Books, Bookstores, Publishers, Writing, Literacy

Bookstores & Publishers

• Amazon.com Books 
• Barnes & Noble bookstore 
• Alibris - Rare Used and Hard-to-Find Books 
• Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America 
• Advanced Book Exchange 
• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page 

Reviews & Reading lists

• BookLetters Best Sellers and Awards Page
• The New York Times on the Web: Books
  Includes an index to and full text of reviews from 1996 to present 
• Booklist
  Book reviews from the American Library Association's Booklist magazine of books and media for adults and youth 
• The Romance Reader 
• The Mystery Reader 
• Book Browser from Barnes and Noble
  Who writes like ..., sequels. There is not a large number of genre categories here at present but it can be useful if you don't have ready access to books like "Genreflecting", "What do I Read Next?", or "Sequels" 
• Literary award lists
  Nobel, Booker, Pulitzer, Whitbread, Prix Goncourt, National Book Center Circle, National Book Award, Pen/Faulkner, & the L.A. Times award 
• Stop, You're Killing Me
• Author Yellow Pages
  Personal and publisher web pages for a variety of authors

Writing Guides & Literacy

• Laubach Literacy 
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 
• Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations 
• The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996 
• Elements of Style by William Strunk (1918 edition)
  Rules of grammar and composition 
• Roget's II : The New Thesaurus 
• Literary Market Place

Books On-line

• Shakespeare - the complete works 
• Project Gutenberg
  Texts of many classic works of literature, some political writings, and a few other nonfictional texts 
• Mississippi Review
  A monthly literary review published by the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi
• Academy of American Poets
• Online Books Page
• The Internet Public Library Online Text Resources