Books

General Book-Related Resources

Book Clubs

  • African American Literature Book Club — “The Most Popular Website Dedicated to Books by or About African Americans”
  • Masterpiece Theatre Book Club — “The Masterpiece Theatre Book Club gives viewers the opportunity to read and discuss selected books alongside their screen adaptations.”
  • Today : Books — The morning television program invites guest authors to select books by other authors, and to come on the show to discuss them.

Online Booksellers

  • BookSense — BookSense.com is a cooperative project of independent-bookseller websites and the American Booksellers Association
  • Amazon — One of the first and best-known online booksellers
  • Barnes and Noble — Online version of the book superstore chain
  • BookFinder.com –Simultaneously search many the online catalogs of many different new and used booksellers

Resources by Genre

Reading Group and Study Guides

Literature

  • English Literature (from Voice of the Shuttle) — The Voice of the Shuttle, a large, organized collection of web resources in the humanities, from the University of California at Santa Barbara
  • The Modern English Collection — The University of Virginia Library presents this large, well-organized and meticulously maintained collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters and other documents from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author’s last name or by category of interest, as part of their Electronic Text Archive.
  • The Complete Works of Shakespeare — A searchable Shakespeare archive
  • Native American Authors — This collection from the Internet Public Library includes bibliographies, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites
  • BBC: Books — Includea an excellent collection of brief biographies of links about prominent authors, with links to related websites, audio files, and other resources
  • Online Literary Criticism Collection — A collection of biographical and critical information about authors and their works, from the Internet Public Library
  • Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color — A collection of biographical and critical information on authors and their works, from the University of Minnesota
  • Hawthorne In Salem — Information, documents, research and photographs related to author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s days in Salem, Massachusetts

Poetry

  • The Academy of American Poets — Information on the Academy and its programs as well as collections, exhibits, biographies and sound files of poets reading their own works
  • Bartleby.com Verse — A large, searchable collection of poetry
  • American Verse Project — A large, searchable collection of American poetry from the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative