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All About Books and Reading!
General Websites
AllReaders
Classifies books based on plot, setting, character, and writing style. If you know what kind of book you like, you can find other authors who write similar stories. |
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Based on the Book
A compilation of book titles, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. Browse by movie title, year, book title, and/or author. |
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Book Glutton
A social community where you can read books found in the public domain and discuss them in groups. Annotate your thoughts right on the pages of the book and set your comments to public to open them up for discussion. |
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Bookspot
A free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. Featured sites are hand-selected by BookSpot.com editors and organized into intuitive categories, such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news and more. |
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Genrefluent
The world of genre fiction from the author of "Genreflecting", Diana Trixier Herald. |
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Goodreads
Goodreads is the largest social network for readers in the world. Goodreads members recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they've read and would like to read, form book clubs and much more.
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LibraryThing
An online service to help people catalog their books easily. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books. Has a Book Suggester and a Book Unsuggester! |
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Overbooked
Online since 1994, Overbooked is a resource for "ravenous readers". Like a good library, Overbooked provides access to all kinds of book related information. |
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Author Bibliographies and Series Order
Provo City Library Book Series
A collection of the most requested book series at the Provo City Library. |
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Book Reporter
Over 10,000 Author Bibliographies. Browse by author name to see a complete list in order by publication date. |
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Fantastic Fiction
Bibliographies for over 25,000 authors. Use the browse by author name, or use the search for a list of books organized by series. |
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Internet Book List
Goal to provide a comprehensive and easily accessible database of books and author information. |
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SciFan.com
Author bibliographies and series information for Fantasy and Science Fiction authors. |
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Stop You're Killing Me
Mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books with nearly 2,200 authors. Books are listed in chronological series order with non-series book list underneath. |
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Book Awards
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Indies Choice Book Awards
The Indies Choice Book Awards reflect the spirit of independent bookstores and the IndieBound movement.
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The Man Booker Prize
Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company, finances this award. It is given annually for the best full length novel by an author from the UK, a Commonwealth, or South Africa. In 2002 it became known as the Man Booker Award.
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National Book Award
A consortium of book publishing groups gives this award annually for the best fiction in the United States. This award was established in 1950.
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National Book Critics Circle
A panel of critics and authors give this award annually in five different categories, fiction being one of them. This award was established in 1974.
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Nobel Prize for Literature
A series of annual awards provided for by the will of Alfred Nobel, which recognizes outstanding contributions for the benefit of mankind in six areas. For literature, the prize is for the author’s entire body of work.
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PEN/Faulkner Award
This award was founded in 1980 by writers to honor their peers and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the U.S. It is named in honor of William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers.
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Pulitzer Prize for Literature
Awarded annually since 1917 and named for newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The Fiction Award is given annually for fiction in book form by an American author and preferably dealing with American life.
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Book Clubs
Book Club Websites
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Book Browse
Devoted to current fiction and nonfiction books. Contains information for starting a book club, including hundreds of discussion guides “with a substantial excerpt and multiple reviews of each book”. Also features interviews with authors, bestseller lists, discussion forums, and more. |
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Book Clubs Resource
Book-Clubs-Resource.com is a complete guide to book clubs and reading groups with an outstanding collection of links and information for readers. |
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Oprah's Book Club
Read along with Oprah and millions of other readers! Get in depth book summaries and discussion questions for your book clubs, learn about the authors, and more. |
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Random House Reading Guides
Hundreds of titles (all published by Random House) are grouped into themes, including African American, books made into movies, nonfiction, historical fiction, women, short stories and essays, biography, and young adult. |
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Reader’s Circle
“Reader’s Circle is a free public directory that specializes in listings for book clubs and reader’s circles. Anyone may post a listing or search for a group by zip code — all for free.” |
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Reading Groups Guides
This site was “built especially for reading groups, providing them with all they need to make their book club experience better than ever”. |
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Book Club Sets to Check Out
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| Provo City Library Book Club Sets |
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Orem Public Library Book Discussion Kits |
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Book Databases
Book Lists
| Provo City Library Booklists
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| Other Book Lists
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Book Recommendation Engines
Provo Library Book Recommendation Service
Follow the link to a questionnaire about your reading preferences to receive a list of personalized reading recommendations from a Provo City Librarian. |
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aNobii
List books, share thoughts, meet other people interested in the same books. Find more books to read based on people with similar tastes. |
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Gnooks
Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors. |
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Hennepin County Library - Find a Good Book
Browse through booklists by genre or type in an author for a "read-alike" search. |
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LibraryThing
An online service to help people catalog their book collections easily. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. |
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Shelfari
Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers (for now). Our mission is to enhance the experience of reading by connecting readers in meaningful conversations about the published word. |
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WhichBook.net
Gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood. Instead of starting from the overwhelming choice of books available, WhichBook starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of that elusive 'good read' we are all looking for but don't quite know how to define. |
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Book Reviews
| From Magazines, Blogs, Wikis and eNewsletters
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Book Stores (Online)
Abe Books
Abe Books is the world's largest online marketplace for books. Whether it's new, used, rare, or out-of-print, you can find it here, through our community of over 13,500 independent booksellers selling 100 million books from around the globe. |
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Alibris
Connects people who love books, music, and movies to thousands of independent sellers around the world. |
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Amazon
Online shopping from the earth's biggest selection of books, magazines, music, DVDs, videos and more. |
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Barnes and Noble
Barnes and Noble.com is the Web's premier destination for Books, DVD, Music, PC & Video Games, Children's titles, Toys & Games, Gift Cards, and more. |
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Books-A-Million
Offers better prices on the books you want. Millionaire's Club members save up to 46% off bestsellers and select features and 37% off many in-stock hardcovers. Music, movies and magazines are also discounted every day.
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Powell's Books
Powell's Books is the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world. We carry an extensive collection of out of print and rare titles. |
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eBooks and eAudiobooks
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Baen Free Library
Free Science Fiction and Fantasy ebooks.
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Barnes and Noble Free eBooks
Find the best selection of Free eBooks -- Fiction, Romance, Thrillers, First in Series, and more. |
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Bartleby.com
Bartleby.com does not include as many titles as other sites, but its content and structure make it special. You will find the usual classic novels, but you will also find an impressive collection of reference books. |
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Google Books
Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search. |
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OverDrive
Download best-selling audiobooks, eBooks, and videos from OverDrive 24/7 to your computer at home, in the office, or from anywhere in the world. All you need is your library card to get started. |
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Project Gutenberg
This project provides over 10,000 free electronic books, mainly older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. |
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LibriVox
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and makes them available for downloading on their website. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. |
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OneClickdigital
Choose from a large collection of audiobooks to download to your PC. You can listen to these books directly from your PC or transfer them to a variety of personal listening devices. |
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OverDrive
Download best-selling audiobooks, eBooks, and videos from OverDrive 24/7 to your computer at home, in the office, or from anywhere in the world. All you need is your library card to get started. |
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Online Radio Shows
Resources Available Inside the Library
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Books that Check Out
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Book Sense Best Books: 125 Favorite Books Recommended by Independent Booksellers
Celebrating five years of the successful Book Sense program, the first compilation of "must-read" adult titles selected and annotated by trusted and experienced booksellers.
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Nancy Pearl, a longtime reader, book reviewer and public librarian, presents a hundred or so of her favorites in this novel guide to finding the right book for the right mood. Presented in eclectic categories of people, places and themes, each of her suggestions is accompanied by a few of her thoughts on it, a succinct plot summary and often information about the volume's prizes and print status.
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Read It and Eat: a Month-by-month Guide to Scintillating Book Club Selections and Mouthwatering Menus
Some book clubs feed the body as well as the mind. Anyone who's hosted such a gathering knows how difficult it can be to serve food appropriate to the reading if one has, as a goal, a sort of bond linking the book at hand with the dining table. Gardner offers a month-by-month reading list complete with recipes appropriate to each title.
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So Many Books, So Little Time: a Year of Passionate Reading
Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known publishing correspondent and self-described "readaholic" Sara Nelson. From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M. to Captain Underpants, the result is a personal chronicle of insight, wit, and enough infectious enthusiasm to make a passionate reader out of anybody.
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The Reading Group Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Start Your Own Book Club
This newly revised edition includes updated reading lists and bibliographies plus additional suggestions on group dynamics; organizational, administrative, and logistical issues; and discussion techniques garnered from extensive surveying of book groups. Jacobsohn covers everything from cookies and coffee to how you diplomatically deal with "the rambler".
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The New York Public Library's Books of the Century
To celebrate the library's 1895-1995 centennial, the librarians at the New York Public Library were asked which books helped shape and define the last hundred years. This book is their response: From The Time Machine by Herbert George Wells in 1895 to The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog by Ed Krol in 1992, the librarians present their 204 selections.
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Reference Books
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Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction
In this updated selection guide, the popular fiction genres of westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, and romance are not just embraced, they are defined, analyzed, and organized, with lists of notable authors, titles, and anthologies.
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Teen Genreflecting
Herald's guide covers nearly 1,400 titles and authors for popular teen genres of historical novels, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, suspense, horror, adventure, sports, romance, and contemporary novels.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:52 |
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