks (used book search)
- Powell's Books
- TomFolio.com (used book search)
- College Textbooks:
- Price comparison sites: