Literature

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Books
AllReaders -- Choose from plot, theme, character, and setting options
American Juvenile Collection -- Database of children's fiction and folklore printed in America, 1910 - 1960; as well as the Christine Gilbert Collection of books prior to 1909, both fiction and non-fiction, of all countries.
Award Annuals
AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information -- Emphasis on science fiction awards with others being added.
Banned Books On-line -- Includes a list of the most frequently banned books in the 1990s.
Based on the Book -- A compilation of over 1,250 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures.
Best Selling Books Database -- Lists top 150 titles back to 1993. Provided by USA Today.
Booklist Center -- Collection of booklists.
Bookreporter
Book Seer
Books and Book Collecting -- Includes pointers to searchable booksites and a search for odd volumes and incomplete sets.
BookSpot
Bookwire -- Comprehensive online portal into the book industry.
Camelot Project -- A database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information.
Children's Picture Book Database -- Abstracts of over 4,000 children's picture books, searchable by topics, concepts, and skills.
DarkEcho Horror
FaithfulReader
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopia -- Bibliography that lists and cites and describes sf and critical works from a feminist perspective.
FictionFinder
Frequently Challenged Books
Genreflecting Books of the Week
Gnooks -- Reader's advisory for fiction.
Goodreads
GraphicNovelReporter
Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection -- Mainly of the pre 1960 era.
Gumshoes, Sleuths & Snoopers -- In-depth look at 185 detective and mystery novels originally published during the period 1930-1960.
Historical Mystery Bibliography -- Organized by time period and location.
Internet Speculative Fiction Database -- Searches can be performed by author, title, series or year.
Mysteries in Print -- New and upcoming books and audio tapes with information provided by the publishers.
NewPages
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists
Readers Advisory Link Farm
Series and Sequels -- From the Los Angeles Public Library, a listing of fiction books for adults which are part of a series, or are sequels to earlier novels.
SF Site
Stop, You're Killing Me! -- Resource for the lovers of mystery, intrigue and suspense books.
The Thrilling Detective
What's Next -- Search adult fiction in series by author, title, or series.

Book Groups
LitLovers
Reading Group Choices
ReadingGroupGuides -- Reader's advisor based on public imput.

Electronic Texts
Baen Free Library -- Science fiction and fantasy.
Bibliomania -- More than 2000 classic texts.
ClassicReader -- Collection of over 3061 works of literature including 1703 short stories.
Digital Book Index -- Indexes over 105,000 commercial and non-commercial e-book title records.
Electronic Literature Directory
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
Free Library
Google Books
Harvard Classics and the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
IPL Online Texts Collection
Literary Resources On the Net -- A collection of links dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding single electronic texts.
Malaspina Great Books
Manybooks.net
Modern English Collection -- Includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts, and illustrations from 1500 to present. Part of a subscription database.
National Academy Press -- Nonfiction books.
The On-line Books Page -- Index for on-line books and repositories of on-line books and other documents.
Oxford Text Archive -- One of the oldest and best-known electronic text centers in the world. It now includes full-text searching.
Project Bartleby -- Electronic texts provided by Columbia University.
Project Gutenberg
Questa Online Library
Read Print
University of California Press
Wikibooks -- Free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
Wright American Fiction Project -- Novels published in the United States from 1851 to 1875.

Audio Books
AudioBooksForFree -- Free registration is required.
Gutenberg:The Audio Books Project -- Human-read and computer-generated audio books.
LibriVox -- Provides free audiobooks from the public domain.
Open Culture Audiobook Podcast Collection
Spoken Alexandria Project -- Classics in the public domain and modern works (with permission).

Indexes and Reviews
19th Century American Literary Figures and Literary Texts Online
AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
BookPage
BookReview
Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition -- Index to 3,900 anthologies and single-author collections published before 1984
Index Translationum -- International bibliography of translations.
IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection -- Contains over 1000 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period.
LALP's Short Story Locator -- Index to short stories in collections and anthologies in the Los Angeles Public Library.
Literary Index -- Author and title index to Contemporary Authors and other Gale publications.
The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1999 -- Index created from the monthly Books Received column in Locus Magazine with contents of anthologies, single-author collections, and magazines added. Monthly updates are in a separate 1998 index.
Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes -- Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author.
Monthly Catalog of United States Publications
New York Times Book Review -- All book reviews and book-related articles since 1997. Expands the bestseller list to 30 titles in each catagory. Includes author profiles, interviews and discussion forums.
NewPages Book Reviews
Reviewing the Evidence -- Book reviews of over 500 murder mysteries and thrillers.

Study Guides
BookRags - Book Notes
GradeSaver ClassicNotes
Novel Guide -- Provides literary analysis, which includes summary, character profiles, methaphor analysis, theme analysis, top ten quotes, and author biography.
Penguin Teachers Guides
PinkMonkey
SparkNotes -- Online study guides which includes message boards for discussion.

Miscellenous
A.K.A. -- Author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms des plumes, maiden names... etc.
C-Span - American Writers
Cambridge History of English and American Literature -- An encyclopedia in eighteen volumes written 1907-21.
Legends

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