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Recommended Sites:  Book Lovers

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Online Tools & Bookstores | eBooks & Poetry |

Other Recommended Sites

Fiction Reading Lists | Mystery & Crime | Romance | Science Fiction | Reviews & Criticism | Discussion Groups & Guides | Young Adults | Children's | Award Winners

Online Tools & Bookstores

  • Abebooks
    Search their extensive database of used, rare and out-of-print books.
  • alibris
    Replace your favourite lost book. Search through 14 million out of print or rare books.
  • Amazon.ca
    Look for new books, old favourites, reviews, authors - over a million items to browse or buy at the largest online bookstore (Canadian version).
  • Barnes & Noble
    Another online bookstore, but more literary-focused with online reviews from the New York Review of Books.
  • Bibliofind
    Bibliofind has combined with Amazon.com to provide millions of rare, used, and out-of-print books. If it's out of print or rare check this site for an antiquarian bookseller.
  • chapters.indigo.ca
    Canada's two biggest bookstores have merged.
  • International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
    It speaks for twenty nations and 2000 leading booksellers throughout the world. Its emblem stands for integrity and professionalism in the rare book trade.
  • Library Elf
    Track your library books, manage your library loans and holds.
  • LibraryThing
    Enter what you’re reading or your whole library. It’s an easy, library-quality catalog that connects you to people who read what you do.
  • Shelfari
    An online social network for people who love books. Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books. A great tool to use to create reading lists.

eBooks & Poetry

  • Bibliomania
    An extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction.
  • Book Lust
    Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Wiki - a community for book lovers.
  • Bookyards
    A large selection of free digital books, ebooks, and journals, plus a large collection of reference materials and educational resources for your educational and personal interests. Included books, Web links, blogs, news.
  • Canadian Poetry
    A comprehensive list of Canadian poets complete with biographies, bibliographies, awards and interviews. Compiled by the University of Toronto Library.
  • Canadian Poetry Archive
    Features selected poems from over 100 early English and French language Canadian poets, including biographies.
  • Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    Note that the poetry section is not currently available.
  • Contemporary Hamilton Authors
    An author list and links as provided by Hamilton Public Library.
  • Digital Book Index
    More than 72,000 commercial and non-commericial ebooks, over 25,000 of which are free! Search or browse by subject, title or author. Search results will list available display formats which may include plain text, HTML, MS Reader, Adobe or Palm, depending on the title.
  • Google Book Search
    Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them.
  • Internet Archive
    A non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line library and archive of Web, texts and multimedia resources.
  • Literature Network
    Full-text of over 1900 classic novels and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors, all out of copyright. There is also a Shakespeare, Bible and Quotations section.
  • Live Search Books
    Microsoft's BETA release makes tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books available from their library scanning initiative, including books from the University of California, the University of Toronto, and the British Library.
  • Online Books Page
    When your local library is closed and you need to read a particular book, check this site for copyright-cleared digital texts - including Shakespeare and Dickens.
  • Open Content Alliance
    A number of organizations have donated services, facilities, tools, or funding to the OCA, in order to help build a digital archive of global content for universal access.
  • The Open Library
    The Open Library website was created by the Internet Archive to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online. It offers free web access to important book collections from around the world. Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free reading online.
  • Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books, as eBooks or eTexts, now with more than 6267 titles.
  • ReadPrint.com
    A selection of public domain novels, short stories and poems. Well organized with photos and bios of each writer. Focuses on works of the literary canon.
  • University of Virginia's E-Book Library
    Public domain ebooks formatted for the web, as well as handheld devices.
  • Words At Large
    CBC’s online destination for Canadians who love books.
  • World Digital Library
    The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Fiction Reading Lists

  • Author Yellow Pages
    AuthorYellowPages.com is a searchable directory of author Web sites. Browse alphabetically or by fiction or non-fiction genre.
  • BookBrowser
    Browse collection of popular reading lists by subject, now a part of the Barnes & Noble site.
  • BookMuse
    Excellent resources for bookclub members with recommended reads, reviews and leader's tips to get discussions going.
  • BookSpot
    Links to book reviews, reading lists, author and publisher information, book stores, book news, events and more.
  • BookWire
    Comprehensive online portal into the book industry from Bowker 
  • Canada Reads
    The story continues... five intriguing Canadians will be asked to vote for titles from the
    shortlist, until only one remains. That will be the book Canada Reads.
  • Canadian Information By Subject: Literature
    From the Library and Archives Canada, explore the wonderful world of our national literature. 
  • Fiction_L Booklists
    Hundreds of recommended books and authors, by theme, style, ethnicity or just for laughs from Morton Grove Public Library. 
  • Halton Hills Public Library: Favourite Fiction
    Some short, helpful lists of popular reading for everyone.
  • Hamilton Writers Index
    Hamilton, Ontario authors, contacts and Web sites.
  • Oprah's Book Club
    Includes reviews of books presented on the show, and listings from her former Book Club.
  • San Antonio Public Library: Fiction
    Annotated booklists and links for all fiction genres.

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Mystery & Crime

  • ClueLass
     Annotated links from three comprehensive guides: the Bloodstained Bookshelf, Deadly Directory Online and the Mysterious Homepage.
  • Crime Writers of Canada
     Biographies, awards and the annual "Bloody Words" conference.
  • The Mystery Reader
    Find all your favourite types of mystery authors here. Lets you know which authors have new books coming out.
  • Sisters in Crime
     Promotes the work of women mystery writers. Includes Canadian writers.
  • Stop, You're Killing Me!
    "A site to die for... if you love mystery books."
  • Tangled Web (UK) 
    Features British crime, mystery, horror, fantasy and science fiction - a British resource for reviews, digests, and author profiles.

Romance

Science Fiction

Reviews & Literary Criticism

  • BookCrossing
    A global book exchange and book club - also gives reviews and recommendations.
  • BookPage
    A monthly general interest book review site on new releases. Typically reviews a selection of each month's new fiction, nonfiction, business, children's, spoken word audio, and how-to books.
  • Books & Critics
    From Atlantic Online, book reviews, interviews and other literary items from the monthly magazine.
  • Chapters.Indigo.ca
    Canada's online bookstore offers links to the Globe & Mail and N.Y.Times Bestseller lists with short reviews and Oprah's picks.
  • Gale Literary Index
    Online cross reference to biographies and essays in the printed Gale literary series.
  • Globe and Mail Books
    Book news and features on the latest books.
  • IPL Literary Criticism
    Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical web sites. This site can be browsed by author, title, or by literary period. Online Literary Criticism Guide has links to sites on literary criticism. The Pathfinder: Literary Criticism provides tips on how to find and prepare literary criticism.
  • January Magazine
    An award-winning, electronic reviewing magazine. Reviews all categories, including children's, non-fiction, crime and sci-fi. Also has author profiles and insightful interviews.
  • Library Journal 
    Read reviews and other features online from this established professional journal.
  • Meet the Author
    See authors introducing their books in their own words with the use of video clips.
  • New York Times
    Search through an archive of book reviews plus expanded bestseller lists, first chapters and a link to the Barnes and Noble online bookstore.
  • Penguin Classics
    Browse the world's classic literature, engage in discussions, play trivia and read literary guides to over 1600 titles.
  • Publishers Weekly
    Keep up with what's happening in the writing and publishing world, with bestseller lists, reviews and more.
  • Writerspace
    An online community for over 550 authors, primarily romance and mystery where readers can gather, talk to each other, learn about releases and communicate with authors.

Book Discussion Groups & Guides

  • Amazon.ca: Books
    The Canadian equivalent of this online book store. Book reviews are provided by Booklist, Kirkus and other recognized reviewing journals. You can also submit reviews.
  • Book Discussion Guides
    From Random House, links to sites created by the publisher specifically for reading groups in various genres.
  • bookclubs.ca
    An excellent resource for book reading guides with an emphasis on Canadian titles - each Canadian title is marked with a red maple leaf for easy viewing.
  • Canadian Book Clubs
    Provides information on starting or joining a book club, sample discussion questions, tips, book reviews, and a discussion forum. Also, you may register your book club.
  • Reading Group Choices
    Selections for lively book discussions including tips on starting a reading group.
  • ReadingGroupGuides.com
    An online comminity for reading groups. Contains suggestions, information about the books, discussion questions, author biographies and interviews.

Young Adults' Reading, Reviews, Awards & More

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Children's Reading, Reviews, Awards & More

Awards: See BPL's Reading - Award Winning Books for major book awards.

Maintained by Margaret Leek
Updated August 2009

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