Literature Resources
Library Websites
| Books and Authors Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists. |
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| In Context: Biography Information on the world's most influential people. Includes periodicals, articles, and multimedia allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender.. |
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| Literature Resource Center Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. |
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| NoveList Plus Information on more than 135,000 fiction titles, searchable by author, title, series. Find a forgotten title with the "describe a plot" feature. |
Non-Library Websites
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All Readers Book reviews on renowned authors of Science Fiction, Mystery, Romance, History, Biographies, Action Adventure. |
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Biography.com Information on famous individuals, past and present, along with news and headlines affecting the world today. |
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| Booknotes C-SPAN's signature author interview program, unedited, commercial-free format, allows for an in-depth discussion with an author. |
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eNote The criticism collection includes more than 40,000 full-length or excerpted essays, spanning more than 25 years of literary criticism. |
| Entertainment Weekly Book Reviews Book reviews and articles about books and authors. |
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| Good Reads Books and reader reviews. |
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Infoplease: Biography Database of over 30,000 biographies. |
| Kirkus Reviews More than 500 pre-publication books each month, including fiction, nonfiction, children's and young-adult books. |
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| LibraryThing Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog for your books at home. |
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| National Book Award Lists of winners and finalists. |
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New York Times Bestsellers List Current bestseller lists, and searchable archives. |
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Nobel Prize for Literature List of all the Nobel Prize winners in Literature since inception in 1901. |
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OCLC's Fiction Finder Access to 2.8 million works of fiction found in the OCLC WorldCat database. With FictionFinder, you can search for books, eBooks, and audiobooks by titles, authors, ISBNs, and other information such as literary awards and book summaries. |
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Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers List List information supplied by Nielsen BookScan. |
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Pulitzer Prize Listing of current and past winners of the 21 different Pulitzer Prizes. |
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What Should I Read Next? Users can search for books that are similar to what they have already read and enjoyed. |
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WhichBook Lets you build a description of the kind of books you like and then matches that description against the books in the database. |
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Youth Media Awards ALA awards and winners, including Newbery, Caldecott, Printz. |