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Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Books in the Media
ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre Book & Film Club
Good Morning America's "Read This!" Book Club
Literary Resources
Bestseller
Lists 1900-1998
Publishers Weekly's lists of bestselling books for
each year from 1900 to 1998.
BookFinder.com
Finds books for sale from more than 150 million sellers globally.
BookWire
Online portal into the book industry. Provides articles
on the latest industry news, access to literary
journals and reviews, and a directory of book sites
around the world. Users can also search updated
bestseller lists, find listings of literary events,
and read author interviews.
Dewey Decimal System
List of subjects by Dewey number compiled by
the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center at Nova Southeastern University.
IndieBound.com
Shop online at your favorite independent bookstore.
Internet
Public Library: Literary Criticism
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical
and biographical websites about authors and their
works that can be browsed by author, by title, or
by nationality and literary period.
Inter-Play
"Inter-Play is an index to plays in collections,
anthologies, and periodicals. It presently contains
more than 17,500 citations to plays in many languages."
The
Modern Library "100 Best"
The best 20th century nonfiction and fiction published
in the English language, as voted on by Modern Library
readers.
National
Book Awards
The awards are given annually in the categories
of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's
literature.
New York
State Literary Tree
A directory of literature resources in New York
State.
The
New York Times Books
Bestseller lists, reviews, etc. Requires free registration.
The
Online Books Page
An index of thousands of freely available online
books.
Project Gutenberg
An extensive collection of free eBooks, available in several formats.
Reading
Group Choices
Discussion guides and recommendations for reading
groups.
Reading
Group Guides
Interviews, advice and ideas for your reading group,
and hundreds of reading group guides.
SparkNotes
Study guides for English and American literature,
Shakespeare, poetry, and drama.
USA
Today Best-Selling Books Database
A searchable archive of USA Today's Best-Selling
Books list containing the top 150 books from each
week from October 28, 1993, when the list began.
Readers can search the archives by author, title
or a specific week.
Local Literary Resources
Books End
Local bookstore specializing in used, out-of-print, and rare books. They have a searchable online catalog.
Central
New York Romance Writers
A local affiliate of Romance Writers of America.
The website has author information and member news.
CNY
Reads March
The CNY Reads Consortium has selected the book "March" by
Geraldine Brooks for the 2009-2010 season.
Downtown
Writer's Center
A program of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse.
Old and Rare Books
Abebooks
Easy to search service for buying and pricing out-of-print, used, rare and
antiquarian books.
Alibris
Another huge out-of-print source.
Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
Search for books or book dealers. Also has articles on book collecting.
Reader's Advisory
a.k.a.
An index of author pseudonyms.
BookBrowse.com
Read excerpts of bestselling books and many of the best new fiction and non-fiction
titles. Plus author bios, interviews, reading guides, and more.
BookPage
BookPage is a reader's guide to selecting the best in new books. Monthly features
include interviews with favorite authors, book news, and book reviews in all
categories.
BookReporter.com
A site dedicated to book lovers and writers. Author interviews, book reviews,
and reading group guides can be found here.
BookSpot
Links to book-related content on the Web, including bestseller lists, book
awards and reviews, electronic texts, online booksellers, antique books, author
and publisher information, literary criticism, book news and events, and more.
Genrefluent
Genre and young adult fiction reviews.
NPR Books
National Public Radio's suggested reading, author inverviews and recent releases.
Overbooked
A website for readers. Specializing in literary and genre fiction information.
Reader's Robot
The Reader's Robot will try to match your reading tastes
with books in its database and suggest books you might
enjoy.
What's Next
Find out what books are in a series. This database, maintained by the Kent District Library in Michigan, lets you search by author, title, or genre.
Your Next Read
This site provides you with a web of book recommendations based on the authors and books you already like. Type in the title of a book you like or author you like and you will see a web of books you might also enjoy. Click on any of the books appearing the web to create another new web.
African American Fiction
African American Literature Book Club
QBR The Black Book
Review Online
Quarterly review of black books and black authors.
Mystery
Bibliomysteries
Bibliography of mysteries with characters, plots or settings that are library
or book related.
MysteryNet
Site has mystery games, an e-newsletter, and resources
about mystery books and T.V. shows. Includes online community discussion
forums.
The Mystery Reader
Reviews of mystery novels. Organized by subgenre.
Stop, You're Killing Me!
Lists hundreds of authors of mystery novels, with complete, chronological
lists of their books. Books are also indexed by series character name, and
other attributes (character job, location, historical period, etc.).
Poetry
The Academy of American Poets
Poems, biographies of more than 450 poets, historical and thematic poetry
exhibits, and much more.
American Verse Project
An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
Gale
Poet's Corner
Biographies of many famous poets and line-by-line explanations of some of
their works.
Library of Congress Poetry page
Current events, links to the Poet Laureate and information about Library of Congress poetry collections (video, print, audio and electronic).
Poetry Foundation, Publisher of Poetry Magazine
Read news and poems, search poet and poem archives, and check current bestseller lists. Has daily podcasts of readings.
Poets' Corner
An online collection of poetry, with thousands of works from hundreds of poets.
Works range from medieval times to the early 20th century.
Romance
The Romance Reader
Reviews and news of romance novels.
Romantic Times
BOOKReviews
Romance novel reviews, booklists by theme, advice for authors, and more.
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
DarkEcho Horror
Interviews with authors, reviews, features, writing workshop and more.
Fantastic Fiction
Bibliographies of science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors, with book
covers and author photos.
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
A collection of bibliographic data on works of science fiction, fantasy, and
horror.
Locus
An online magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing
fields.
The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction
and Fantasy
Book reviews, opinion pieces, author interviews, fiction excerpts, reading
lists and a variety of other features.
Last updated: August 4, 2010