About Books:

American Literature:

  • American Authors on the Web
    Listing of American authors with excerpts from their works.

  • American Writers Series from C-Span
    C-SPAN looks at the lives and works of selected American writers who have chronicled, reflected upon or influenced the course of our nation's history and explore what their works mean to Americans today.  In this series, C-SPAN takes viewers around the country to historic sites, birthplaces and homes associated with the lives and works of these great American writers for a new live program each week.

  • Literary Timeline and Movements
    Offers links to other sites on the net with links to Great Literature sites, online books, and American Literature sites.

  • Literary Resources on the Net: American Literature
    Another listing of American literature links and author links.

  • Online Literary Criticism Collection
    The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4745 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

  • Outline of American Literature
    Timeline of the major periods of American Literature.

  • Spark Notes
    A site with notes similar to Cliff notes.

Awards:

Best Sellers:

Book Reviews:

English Literature:

Full Text Collections:

  • The English Server from Carnegie Mellon University
         Full text collections available in a range of subjects from Art History and Journalism to fiction and Drama.

  • MOA: The Making of America Project
         MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

  • On-line Books Page
    Over 15,000 listings of full texts available to be downloaded.

  • Online Medieval and Classical Library
    The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

  • Project Bartleby
         The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

  • Project Gutenberg
    The premier project to digitize the greats in literature.  Browse their selections of classics from the Koran and the Bible to Alice in Wonderland.

  • Univ. of Va. English Electronic Text Resources
         Modern English, Middle English, and Old English text available for download in a variety of formats.

Genre and Book Lists:

  • BookBrowser
         BookBrowser is a site dedicated to reading offering fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles, author information and much more. 

  • Horror Writers Association
         The HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION (HWA) is a worldwide organization of writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of writers of Horror and Dark Fantasy. It was formed in the 1980s with the help of many of the field's greats, including Joe Lansdale, Robert McCammon, and Dean Koontz. HWA now has members throughout the United States, Canada, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Australia.

  • The Literary Gothic
         The Literary Gothic is a Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and super naturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20.

  • MysteryNet.com: The Online Mystery Network
         Free mysteries for download with sections for adults and kids.

  • Oprah's Books Club
         She may not have originated the book club, but she definitely made it a mainstream event!

  • Romance Writers of America - The Voice of Romance
         Romance Writers of America is the professional association for 8,400 published and aspiring romance writers. Members of RWA write the novels that make up 55% of all popular paperback fiction and that generate more than $1 billion in sales each year. 

  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
    Science Fiction Writers of America was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight, who also served as its first president. In 1992, the membership voted to officially change the name to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.  Each year they announce the prestigious Nebula Awards.

  • SF Site :The Homepage for Science Fiction and Fantasy
         SF site is a great source for Sci-Fi and Fantasy texts as well as reviews.

  • Soon's Historic Fiction Site
         A wealth of links and information on historical fiction with bibliographies and book lists as well as online texts.

Grammar and Writing Resources:

  • Absolute Write
         If you are interested in freelance writing, screenwriting, playwriting, writing novels, nonfiction, comic book writing, greeting cards, poetry, and songwriting then Absolute Write is your first stop.

  • Glossary of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
    Unsure what an anadiplosis is?  Think assonance is a crime?  You better drop buy this glossary and brush up on your rhetorical devices.

  • Grammar, Usage & Style
         Do you know the 11 rules of writing?  Do you commit many of the common errors in English?  You better get on the ball and check out this site!

  • OWL (On-line Writing Lab)
         OWL is a cyberextension of the Purdue University Writing Lab, under the direction of Muriel (Mickey) Harris. The OWL site contains over 500 pages of handouts, tutorials, and workshops and hundreds of links to other writing resources across the World Wide Web.

  • Researchpaper.com: Writing Center
         Researchpaper.com is the Web's largest collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects. The Internet is a tremendous resource, but they can show you how to make the most of your time online. Find the best information available, eliminate frustration, and get better grades… with Researchpaper.com!

  • Writers Write
         A one-stop shop for information on books, writing, and publishing.

Multicultural Literature:

  • African American Writers Page
         A comprehensive listing of African American works.

  • African Writers: Voices of Change
         Another site that lists works by great African American writers through the ages.

  • Celebration of Women Writers (International)
         The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing.

  • Native American Authors

    • This website provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites. Currently the website primarily contains information on contemporary Native American authors, although some historical authors are represented. The website will continue to expand, adding additional authors, books and web resources.

  • Storytellers: Native American Authors On-line
         This site was conceived with a very particular aim: to make the writing of modern Native American authors, particularly the poets, both more visible and more widely available.

  • Texts By and About African-Americans from the Modern English Collection
         The University of Virginia has gathered a collection of African-American works to be viewed on the web.

  • Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color
         Voices From the Gaps is an instructional Web site focusing on the lives and works of North American women writers of color.

  • Voice of the Shuttle: World Literature Written in English
         The new VOS started in 1994 as a suite of static Web pages, VoS has now been rebuilt as a database that serves content dynamically on the Web. Users gain greater flexibility in viewing and searching, while editors are able to work more efficiently and flexibly.

Online Booksellers:

  • AddALL: Book Search & Price Comparison
         AddALL is a free service that searches for the best deal in books anywhere on-line. It was built by book buyers for book buyers. AddALL is an independent and impartial web site, not owned by any bookstore. The search result is therefore totally objective.

  • Alibris
    Whether you're searching for your family's favorite cookbook or a hard-to-find mystery, Alibris offers millions of out-of-print, used, foreign language, and collectible books from our worldwide network of booksellers and from our very own shelves.

  • Amazon.com
         Undoubtedly the most popular site to order books, movies, and electronics on the web.

  • Barnes & Noble
         Offers readers a chance to buy books online as well as in their many stores.

  • BookWeb.org from the American Booksellers Association
         Browse a list of over 4,500 Booksellers, complete with URLs, email addresses and descriptions. Easily track down bookstores in your corner of the world.

  • Books on Tape
         A huge source for books on tapes for both individuals and libraries.

  • RecordedBooks.com
         An audio book site.

Poetry:

Quotations:

  • Aphorisms Galore!
         When you want to sell, convince, praise, insult, jest or impress, a carefully selected aphorism is a great help. You can use aphorisms in speeches, email signatures, advertising, articles, invitations, etc. Somehow, it's often easier to make a point by quoting someone else than by relying entirely on your own eloquence.  The best results are achieved by not only using the quote itself, but by also indicating the source. The goal of Aphorisms Galore! is to store an abundance of aphorisms along with information on their origin, and make all this available with an easy to use interface.

  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1901 ed.
         The king of quotations is back in a website form.

  • The Quotations Page
         This searchable database has over 20,000 quotations.

  • QuoteWorld
         Browse quotes, check out the quote of the day, or request quotes.

Shakespeare: