Corvallis-Benton County Public Library

Websites for Book Lovers

Online Book Reviews   |   Booklists and Book Suggestions

Authors   |   Award Winning Books |   Literary Criticism

Book Stores and Book Trade Associations   |   Publishers

Reading Groups   |   Online Literature Resources   |   Poetry

BookLetters
Sign up to receive updates on new books and DVDs, New York Times Bestsellers, books featured on NPR and other media outlets, staff picks and more. Most lists are updated monthly but some are updated daily or weekly. You can sign up for as many or as few Bookletters as you like or browse the lists on our website. In addition Bookletters offers an author directory with biographical information and interviews and easy to browse lists of award winning titles.

Booklist Online      Click here if inside the library   |   Click here if outside the  library
Online version of Booklist magazine with reviews of thousands of fiction and non fiction books, recommended reading lists and editorial columns.

NoveList   Click here if inside the library   |   Click here if outside the library
Readers' advisory for fiction books.

NoveListK-8    Click here if inside the library   |   Click here if outside the library
Readers' advisory for fiction books for young readers in the K-8th grade range.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database   Click here if inside the library   |   Click here if outside the library
Critical reviews of thousands of children's books.

Literature Resource Center
Contemporary Authors online and more.

LitFinder (Poems/Stories/Essays)
Search for poems, short stories and essays.

Magills - Literature Plus
Reviews and plot summaries of famous literature with articles about famous authors.

Public Library Catalog, Electronic Edition     Click here if inside the library   |   Click here if outside the library
A catalog of librarian-recommended best reference and nonfiction books. Includes full text reviews from WilsonWeb's Book Review Digest database.

TumbleBook 
The TumbleBook Library is a collection of free interactive animated talking storybooks for children.  Children can chose to read the text or have the stories read to them.  Some books feature "Word Help" to assist  children in sounding out words. There are also book-related puzzles and games to play.  Stories are available in English, Spanish, French and Chinese.


Websites

 Online Book Reviews

• The New York Times Book Review - free of charge, but you have to sign in.
• Boston Globe Book Reviews
• LA Times Book Reviews
• Booklist - children's, young adult, and adult book reviews
• Boston Book Review
• Library Journal Digital - excellent source of book reviews.
  

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 Booklists and Book Suggestions

• BookBrowser - "the guide for avid readers" - A collection of fiction reading lists arranged by author, genre, location and series.
• The Book Spot - best seller lists, awards, book reviews, reading lists, and more
• If You Like... - From the Hennepin County, Minnesota, a database to help patrons find fiction books similar to ones they know they like.
• Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists
• Oprah's Book Club List
• Book Page - a national review publication
• Books discussed on National Public Radio - maintained by Amazon.com
• Book Reporter - read about new books, your favorite authors, and participate in book discussions.
• Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature - index to useful places on the net on writers and poets, on libraries, publishers and booksellers, both of new and second hand/antiquarian books.
• BookWeb - American Booksellers Association BookWeb. Search for books, bookstores, and book related events.
• BookWire
• Malaspina Great Books - this site organizes great books into seven cultural streams (science, art, books, theatre, music, history and cinema). These cultural streams are then organized by category (i.e. science centre, art gallery, book room, theatre stage, and music hall) and then seven distinct historical (i.e. "musical") periods: Antiquity, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern.
• Reader's Advisory - reviews, awards, reading groups, reading lists, genre fiction, young adults and audio books. Maintained by the Rochester Hills Public Library
• Soon's Historical Fiction Site - collection of information and links for historical fiction.

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 Literary Criticism

• Online Literary Criticism Collection
  The IPL (Internet Public Library) Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 1005 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period.

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 Authors

• Oregon Authors Clearinghouse - a project of the Oregon Authors Committee of the Oregon Library Association
• Authors on the Web - a list of of authors with biographic sketches
• Yahoo's! Author Page - with extensive links to a wide variety of book and author related sites
• The ASCAP - the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

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 Award Winning Books

• Award Winning Books - a list of current national and international award winners, maintained by the Salt Lake County Library System
  
  
• AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information
  
  
• The John Newberry Medal
  
  
• The Randolph Caldecott Medal
  
  
• Children's Book Awards
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize
  
  
• Nobel Prize Internet Archive: Literature
  
  
• Virtual Wordsworth Awards Page

 Book Stores & Book Trade Associations

• Amazon.com Books
  Online bookstore with over 2.5 million titles.
  
  
• Powell's Book Store
  Used and new book store in Portland, Oregon. Search their inventory to see if they have the book you want.
  
  
• Barnes & Noble
  Search over a million titles, read reviews and learn about authors.
  
  
• Book Bin
  Local Corvallis bookstore.
  
  
• Borders.com
  Web site for the Borders bookstore chain.
  
  
• Advanced Book Exchange, Inc.
  Search for out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books.
  
  
• Alibris
  Great on-line store for out-of-print, used, and rare books.
  
  
• Bibliofind
  Over five million old, used and rare books listed by about 1750 booksellers from around the world.
  
  
• BookFinder.com
  
  
• WordsWorth: Online Bookstore
  
  
• Bibliocity
  Rare and collectible books.
  
  
• Browsers' Bookstore
  Local Corvallis bookstore.
  
  
• Grassroots Books
  Local Corvallis bookstore. They have information on what local bookgroups are reading.
  
  
• Oregon State University Bookstore
  Bookstore for Oregon State Univeristy.  In addition to textbooks, they carry general books on a very broad range of subjects.
  
  

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 Publishers

• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
  Links to publishers around the world.
  

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 Reading Groups

• Book Group Corner
  Readers' Companions and a Book Group Guide.
  
  
• Book Club How-to's
  Ideas for setting up a book discussion group, what to read and what kinds of questions to ask. From the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library.
• Reading Group Choices
• Reading Group Guides
• Online Chapter-A-Day Book Club - a free online book club where you may sign up for a daily
  e-mail that contains a portion of a recently published book.

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 Online Literature Resources

• Project Gutenberg
  Huge library of electronically stored books, mostly classics, that can be downloaded for free and viewed off-line.
• The Complete William Shakespeare
• The On-line Books Page
  The On-Line Books Page is a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. It includes: an index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet, pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts and special exhibits.
• Electronic Text Center
  The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 40,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 19,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, museum objects, etc.)
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
• William Blake Archive
  A hypermedia archive of the works of William Blake sponsored by the Library of Congress

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 Poetry

• PoemFinder Not available remotely
  Search for poems by author, title, poem text, or subject. Some full-text poems are included, but the results will show references for books where the poems have appeared.
  
  
• The American Verse Project
  Collaborative project assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American verse prior to 1920.
  
  
• Poetry Daily
  
  
• Academy of American Poets
  
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