Literature Guide

Books

abebooks.com - Search for used books, The Reading Room, featured subjects, news, and awards.

Alibris - Search or browse for used books, message boards, articles and features, and booksellers.

AllReaders.com - Search by plot, theme, character, and setting, book reviews, discussions.

Amazon.com Books - Search and browse new and used books.

Barnes & Noble.com - Search and browse new and used books.

BookFinder.com - Search for new and used books, FAQ, and a glossary.

Directory of Publishers and Vendors - Publisher email addresses and websites directories.

Publishers' Catalogues - Search or browse directory of publishers by location, topics, or format.
 

Electronic Books

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - Search or browse Western literature and philosophy.

Amazon E-Books & E-Docs - Search or browse by category, download free readers.

Bartleby.com - Great books online in reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction, with an index.

Bookshare.org - Downloadable books for people with visual disabilities, fee required.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Full text of all Shakespeare's plays.

eBooks.com - Title search, subject guide, featured titles, requires Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader.

Electronic Text Center - SGML and XML-encoded electronic texts and images from UVA.

IPL Shakespeare's Bookshelf - Full text of all Shakespeare's plays and poetry with search.

NetLibrary - Search and borrow eBooks, Reading Room, and an online dictionary.

Online Literature Library - Classics by listed by author.

Project Gutenberg - Browse or search thousands of classic books for free download.

Read Print - Thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast by author.

Short Stories - Stories can be read online, printed, or downloaded for hand-held devices.

Telltale Weekly - Search catalog or browse audiobooks, free audiobooks, bestsellers, FAQ.
 

Literature

African American Literature Online - Over 75 works of 20th century literature by decade.

Author Webpages - Directory of links to author webpages.

Bartlett's Quotations - Passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in literature.

Based on the Book - Over 1,000 books, short stories, and plays made into movies.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature - Literary history and criticism.

ClassicNotes - Free literature summaries and analysis, and an online dictionary and thesaurus.

Classic Reader - Browse or search a free collection of online classic books, with forums and FAQ.

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature - Developed by a librarian.

Fantastic Fiction - Search or browse bibliographies, awards, new books, coming soon, series.

Glencoe Literature Library - Commercial site with book and play descriptions and study guides.

IPL Literary Criticism - Browse critical websites by author, title, nationality, or literary period.

Juvenile Series and Sequels: Titles - Alphabetical index of series, also by subject, title, and author.

Literature-Map - "The tourist map of literature", graphical display of similar writers.

MostlyFiction - Book reviews by genre, Top 25 Authors, Top Picks, awards, alphabetical indexes.

Mostly Fiction: Booklists! - Annotated links to selected booklists by genre and topic for all ages.

Online Literature Library - Alphabetical list of authors, biographies and literary works, ebooks.

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 - Over 2,800 texts of 19th century American fiction.
 

Poetry

The Academy of American Poets - Find a poet or poem, listen, forums, events, awards, exhibits.

American Verse Project - Search by word and phrase, browse the texts, and bibliography.

Bartleby.com Verse - Search a collection of verse, read online poetry anthologies and volumes.

Poetry Magazine - Current and upcoming issues, featured poets, and poetry awards and winners.

Representative Poetry Online - Indexed poets and poems with search, timeline, calendar, glossary.
 

Writing Resources

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - Grammar and punctuation rules and helpful links.

Chicago Manual of Style Documentation - A guide to the Chicago Manual of Style, must register.

Citation Style for Research Papers - APA, Turabian, MLA, Chicago, and AMA Styles.

Dictionary.com - Online dictionary and thesaurus, tools, games, translator, and writing resources.

The Elements of Style - Search plain English style for rules of usage and principles of composition.

Florida Writers Association - News, member and author sites, meetings, events, book reviews.

iTools! Language Tools - General and specialized dictionaries, thesaurus, and translators.

MLA Online - MLA Style manual.

OneLook Dictionaries - Search for a word from many online dictionaries or translate a word.

Thesaurus.com - Search Roget's Thesaurus, antonyms, browse by headword or category.

worksCited4U - Creates MLA formatted works cited pages and bibliographies for you.

yourDictionary.com - Quick lookup, foreign language dictionaries, grammar, thesaurus, and tools.