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Magazines & Journals
- Academia: A Monthly Online Magazine of Academic Titles and Information - Baker & Taylor site lists academic bestsellers and upcoming titles (by subject).
- Académie Goncourt - Selects the winner of the Prix Goncourt.
- AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors - This extensive directory, maintained by Anna Belle Leiserson, a librarian at Vanderbilt Law Library, provides links to publishers and vendors. There is a helpful
subject directory, which includes
audio books and tapes,
children's literature,
rare & antiquarian,
maps & travel, and
art & architecture.
- AddALL: Book Searching and Price Comparison - Allows you to search and compare book price at over 40 bookstores. Other bookstore comparison services include SearchBiblio, Best Book Buys and A1 BookMall. Used, rare and out-of-print bookstore comparison services include BookFinder, Bibliofind, Used Book Search, Advanced Book Exchange, ISBN andAlibris. European resources include Bibliopoly, a multilingual online database of rare books for sale from the stock of leading and specialized dealers, Antiqbook from the Netherlands Antiquarian Booksellers' Network and Libri@ntichi. The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America offers a book search. And of course there's always Ebay.
- Africa Access - "Africa Access was founded in 1989 to help schools, public libraries, and parents improve the quality of their children's collections on Africa. Our online database, Africa Access Review, contains over 1000 annotations and reviews of books for children. These critiques and descriptions are written by university professors, librarians, and teachers most of whom have lived in Africa and have graduate degrees in African Studies." A search in for Sudan, for example, retrieves 26 results in Africa Access Review: Annotations and Critiques of Children's Materials on Africa, compiled and edited by Brenda Randolph. Hear about the Children's Africana Book Awards in News & Notes with Ed Gordon,, May 2, 2005.
- African Writers Series - Heinemann series of "novels, poetry, short stories and drama from across Africa. It includes work from over 65 writers from twenty different countries who address a multitude of themes."
- Alapage.com - French online book and music store
- American Association of University Presses
American Historical Association - Offers a number of Prizes & Awards
- American Library Association - Useful sections include Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Oprah Book Club Titles, Banned Book Week, and Booklist. There's also the list of Notable Books in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry selected by the Notable Books Council of the Reference and User Services Association.
- American Prospect - "Practical and convincing vision of liberal philosophy, politics, and public life." The magazine is searchable and provides an Archives, with articles listed by subject, category (i.e. Book Reviews, Film Critic etc.), author, issue and month.
- American Scientist: Scientists' Bookshelf - Comprehensive book-review section. Each issue of American Scientist contains reviews of more than 20 of the latest science books.
- American Society of Magazine Editors - Sponsors of the National Magazine Awards. There's a National Magazine Awards Database of Past Winners and Finalists
- American Spectator - With an index of full-text articles organized alphabetically by author and to table of contents with selected articles from previous issues.
- Another Magazine
- Arts & Letters Daily; an updated report of news and reviews - Published by Denis Dutton, a philosophy professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. The site provides links to various online articles and reviews for the literate websurfer on such topics as philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, trends, breakthrough, disputes, gossip. See also SciTech Daily Review, a collection of links to "intelligent, informed science and technology coverage." Ray Sawhill interviews Dutton in The gleeful contrarian(Salon, 3 November 2000). Includes archives for:
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2003
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998
- Assistive Media: Expanding the World of Reading - Created by David Erdody, a software consultant from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He describes it as an "audio-literary service for persons with print reading/access barriers." Audio Archives include:
- Colette's Gigi (100 minutes)
- Frederick and Steven Barthelme's Good Losers (50 minutes)
- Bill Joy's Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
- Malcolm Gladwell - Clicks and Mortar (33 minutes) and John Rock's Error (44 minutes).
- Association of American Publishers
- Association of American University Presses, Inc. (AAUP) - Searchable online catalog, with reviews. You can search by subject.
- Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française (ADPF) - Association for the Diffusion of French Thought, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The provide the archives of the book review Vient de Paraître back to 1999. Also available in English (version Anglaise).
Other Publications include:
- 100 books giving food for debate
- French Poetry Today
- The contemporary French Short Story
- Contemporary French Novel
- Atlantic Online - Magazine of "politics, society, the arts and culture." Provides full-text access to current and past issues of the Atlantic Monthly. Has an archive of Books and Authors Interviews. Flashbacks Index contains "thematic collections of articles from the Atlantic's past that have gained new relevance today."
- Audible - Maker of the Audible MobilePlayer, "a new technology that lets you take audio from the Internet and listen to it whenever and wherever you want." Online store has more than 10,000 hours of audio programs you can download directly to your computer and Audible MobilePlayer.
- AudioBookClub
- Authors on the Web: A Collection of Biographical Sketches - Bonnie Hanks
- Author Tracker
- Authors Guild
- AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information - Laurie D. T. Mann
- Back Issue Finder - "Marketplace for locating and selling hard-to-find, out-of-print and back issue periodicals including newspapers, magazines and comic books, as well as a wide variety of ephemera (paper collectible) items such as programs, postcards, posters and trading cards.
- Baker Street Connection: A Sherlock Holmes Collection - David Carroll's site includes the complete canon of 56 stories and 4 novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1925.
- Bancroft Prize - Awarded annually by Columbia University to the authors of distinguished works in either or both of the following categories: American History (including biography) and Diplomacy. Columbia University Libraries provides a list of Previous Winners from 1948 to the present.
- Banned Books On-line - John Mark Ockerbloom
- Based on the Book - "Compilation of over 1,200 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures." (Mid-Continent Public Library)
- Beatrice - Books, cinema, politics, journalism, biography. The Interview archive includes a diverse lot: George Plimpton, Diane Johnson and Elaine Pagels to name a few.
- Believer Magazine - Edited by Vendela Vida, Jeidi Julavits and Ed Park. This new magazine (and n+1) are the subjects of A.O. Scott's article Among the Believers in the New York Times Magazine, September 11, 2005.
- Best Book Buys - Bookstore comparison search service.
- Bibliomania - Full-text access to classic novels, non-fiction, poetry and reference works
- Bibliomysteries - Maintained by Marsha McCurley, a librarian at at Clemson University. (She also maintains Virtual Portmerion.)
- BIC's Bookish Home Page - Book Industry Communication's site "aims to provide a central focus and gateway for book industry users of the Internet."
- Bol.com - "World's most international media and entertainment store." Offers books, music, dvd/video and gifts.
- Bold Type: an online literary magazine - Fiction and non-fiction from noted and new authors and featuring a different literary theme monthly. In Bold Type: Audio a large assortment of Random House authors read from their works. (Eliza Minot reads from The Tiny One, Vikram Seth reads from An Equal Music, Bill Bryson reads from A Walk in the Woods.)
- Bonfire of Liberties: Censorship of the Humanities - Texas Humanities Resource Center.
- Book Industry Study Group - BISG "is the U.S. book industry's leading trade association for research and supply chain standards and policies." Highlights include a list of members, the Book Industry Study Group Subject headings also known as the BISAC System (Book Industry Standards and Communications) and information on ISBN-13.
- American Historical Association Book Prizes
- Audie Awards - Audio Publisher's Association
- Audiofile Earphones Award - Audiofile Magazine
- Aventis Prizes for Science Books
- AWP Award Series - Association of Writers & Writing Programs
- Bancroft Prize
- British Academy Book Prize
- Caine Prize for African Writing
- Carter G. Woodson Book Awards
- Charles Taylor Prize for Literary non-fiction
- Edgar Awards
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction - Administered by Wilfrid Laurier University
- Giller Prize - Also known as the Scotiabank Giller Prize, it is awarded to to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English.
- Governor General's Literary Awards - Canadian Council for the Arts. You can also hear Readings at the National Library of Canada.
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Hugo Awards - "Science fiction’s most prestigious award."
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - With 2008 Award longlist and Award Archive.
- John Newbery Medal
- Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
- Lukas Prize Project
- Man Booker Prize - UK
- Mercantile Library Center for Fiction Awards
- Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature - Young Adult Library Services Association
- Michigan Literary Fiction Award
- National Book Awards
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Orange Prize for Fiction
- Organization of American Historians Awards & Prizes
- Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
- Le Prix du Québec
- Prix Goncourt - France
- Pulitzer Prize
- Quill Awards - "Celebrates the best books of the year in nineteen popular categories, ranging from romance to biography to graphic novels."
- Randolph Caldecott Medal
- Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
- Whitbread Book Awards
- Blackwell's Bookshops - Oxford
- Harvard Book Store - Cambridge, Massachusetts
- John Smith & Son Bookshops - Scotland's oldest independent book retailer.
- Strand Bookstore - New York. "18 miles of books."
- BBC Books
- Book Bytes - Marylaine Block's site has annotated reading lists, columns about books, advice on finding out-of-print books and links to other resources.
- Book Design Review - Joseph Sullivan
- Bookslut
- Emerging Writers Network - Dan Wickett
- Gawker - "Source for Manhattan media and gossip."
- Book Group Corner - Bantam, Doubleday, Dell offers Readers' Companions for a number of their titles.
- The Elegant Variation: A Literary Weblog - By Mark Sarvas. See Interview with Mark Sarvas of "The Elegant Variation" and Interview with Mark Sarvas from The Elegant Variation by Simon Owens
- Book Cover Archive
- "For the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design."
- Booknoise - "Online brochure for a book, one that helps writers find an audience and an audience find a book." (There are a number of full-text pieces by John Seabrook.)
- Book TV - C-SPAN covers History, Children's Books, BookNotes, and Public Lives and provides a two month archive.
- BookCrossing - Global book club.
- BookFinder - This "comparison shopping agent" searches top bookstores for best price (new, used & antiquarian).
- Booklist Center - David Wilson Taylor, a retired librarian, has compiled this extensive collection of best book lists and award winners. There is a Titles by Category section.
- Booklover's Repair Kit: 1st Aid for Home Libraries - By Estelle Ellis, Wilton Wiggins, Douglas Lee. Available at Amazon.com, which supplies photographs of the contents. The kit consists of the The Booklover's Repair Manual, 160p, illus. and the following: pH-neutral adhesive, document-cleaning pad, transparent mending tape, mounting and hinging tape, red cotton library tape, bone folder, art gum eraser, soft white eraser, Pink Pearl eraser, microspatula, dust cloth, silicone release paper, binder's board, archival mat board, Canson paper, cotton gloves, bamboo brush, china bristle brush, artist brushes, #2 and #4, knitting needle, plastic cutting board, bulldog clamps, and archival permanent glue stick.
- Booknoise - What's interesting: Elizabeth Royte's annotated bibliography of books that helped her write The Tapir's Moring Bath.
- Booknotes - C-SPAN presents "America's finest authors on reading, writing, and the power of ideas." You can listen to programs in their entirety in the Archives or read the Transcripts.
- BookRadio - Audio interviews with authors.
- Books for Academics - Hosted by University of Exeter, it links directly to academic publishers' catalogues and includes a new online bookshop and database of the best titles published within the last 12 months.
- Books@Random Library - Literary guides for reading groups.
- BookSense - National
marketing campaign on behalf of the independent bookstores of America. Book Sense Bestseller List is based on sales from over 350 independent bookstores across America. Book Sense 76 Picks is a bi-monthly selection of eclectic new books chosen by independent booksellers.
- Bookstores: Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.,
by Lynne Tillman, 1999.
- Booktrust - Sponsored by Arts Council England.
- BookWeb - American Booksellers Association has a Directory listing "2,200 Booksellers, complete with URLs, email addresses and descriptions." Lists bookstores by specialty.
- BookWire - "Bookwire index is the most comprehensive, easiest to use guide to the book resources of the Internet, containing more than 5,000 categorized links to book sites around the world."
- BookZone - "Home of the Net's most interesting books."
- Borzoi Reader
- Boston Book Review
- Boston Review
- Bowdoin Magazine
- Brill's Content
- British Academy Book Prize
- Brown Alumni Magazine - With full-text Archvies back to May 1995.
- Buy.com: Books - "Internet book superstore"
- Canadian Literature Archive - University of Manitoba
- Canadian Publishers’ Records Database - "1400 records, including 350 publishers, 1000 archival collections and 70 institutions."
- Center for the Book in the Library of Congress - Provides links to Book-related organizations and programs and to Book Fairs and Other Literary Events.
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Audio - List of newscasts and programs that you can hear on RealAudio. They also have a Video list. See Writers and Company, Between the Covers, The Arts Today and Ideas.
- Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing
- Centre National du Livre (CNL)
- Chapter One - Reviews and first chapters of books in the Washington Post. (See also the Houston Chronicle's Chapter One, WNYC's Reading Room and the New York Times' First Chapters.)
- Chronicle of Higher Education Site Sampler - Selection of recent articles.
- Common-place - With archives
- Columbia Magazine - Magazine of Columbia University. Archive of issues back to Summer 2000.
- Commonplace Book - Part of W. Frederick Zimmerman's Internet Book Information Center.
- Commentary - "The Commentary began as a column written and distributed by Joseph Planta, via e-mail in June 1999. He wrote over six hundred columns delving into such current affairs subjects as politics, show business, and anything and everything in-between. In September 2003, The Commentary was re-launched as a web-based publication, also featuring guest contributions." Online interviews include:
- David Hackett Fischer - 9 December 2008. Fischer is the author of Champlain's Dream. [22:29]
- Amitav Ghosh - 18 November 2008. Ghosh is the author of Sea of Poppies (Viking, 2008), shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
- Conjunctions - Bard College publication is a "Web forum of innovative writing." In the Audio Vault are readings from Robert Olen Butler, Philip Roth, William Gass, Mary Gaitskill, Rick Moody, among others.
- The Connection - Dick Gordon hosts this WBUR, Boston (NPR) show. With archives and Audio Content Based Search. Other WBUR shows include Here and Now and On Point.
- Cortland Review - Literary magazine with RealAudio interviews
- Daily Telegraph - UK publication has a book section. (Free registration)
- Del Rey Books
- Diane Rehm Show - National Public Radio site includes audio files for this week's programs and for past shows in the archives. There are book lists for Readers' Review back to 1996.
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas - Full-text of the out-of-print book edited by Philip P. Wiener, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74. Topics include nature, humanity, art, history, politics, religion and philosophy, math and logic. Made available by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.
- Ebay: Books - Check the box that says search title and description.
- Eastgate Systems - "Primary source for serious hypertext."
- Electronic Reader's Advisor - Annotated collection of links for readers from New York Public Library.
- E-STREAMS: Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science - "Collaborative venture between H. Robert Malinowsky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and YBP Library Services."
- The Fantastic in Art and Fiction - Created by the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections materials from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Featured Authors - New York Times special sections on various authors consist of book reviews, related articles and audio clips for some 200 writers including Paul Auster,
A.S. Byatt,
Ernest Hemingway,
Oscar Hijuelos,
Alice Hoffman,
Ted Hughes,
Milan Kundera,
Doris Lessing,
Federico García Lorca,
Vladimir Nabokov,
Sylvia Plath,
Annie Proulx,
Richard Rhodes and
Salman Rushdie.
- Federation of European Publishers
- Feminist Bookstores Index
- Festival International de la Bande Dessinee - Angouleme, France. Largest comics festival in the world outside Japan. For more, see BBC story Comic lovers flock to French festival 31 January 2003.
- Fiction Set in Vermont - Compiled by Ann McKinstry Micou, and presented at the 2006 Vermont Library Conference.
- FindArticles.com - Free online article-search service allows you to search for (and read) articles published over the last 1 to 2 years in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. You can view publications by subject or by name. For more, see Gale Full-Text Content Free on LookSmart? Well, Some of It … in Information Today NewsBreaks.
- First Lines - "Your challenge is to name the book given the first line. The books are divided into categories which may help you identify them." John Dobbins (Electronics Engineer) & Mary Ochs (Reference Librarian) Cornell University
- French Culture: Books
- Galactic Central - Phil Stephensen-Payne's bibliography of science fiction and fantasy authors. It also includes a list of fiction magazines.
- Gaslight - Internet discussion list which reviews one story a week from the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919. There is a Chronological List of fiction and non-fiction e-texts and an Author List.
- Genrefluent: the world of genre fiction - Book reviews by Diana Tixier Herald, author of Genreflecting.
- Granta Publications - "New writing, fiction, personal history, reportage and inquiring journalism."
- Great Books Foundation - Also includes information on Junior Great Books.
- Great Books Lists - Robert Teeter
- H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences - Online scholarly review journal. Searchable and browsable, with archives back to 1998.
- HarperAudio - Caedmon - Complete audio catalog, searchable by author, title or ISBN; includes over 350 sound clips (each running between 8-12 minutes)
- Harvard Crimson Online - Provides the same articles featured in its print counterpart, plus an interactive calendar of events, student forums, and selected links to other regional and world information. There is also an archive to back issues from June 1997 onward.
- Harvard Magazine - With full-text Back Issues starting in 1996. See also Selected online publications.
- Heart of the Southwest: A Selective Bibliography of Novels, Stories and Tales Laid in Arizona and New Mexico & Adjacent Lands - By Lawrence Clark Powell. (Originally published in 1959 by Dawson's Book Shop.) Provided by the University of Arizona Library's Southwest Electronic Text Center, which has also digitized Powell's A Southwestern Century: A Bibliography of One Hundred Books of Non Fiction about the Southwest.
- Herb Caen (1916-1997) - Tributes to the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle who died in 1997.
- The Independent: Books
- Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) - Offers a Member Directory, a glossary of Book Terminology and Description Definitions.
- International Publishers Association - With Members Directory and Links to Members Webpages.
- Internet Book Information Center - W. Frederick Zimmerman's "personal, selective, opinionated guide to books and to book-related resources on the Internet."
- isbndb.com - You can query ISBNdb.com API for the location of source MARC records for any book in the database.
- ISBN Search - Glenn Fleishman's site allows you to enter a book's ISBN (international standard book number) and search from a selected list of bookstores.
- Jacket Magazine
- Johns Hopkins Magazine - With full archives.
- Kalima - United Arab Emirates-based nonprofit. "Every year we will select 100 candidate titles of classic, contemporary and modern titles from around the world to be translated into Arabic." There are pages in English. See first list of 100 candidate titles selected November 21, 2007.
- Kelly Writers House - University of Pennsylvania offers Webcast Archives with readings by Slavoj Zizek (9/18/00), Kenneth Goldsmith (9/21/00), Rich Moody (9/28/00), John Updike, 4/13/00, Robert Creeley (4/10/00), Thalia Field (3/22/00) and Grace Paley (2/15/00).
- Ken & JoAnn Savage Handcrafted Furniture - With a collection of furniture for the Library.
- Kiriyama Prize - "Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize has been awarded every year since 1996. It promotes books that will contribute to greater understanding and cooperation among the peoples and nations of the Pacific Rim and South Asia." Provides lists of current and previous winners and finalists. The 2004 fiction winner is Shan Sa's The Girl Who Played Go, a page-turning novel set in war-torn Manchuria in the 1930's. The nonfiction winner is Inga Clendinnen's Dancing with Strangers, a fascinating history of the initial years of contact between the Aboriginal Australians and British settlers.
- Land-Grant College Review
- Lawrence of Arabia Factfile - Maintained by Jeremy Wilson, T. E. Lawrence's authorised biographer.
- Leonardo Reviews (ISSN:1559-0429) - "Scholarly review service published since 1968 by Leonardo, The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology."
- Levenger - "Tools for serious readers."
- Libération - Livres
- Library Association - UK association for librarians and information managers. With Medals & Awards page.
- Library Journal
- Library of Congress Online Catalog
- LibriVox - Volunteers read public domain books. See Catalogue. Contents so far (November 2005): Baum, L. Frank. The Road to Oz; Christie, Agatha. The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from the Underground; Irving, Washington. Old Christmas; James, Henry. An International Episode; London, Jack. Call of the Wild ; Poe, Edgar Allan. The Raven ; Shelley, Mary W. Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus; and Wodehouse, PG. Psmith in the City.
- Literary Calendar - P. Timothy Ervin's "portal to literature".
- Literary Festivals - Database of UK literary festivals maintained by the British Council.
- Literary Locales - "Picture links to the places that figure in the lives and writings of famous authors." (San Jose State University Department of English).
- Literary Traveler - Covers New England, the South, The West, Hemingway, Europe and Special Features. With Author Index and information on Tour Operators.
- Literary Web: New Dimensions in Literature - "Geared toward readers of fiction and poetry as well as those who write it, and those who teach it."
- Literature Awards
- Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998 - Index created from the monthly Books Received column in Locus Magazine, edited by Charles N. Brown. The contents of anthologies, single-author collections, and magazines are added by William G. Contento, who also wrote the programs used to generate these pages.
- London Review of Books
- Long Tail - Subtitled "A Public Diary on the Way to a Book" and created by Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine.
- Los Angeles Times: Books - With selections for Best Fiction, Best Nonfiction and Best Children's Books.
- Lukas Prize Project - "Established in 1998, the Lukas Prize Project honors the best in American nonfiction writing. Co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, and sponsored by the family of the late Mark Lynton, a historian and senior executive at the firm Hunter Douglas in the Netherlands, three awards are given annually."
- MacDowell Colony - Oldest and largest artist colony in the United States located in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
- Man Booker Prize
- Margaret Atwood Information - Official site
- Master Works of Western Civilization - Mason West's "annotated compilation of lists of major works recommended by Drs. Adler and Eliot, Charles Van Doren, Anthony Burgess, Clifton Fadiman, the Easton Press, and many others."
- Mississippi Review
- Mississippi Writers Page - University of Mississippi English Department site provides biographies of Mississippi writers, information about their books and other publications, and bibliographies of other information sources (including literary criticism).
- Modern Library: 100 Best - Modern Library Board has selected and ranked what it considers to be the best novels published in the English language since 1900.
- MSNBC 'Today's Books'
- MysteryNet - Offers Online Mysteries and Timeline and Mystery Greats. With site map. With information on the Edgar Allan Poe Awards and other Mystery Awards.
- Mystery Writers of America - Sponsors of the Edgar Awards.
- Nancy Pearl - Home page of librarian who inspired the librarian action figure. She has a monthly television program - Book Lust with Nancy Pearl - and has regular appearances on NPR. See also Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Wiki and Nancy Pearl's Picks at the Pima County Public Library.
- National Book Critics Circle - Annual awards for the finest books published in English.
- National Book Foundation - Sponsor of the National Book Awards
- Natural History Book Service - U.K.
- National Magazine Award - American Society of Magazine Editors
- National Portrait Gallery - London. Has a Picture Library Search with information on approximately 10,000 works in which you can search for artist, sitter of by title or by NPG number. (In Advanced Search you can restrict your search to images available on web site.) There is an alphabetical list of artists, as well as an alphabetical list of sitters. Authors include Charlotte Bronte, P.D. James, Philip Larkin, Somerset Maugham, Dame Iris Murdoch, and Dorothy Sayers. You can do a portrait search by NPG number or do an advanced search by profession.
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature - Biennial award sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and World Literature Today.
- New Books Service (NBS) - Library and Archives, Canada. "Users may browse this month's new releases by subject, search for recent books, locate Canadian booksellers to order titles, search a database of Canadian publishers and connect to the AMICUS database for a broader search of LAC's complete online catalogue."
- New Criterion - "Now co-edited by the art critic Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by Mr. Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman. A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion has emerged as America’s foremost voice of critical dissent." Has Indexes and Author Bios and some full-text.
- National Writers Union - With briefs for the New York Times and Jonathan Tasini (president of the National Writers Union) in Tasini v. New York Times in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals decision holding that publishers must pay freelance writers whenever they include an article that was originally published on paper in an electronic database.
- New Statesman: Books
- New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA) - "Representing 350 independent bookstores in New England and New York."
Sponsors of the New England Book Awards.
- New York Magazine - Provides cover story, columns, and archives.
- New York Review of Books - Fully searchable by key word, author, and books under review. The archives provides a complete searchable index of the magazine's contents from 1963 to the present. The site currently contains the full text of all pieces published in the Review since November 1996.
- New York Society Library - Sections of interest include Archives of Library Notes, New York City Book Awards and NYSL Travels with descriptions of literary tours of Berlin, Dublin, Prague, London and Paris.
- New Yorker Magazine - Provides full-text access to selected articles from the current issue, including book, movie, theatre and music reviews. See also its The Year in Covers: 2007. Relevent articles include:
- Future Reading: Digitization and its Discontents - By Anthony Grafton, New Yorker, November 5, 2007.
- New Yorker Magazine: Online Only - Has a monthly Fiction Podcast with fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
"Each month we ask a current fiction writer to choose a story from the magazine's archive to read and discuss."
- Open Secrets (37:39) - December 17, 2007. Jhumpa Lahiri reads William Trevor's short story "A Day" first published in the magazine in December 1993.
- Waiting (32:57) - November 12, 2007. Antonya Nelson reads Mavis Gallant's short story "When We Were Nearly Young," originally published in the New Yorker in 1960.
- Chapter and Verse (21:57) - October 15, 2007. Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Gospel According to Mark," originally published in the New Yorker on October 23, 1971.
- Talking Pictures (33:41) - September 17 2007. Barbara Rosenblatt reads and Nell Freudenberger discusses Grace Paley's short story "Somewhere Else," originally published in the magazine on October 23, 1978.
- Urban Planning (17:50) - July 9, 2007. Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme's short story "I Bought a Little City" first published in the New Yorker in 1974.
- The Dating Game (17:38) - June 11, 2007. Edwidge Danticat discusses Junot Díaz's 1995 short story "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)," first published in the magazine in 1995. The story is read by Junot Diaz.
- Listen and Learn (23:12) - August 13, 2007. George Saunders reads Isaac Babel's short story "You Must Know Everything" written in 1915 and published in the magazine in 1966.
- Reunions (12:00) - December 25, 2006. Richard Ford reads John Cheever's story "Reunion" first published in the New Yorker on October 27, 1962.
- Online Only
- Boston Globe: Books
- Guardian Books
- Authors
- Genre
- Podcasts
- Review
- The Independent: Books - London
- Le Monde des Livres - Book section from the major French newspaper Le Monde.
- New York Times
- New York Times: Books
- Book Review Podcasts
- New York Times Book Review - With back issues, reviews from the daily paper and a searchable archive of book reviews from January 1, 1996 to the present. It also offers web-only material including reviews and articles from the archives, Audio Interviews and Readings
- First Chapters from selected books
- Books Columns
- Best Seller List
- complete list of business book reviews - arranged alphabetically by title
- Children's Book Reviews - since January 1997, arranged alphabetically by author
- Wall Street Journal
- Five Best - Experts lists five best books in his or her field.
- Wall Street Journal - Writer's Block column of book reviews
- The Munro Doctrine of Humor by David Propson, Wall Street Journal, January 19, 2008. Review of The Unbearable Saki by Sandie Byrne .
- Washington Post: Books
- Newsweek - Searchable with Site Index. You can also search Time.com (which has an archives) from 1994 to present.
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Northwest Passages: Canadian Literature Online - Collection of links to Canadian literature resources (publishers, authors, Canadian studies).
- Le Nouvel Observateur - Paris weekly news magazine. Bibliobs is "le site littéraire de NouvelObs.com."
- Octavo: Digital Rare Books - "Preserves rare books and manuscripts using advanced digital tools and formats."
- "One Book" Reading Promotion Projects - Library of Congress provides links to community reading projects, organized by state.
- 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women - Women's online forums and lists were canvassed to select the best 20th century fiction by women. (Feminista!,, vol. 2, no. 3/4.)
- On-line Books Page - Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, the site is searchable and has over 10,000 listings.
- 150 Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century - "Consolidation of four sources' lists: Harvard Bookstore's Top 100 Recommended Titles, Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, Koen Book Distributors' top 100 Books of the Past Century, and Library Journal's 150 20th-century Most Influential Fiction." Provided by the Friendswood Public Library, Friendswood, Texas.
- Online Originals - Online publishing company distributes book-length works in digital form, using e-mail for both orders and delivery. 45 tiles are listed with synopsis, sample chapters, and biographical information on the authors. A free title is provided each month. Each work you order costs US$7.
- Open Letters - " A dormant magazine of first person writing in the form of personal correspondence." Archives of 106 letters and 6 conversations published daily on the world-wide web between June 19, 2000 and January 5, 2001 and edited by Paul Tough.
- Oprah's Book Club - With Latest Selection and Past Selections.
- Outside Magazine - Provides access to full-text articles in issues from the last two years in the Archives. There are also archives for 1999 issues and back issues to February 1995. Other highlights include Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer's account of the disastrous Mt. Everest expedition from the September 1996 issue and Summit Journal 1996.
- Overbooked - "A web site (formerly known as Book Links) for ravenous readers. Overbooked specializes in literary and genre fiction information."
- Oxford University Gazette - With back issues (1993 to present). See also the Blueprint , the university news publication, also with back issues
- Patrick O'Brian Page - W.W. Norton's site includes reading group guide, newsletter and back issues, and information about mailing lists
- PEN American Center - "Membership association of prominent literary writers and editors."
- Ploughshares - Emerson College literary journal. Selections from Past Issues are updated daily by random computer rotation.
- Poetry Daily - "Anthology of contemporary poetry which each day brings you a new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print." Provides searchable archive, indexed by poet and title
- Poets & Writers Online - Offers a searchable Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers.
- Postmodern Culture - Current issue only
- Powells Books - Their Original Essays are interesting. See, for example, How I Wrote Life of Pi by Yann Martel and Delaying the Real World by Colleen Kinder.
- Prize Reprise: Literary Awards on the Web - Created by Laura Johnson, a Research Librarian at the Suburban Library System Reference Service.
- Public Interest - Public Radio WAMU host Kojo Nnamdi covers politics, science, popular culture, social issues. With information and audio files for this week's shows and previous shows back to February 1988. Offers a Reading List.
- Gallimard - French publisher's catalog
- Publishers' Catalogues Home Pages - Peter Scott, Northern Lights Internet Solutions, Saskatoon, Canada.
- Publishers Weekly
- PubList - Directory of information about more than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers around the world.
- Pulitzer Prizes
- Ralph: the Review of Literature, Philiosophy and the Humanities - Provides access to the Archives as far back as Winter, 1995/1996 and to the Tables of Content, with full-text articles, for 1998, 1997, 1996 and 1995.
- RedLightGreen - Research Libraries Group catalog contains "130 million books for education and research; and it links students back to their campus libraries for the books they select."
- RealCities - Real Books - First chapters from books reviewed in Knight Ridder newspapers.
- RIF/T: An Electronic Space for Poetry, Prose, and Poetics - Electronic Poetry Center
- Rizzoli Bookstore - New York
- Robert F. Kennedy Book Award - "Presented annually to the book which "most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes – his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity". Provides list of Winners from 1980 to the present.
- Roland Collection of Videos & Films on Art - "Work of 230 film makers from 25 different countries and consists of more than 640 films and videos on art available worldwide." Writers Talk: Ideas of our Time consists of 106 streaming video clips of authors discussing their work.
- Royal Society - UK's national academy of science, they manage the Aventis Prizes for Science Books which "celebrate the very best in popular science writing for adults and children." Has list of Previous Winners
- Salon Magazine: Books - With Archives back to 1995. Many sections available to subscribers only. Authors recommend favorite books in Book Bag (with Archives) and there are author interviews.
- Salon.com Audio - Spoken word recordings of works by such authors as J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Mike Loew, Noam Chomsky, Bill Hicks, Anais Nin, Garofalo & Stiller, David Sedaris, Eileen Myles, T.S. Eliot, Gita Mehta, Molly Ivins, Dennis Miller, Charles Bukowksi, Al Franken, James Joyce, Mikki Halpin, Robert Frost and Bob Costas.
- Savvy Traveler Bookshelf - Realaudio interviews with travel writers.
- Scholars in the Stacks - "Consists of a dozen personal essays by Harvard scholars, in diverse disciplines, explaining their work in Widener and other University libraries, and their affection for this great academic resource. Reprinted online by Harvard Magazine from the Fall 1995 (Vol. 6, No. 3) Harvard Library Bulletin. Orginially titled Widener Library: Voices from the Stacks, this special issue was edited by Kenneth E. Carpenter and Richard F. Thomas.
- SearchBiblio - Fast search and price comparison engine for used, rare, and out-of-print books.
- Seeing Ear Theatre - Sci-Fi Channel offers featured readings. Hear H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror, Robert Heinlein's Universe and Michael Straczynski's City of Dreams.
- Selective Index of Detective Fiction - Rodney Yoder provides "links to an annotated bibliography for a collection of British writers of mystery novels and short stories, mainly from the Golden Age of the early part of this century. For each author, a brief biography and list of works is given, and more information on each individual book or story is available at that point (including alternate titles, publication information, and in some cases a plot summary and review)".
- SHARP Web - Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP); links to projects, special collections, scholarly societies, online exhibits, and teaching resources.
- Sherlockian.net - Extensive collection of links to Sherlock Holmes resources maintained by Chris Redmond.
- Shifted Librarian - Jenny Levine, creator of the Librarian's Site du Jour, one of the first librarian sites on the Web.
- SimonSays: Audiobooks - Simon & Schuster. With an Author List and Reading Guides.
- Site de libraires professionnels du livre d'occasion, anciens et modernes - M. Pascal Chartier. "589 librairies, 3 060 687 livres d'occasion, anciens et modernes." The Annuaire électronique is searchable by region, name and specialty.
- Smithsonian Magazine
- Smithsonian: American Writing and Literature
- Society of Authors - U.K. association for writers administers a number of literary awards and grants.
- Soon's Historical Fiction Site - Soon Y. Choi
- Southwest Books of the Year - Tucson-Pima Public Library
- Spectator Magazine
- Spectator Books
- Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers - Has a collection of library furniture.
- Time.com - Searchable archives from 1994 to present. You can also view issues by cover.
- 221b Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes - Michael Sherman
- Thrilling Detective - Detectives in books, film, radio, tv, comics.
- Tin House - Literary quarterly
- Today in Literature - "Small independent publication about the great writers, books and events in literary history. Every day we publish a new biographical story that offers annecdotes and insights (often quite amusing, I might add) into the lives and works of writers famous and infamous, classic and contemporary, including novelists, poets, dramatists and critics."
- Under the Covers Book Reviews: Books Worth Reading Past Bedtime - Over 3,400 book reviews, organized by genre, subject, author, title, publication date, review date and reviewer.
- University of Chicago Magazine - With Archives from February 1998.
- University of Chicago Press - Provides Excerpts and online essays.
- Urban Desires - "A cultural oasis for weary Internet travelers." E-zine published 18 issues from 1994-1997.
- USA Today: Bookshelf - Bestsellers, book excerpt, reviews, and book news.
- US ISBN Agency - Has information on the switch to the 13 digit ISBN: Are You Ready for ISBN-13? . "On January 1, 2007, the book industry will begin using 13 digit ISBNs to identify all books in supply chain." They provide a ISBN-13 Online Converter.
- Virtual Library: Publishers - J.P. Bowen
- Voices From the Smithsonian Associates - "Online streaming programs featuring lectures and discussions by world renowned scholars, performers and authors." With Online Programs Topical Index. Authors include Jill Ker Conway, Pat Conroy, P. D. James, Walter Mosley, Calvin Trillin and Tom Wolfe.
- WATCH File: Writers, Artists and Their Copyright Holders - "Database containing primarily, but not exclusively, the names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom." Maintained jointly by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Reading.
- WNYC Reading Room - With Archive.
- Web de Sol: Locus of Literary Art
- What Should I Read Next? - Database of books chosen by readers.
- What's Next - Kent District Library in Michigan provides this database which will search for books in series (A "series" is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits."
- Wired for Books - Lectures, peoms, stories, many in RealAudio. (Ohio University'sTelecommunications Center).
- Whitbread Book Awards - Contemporary British writing awards in the categories of Poetry, Biography, Novel, First Novel, Children's Book of the Year and Book of the Year. The awards are announced in January. With a list of Past Winners.
- WNYC - Has a collection of First Chapters from books discussed on WNYC as well as audio archive of books recently discussed.
- Wordsworth Books - Cambridge (Mass.) bookstore provides a section on book awards.
- Worldcat - Find items in libraries near you. Catalog contains 1.2 billion items.
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography which attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (2,109 unedited, 778 fully edited and encoded) by 1,394 authors. You can search the full-text. Wright "listed a total of 2,923 titles in adult fiction, including "novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, in prose" (from the introduction), and inventoried 18 American libraries for holdings. This compilation is part of his three-volume set listing American fiction from 1774 through 1900, and is still considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries."
- Writer's Almanac - Garrison Keillor's daily program of poetry and history on Minnesota Public Radio includes searchable one year archive with RealAudio.
- Writer's Digest - Site highlights include
the Big Guide to Guidelines, a searchable database of more than 1,000 book and magazine editors' guidelines for writers, and the Hot List, which ranks the most intriguing and exciting places to sell your writing.
- Writers Guild of America - With information on Awards including nominees for TV/Radio and Screenplay awards.
- Yahoo! - Authors - Includes categories for Mystery, Children's Books and Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- Zoetrope: All-Story - Has a collection of live story readings.