Links for Readers

Reviews & Bestsellers

Book Wire: www.bookwire.com
A comprehensive source for book reviews, author news and interviews, new releases, awards, and links to other book-related sites. Features the Boston Book Review, an excellent literary magazine.

BookBrowser: www.bookbrowser.com
Features reading lists, lists of books in series, forthcoming titles, reviews, author information &
interviews.

Genrefluent: www.genrefluent.com
Brief reviews of books by genre including adventure, crime, fantasy, general fiction, graphic novels, historical, horror, romance, science fiction and young adult.

New York Times Book Review: www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html
Reviews, news, bestsellers lists, and full-text first chapters of selected books.

Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers: http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com
List of bestsellers, updated weekly. Includes fiction, nonfiction, children's, religion, computer,
paperbacks and audiobooks. Also includes a searchable archive of articles on books, authors, and the publishing industry.
 

Awards

Amazon.com Award Winners: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/lists/awards/awards.html
An up-to-date and comprehensive list of book awards including the Booker Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Edgar Award (mystery), the Hugo Award (science fiction), and the RITA Award (romance).

Pulitzer Prize: www.pulitzer.org
Lists the winners in all categories from 1917 to the present. For recent winners, examples of the author's work and biographical information are included.

Bookstores

The Book Bin: bookbin.booksense.com
Support your local bookstore! Visit the Book Bin's website and their store at 1151 Church Street in downtown Northbrook.

Amazon: www.amazon.com
The world's largest online bookstore, carrying millions of books, audio books, compact discs, videos and more. Also features an out-of-print book search service. Includes descriptions and reviews of many items.

Bibliofind: www.bibliofind.com
Use one simple search screen to locate that hard-to-find book among millions of volumes in thousands of bookstores worldwide!

BizWeb - Booksellers: www.bizweb.com/keylists/publishing.bookseller.html
A directory of links to numerous booksellers on the web.

Internet Bookshop: www.bookshop.co.uk
This British online bookshop is ideal for Anglophiles.

Authors

Yahoo's Authors: www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors
Links to numerous author web sites, arranged by genre.

Jane Austen: www.pemberley.com
For genteel discussion of Miss Austen's works and times.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: www.sc.edu/fitzgerald
Offers a biography, chronology, list of works, essays and articles and more.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: www.TheModernWord.com/gabo
Features a biography, list of works, reviews, criticism and more.

J. R. R. Tolkien: www.glyphweb.com/arda
The Encyclopedia of Arda gives descriptions and definitions of people, places and things in Tolkien's Middle-earth. The site also gives links to numerous other Tolkien sites. Visit our Lord of the Rings page for more information and links.



Mystery

ClueLass: www.cluelass.com
Features the Bloodstained Bookshelf -- a listing of forthcoming mystery books -- and the Deadly
Directory -- a guide to bookstores, authors, events, awards and more.

MysteryNet: www.MysteryNet.com
Information on mystery books, TV shows and movies including reviews and new releases. The History of the Mystery Timeline profiles authors, characters, eras and genres from Poe to the present. Genre reading lists cover police procedurals, private eyes, spies, cozies, historicals, female sleuths and more.

Sherlock Holmes: www.sherlockian.net
Everything the web offers on Sherlock Holmes is here.

Romance

All About Romance: www.likesbooks.com
Reading lists, reviews, author interviews, discussions and more.

The Romance Reader: www.theromancereader.com
Rated reviews of current romance novels including contemporary, historical, Regency, category and paranormal.

Romantic Times: www.romantictimes.com
An online journal for romance readers and writers.

Good Ton: A Resource for Regency Readers: www.thenonesuch.com
A site for lovers of the Regency romance, listing of thousands of Regencies by author with plots,
characters and ratings. Also includes lists of Regencies by plot or theme, best books, links and more.

Historical Fiction

Historical Novel Society: www.historicalnovelsociety.com
New releases, reviews, interviews and discussion of historical novels.

Soon's Historical Fiction Site: uts.cc.utexas.edu/~soon/histfiction/index.html
Lists authors of historical fiction with biographies, lists of works and web sites. Also features new
historical fiction, current bestsellers, book reviews, resources and links.

The Alternate History List: www.uchronia.net
An annotated listing of books and stories involving the "what if" of history.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

SF Site: www.sfsite.com
Science fiction & fantasy reviews, author interviews, news, awards, and links to other sci fi sites.