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