BOOK DISCUSSION GUIDES:

HarperCollins: Readers
http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/readers/index.asp
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and The God of Small Things are just two of the 62 featured books and perennial classics available from HarperCollins.

Main PPI Menu - Reading Group Guide
http://www.penguinputnam.com/
Click on "Reading Group Guides" for links to more than 90 Penguin Putnam and Topaz Romance book discussion guides, including Lilacs on Lace, The Women of Brewster Place, The Deep End of the Ocean, and The Rape of Nanking.

Books@Random: Reading Group Guides
http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/rgg.html
Reading guides for over 130 novels and 50 nonfiction books published by Random House are available here. Included are guides to Anywhere But Here, Your Oasis On Flame Lake, Snow Falling On Cedars, and an Unquiet Mind.

Reading Group Choices
http://www.readinggroupchoices.com/
Need help in coming up with questions for your book group to discuss? Use the index at this site to identify guides available from Random House, St. Martin's Picador Reader's Groups Guides, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Putnam, Henry Holt, and other publishers.

SimonSays.com:Reading Guides
http://www.simonsays.com/Sections/Areas.cfm?AreaID=4
Well over 100 reading guides are available from Simon & Schuster. Each one provides a summary of the plot, biographical information about the author - and often, transcripts of interviews with the author, excerpts from the book, suggested discussion questions, and a list of related readings.

BOOK SELLERS:

AddALL Book Search and Price Comparison
http://www.bookarea.com/
Simultaneously searches 41 new book stores (including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Powells) and 10 used, out of print, and rare book dealer's inventories, then shows which ones have what you want, the title's availability (in stock or special order), price (including shipping charges), and average time to ship.

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/
Approximately 3 million titles are available through this online bookstore. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Featured in the Media" to find books recently discussed on Oprah and National Public Radio or reviewed in the New York Times, Utne Reader, and other sources.

BarnesandNoble.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Millions of  fiction, nonfiction, ebook, music, DVD, video, software, college textbooks, and other titles, in and out of print, can be purchased here. Also includes New York Times and Barnes & Noble best seller lists, Reader's Catalog, author chats, and free online courses.

BookFinder.com
http://www.bookfinder.com/
A great site for comparing book prices! BookFinder simultaneously searches the inventory, then displays price and availablity of new, used, rare and out of print books from over a dozen major booksellers, including:

• ABE (Advanced Book Exchange)
• Alibris
• Amazon
• AntiQBook
• Barnes & Noble
• Bibliofind - over 10 million books, available through Bibliofind, from 3,500 booksellers
• BookAvenue
• Powell's Books - has an inventory of over 1.5 million new, used, rare and out of print books, plus 3,000 ebooks

Borders.com
http://www.borders.com/
Lists and provides brief summaries of their stock of 10 million books, CD's, and videos.\

Tattered Cover Internet Store
http://www.tatteredcover.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp
An independent bookstore housing over half a million books (all new, not used) -- with an extensive and unique assortment of titles.

BOOK SUGGESTIONS:

BookBrowser: Reading Lists
http://www.bookbrowser.com/ReadingList/index.html
Looking for a good mystery, romance, general fiction, horror or science fiction book to read? You'll find plenty of suggestions here!

Genrereflecting Books of the Week
http://www.mancon.com/genre/
Summarizes three books, each week, in different genre - romance, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, etc.

Popular Fiction - Readers' Advisory Tool Pages
http://members.home.net/albeej/pages/PopularFiction.html
Great links to genre fiction websites and to readers advisory tools like "MatchBook", "Readalikes", "Reader's Robot", "What's Great to Read", "Word of Mouth", and others.

Reader's Corner: Mystery, Romance and Fantasy
http://www.autopen.com/index.shtml
Articles about genre fiction and lists of recommended mystery, romance, and fantasy titles.

Romance Writers of America: Romance Novels Database
http://www.rwanational.com/titlesdatabasesearchmenu.stm
You'll find all the latest romance titles here, including those penned by Minnesota's own Amelia Autin, Pamela Bauer, Jane Bonander, Connie Brockway, Edna Curry, Kathleen Eagle, Lois Greiman, Michele Hauf, Susan Johnson, Susan Kay Law, Candace Schuler, Ana Seymour, and Susan Sizemore.

Soon's Historical Fiction Site
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~soon/histfiction/
Scroll down the page for a "Master List of Historical Fiction Writers" and links to both recently published historical fiction and to historical fiction by type and era.

ELECTRONIC BOOKS:

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Includes several thousand titles, mainly classics of American and British literature, and Western philosophy.

Digital Librarian: Electronic Texts & Primary Sources
http://www.digital-librarian.com/electronic.html
Links to collections of electronic books on the Web.

netLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/library_home_page.asp
Minnesota library users can simultaneously search the full text of more than 1,540 reference books for information. Information can be read online, or library users can set up a free  netLibrary account at their library. With the account, they are able to check out and download a reference book, or one of over 4,400 public domain titles, to their home computer. Access to the netLibrary collection of reference e-books is made possible by funds granted by the Minnesota Legislature to MINITEX. Some reference titles available on 8-hour loan include: Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage, Gangs: A Reference Handbook, and School Violence: A Reference Handbook.

On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Classical and scientific/technological books that are meant to be read online. A sampling of the more than 12,000 titles available include The Red Badge of Courage, the Bible, Shakepeare's works, Decline of the Sea Turtles, and the Internet Publishing Handbook.

Project Gutenberg Index
http://www.promo.net/pg/
More than 2,900 books in the public domain, most of them published before 1923, have been transferred to electronic form through Project Gutenberg. Titles which can be freely downloaded from the Internet range from Abraham Lincoln and Adam Bede to Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain.

Washingtonpost.com: Style Chapter One
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/chapterone.htm
Now you can read the first chapter of selected new fiction and nonfiction books online! Connect with "Chapter One" and choose from dozens of new books available in electronic format.

Internet Archive: Universal Access to Human Knowledge
http://www.archive.org/
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

BookPage Online
http://www.bookpage.com/
Click on the name of any author listed under "Book Page Interviews", then scroll downt to the names listed on the left side of the page, and select from over 100 authors, including Gary Paulsen, Jane Yolen, Laura Landvik, Sara Paretsky, Scott Turlow, and Alice Walker..

Literary Calendar: an Almanac of Literary Information
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/LitCalendar.shtml
Search by birth month and day for authors from Shakespeare to Dickinson. This Japanese site also provides links to web sites about the more than 2,700 authors in its database.

Literary Menagerie
http://home.olemiss.edu/~egcash/
An A to Z listing of websites about authors and their literary works. Includes modern authors like Edward Abbey and Roger Zelazny and classical authors like Jane Austen and William Wordsworth.

Minnesota Author Biographies Project
http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/biog/index.cfm
A collaboration of Metronet, the Minnesota Center for the Book, and the Minnesota Historical Society, this site provides biographical information about 36 Minnesota authors.

Minnesota Center for the Book
http://www.mnbooks.org/
Click on "Minnesota Book Awards" for names of authors nominated for the awards from 1988 to the present, and for a list of Minnesota authors who have won national awards.

LITERARY CRITICISMS:

IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
The Internet Public Library offers links to 4,000 websites that have biographical information about authors and/or scholarly literary criticisms of American literature from 1600AD to the present, and of British literature predating 1500AD through the 20th Century.

Literary Resources - American
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
Links to webpages about American authors, literary time periods, and electronic texts.

VoS English Literature - Main Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html
Links to webpages about authors and literature of the United States, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, South Africa, and other English-speaking countries from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present time.

POETRY:

Find A Poem - The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/poems/search.cfm
Browse or search for the title, or first line, of over 600 poems.

Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/poetpage.htm
Listen to contemporary poet's reading their poems, search a collection of poems published in "Atlantic Monthly", including those of Emerson, Frost, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, or read articles about writing poetry.

Glossary of Poetic Terms
http://shoga.wwa.com/~rgs/glossary.html
A comprehensive dictionary of forms and terminology for poets.

HTI American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
Over 120 books of American verse, written prior to 1920, can be read online. Poets include Benet, Dunbar, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe, Sandburg, Teasdale, and Whitman.

Literature & Poetry Page
http://www.netten.net/~bmassey/
Biographical sketches and the text of several representative poems from the works of Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Donne, Rudyard Kipling, and 30 other classic poets.

Verse.Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
Thousands of poems from 32 books of poetry and six anthologies can be searched at this site. The anthologies included in the database are: The Golden Treasury, Lyrics and Poetry of the 17th Century, Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry, Oxford Book of English Verse, and the Yale Book of American Verse.

QUOTATIONS:

Aphorisms Galore!
http://www.aphorismsgalore.com
Who said, "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up"? Search or browse this collection of 1,947 apt phrases to find out!

Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/99/index.html
Search "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by one or more keywords in the quotation, or, browse chronological or alphabetical lists of authors of famous quotations.

Cole's Quotables
http://www2.xtdl.com/~scole/
Searchable collection of classic and contemporary quotes.

Creative Quotations for Creative Thinking
http://www.bemorecreative.com/home-cq.shtml
Search this database of over 25,000 quotations by author, author's occupation, author's homeland, or a keyword in the quotation. There is also a monthly calendar of quotations penned by people born that month and day.

Kerrie DeGood Quotes Page
http://www.fn.net/~degood/quotes.html
Modern and classical quotes are arranged here under 51 categories.

Quotations Home Page
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/quote.html
This site includes more than 23,500 quotes, compiled by Steve Spanoudis, searchable by author, topic, and keyword, and arranged into 30 categories.

Quotations Page: Search for Quotations
http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3
Search nine collections, including Michael Moncour's own "MM's Cynical Quotes", simultaneously,  by either a quotation, or its author.

Interplay
http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay/
Index to thousands of plays published in collections, anthologies, or periodicals.

ClassicReader.com
http://classicreader.com/
ClassicReader.com, where you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and more.

Fiction.Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/fiction/ 
A collection of short story collections: The Short Story, The Haunters and the Haunted, Winesburg,Ohio, Five Short Stories, Three Stories, The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, and Monday Or Tuesday.