*Sites marked with an asterisk are especially good!

Series Information
Need to know which book is next? Check out these links!

• What's Next: Books in a Series by KDL*
• Books in Series by the Nebraska Library Commission
• Internet Book List

"I need a Good Book"

• LibraryThing* (Do a search by tag to find similar books!)
• Goodreads*
• Whichbook.net

Bestsellers

• ALA Banned Books: Banned Books information from the American Library Association
• BookBrowser: Browse fiction and nonfiction books, book reviews, upcoming titles, and more
• The Booklist Center: The Web's largest collection of book award lists
• Booklist Magazine: Find book reviews and feature articles through this ALA resource
• BookPage: Book reviews and author interviews
• BookSpot: Book information of all kinds. The ultimate one-stop resource for booklovers!
• BookWire: Inside the book business
• Compulsive Reader: Book Reviews
• Fiction-L Booklists: Categorized booklists compiled by the readers of Fiction_L
• Genrefluent: The World of Genre Fiction
• If You Like...: Then you might like some of the titles in this database from Hennepin County Library
• Internet Book List: Browse 10,000 titles by author, title, or series
• Literary Traveler: Follow in the footsteps of your favorite authors
• New York Times on the Web Book Section
• Overbooked: Specializes in literary and genre fiction
• Reader Robot: Matches readers to books through Q&A
• Reviews of Books

Book Award Winners

• Bookawardsonline.com
• American Library Association Notable Books
• Man Booker Prizes (British)
• National Book Awards
• National Book Critics Circle Awards
• PEN/Faulkner Awards
• Pulitzer Prize

Reading Guides

• Book Browse Reading Guides
• Reading Group Guides
  

Mystery

• Stop, You're Killing Me*: "A Site to die for...If you love mystery books!"
• Cluelass: Find out about new mysteries, conventions, booksellers, and more
• Crime and Mystery Fiction Journal: Book digests, reviews, author profiles, and mystery events
• Historical Mystery Fiction: Searchable by authors and historical period
• The Mystery Reader: Mystery reviews, features, and author interviews
• Mystery Readers International: The largest mystery fan/reader organization in the world!
• Mystery Writers of America
  
• The Thrilling Detective Web Site: Celebrate the detectives of the world's most memorable mysteries

Romance

• All About Romance*: The Back-Fence for Lovers of Romance Novels
• The Romance Reader: Romance reviews, features, and author interviews
• Romance Writers of America

Science Fiction /Fantasy

• Locus Magazine: News, reviews, resources, and perspectives of science fiction, fantasy and horror
• The New England Science Fiction Association, Inc.
• SF Site: Science Fiction/Fantasy reviews, author interviews, conference information and more
• Science Fiction and Fantasy World: Check here for news, reviews, author information, and more
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Historical Fiction

• Historical Mystery Fiction: Searchable by authors and historical period
• Historical Novel Society
• Maiden's Crown: New releases, reading group guides, and author spotlights

Free Text and Audio Books on the Internet

Free Online Audio books Free Digitized Books

• Overdrive: the MCLINC libraries subscription to over 2,000 downloadable audio books
• LibriVox: books read by voluntary contributors
• Wikisource: The Free Library – is an online collection of free content source texts built by its contributors
• Gutenberg: a huge list of audio books (some read by computers)
• The Spoken Alexandria Project and Telltale Weekly: poems and stories, some delivered in weekly installments
• Storynory: iPod-Ready Stories for Kids

Free Electronic/Digitized Books to Read on your Computer

• NetLibrary: a part of the state-funded POWER Library. You can also find NetLibrary books in our online catalog.
• Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts: public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy
• The Bartleby Library: unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
• Bibliomania: Over 2,000 classic texts, plus book notes, summaries, author biographies and other information.
• DearReader.Com: This e-mail service sends two or three chapters of a book, one section a day.
• Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia: an internet-accessible collection of SGML and XML texts
• eServer.org: an alternative niche for quality work. It offers 44 collections on diverse topics, with over 31,000 works available.
• Google Books: You can search within the text of the “full view” books that Google has digitized"
• Internet Classics Archive: A library of over 400 classic works with access made possible by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
• Internet Public Library maintains a list of many specialized resources in addition to many mentioned here.
• National Academies Press: reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council
• Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania: Online books, including books by women, banned books, and prize winners
  
• Project Gutenberg: the Internet's oldest producer of over 20,000 free electronic books
• SearchEbooks.com
• Sherlock Holmes Resources