Reading Guide

Looking for something good to read?

Use this list to find ebooks to read online right now or find an interesting book to check out from Seminole County Public Library.

Book Clubs--Electronic Books--General Reading--Mystery--Romance
Science Fiction/Fantasy--Westerns

Book Clubs

BookCrossing - A global book club where members leave books for others, with forums.

BookMovement - Tracks what book clubs are reading, with a book club planner, book reviews.

FastCompany Book of the Month Club - Business book club with reviews and online discussion.

Good Morning America "Read This!" - Book club with book excerpts and message boards.

How to Start a Book Club - How-to in 15 steps with tips.

How to Start a Book Club for Kids - Simple 4-step instructions for starting a kids reading club.

LitLovers - An online community dedicated to books and book clubs.

Oprah's Book Club - Oprah's favorites, writers on writing, kid's reading list, message boards, more.

Reader's Circle - Directory of book clubs, reading groups, and literary salons, with event listings.

Reading Group Choices - Guide to choosing books for book discussion groups.

ReadingGroupGuides.com - Book recommendations, discussion guides, book club picks.

Today's Book Club - NBC Today Show book club with book reviews and chat.

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.

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

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

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

HarperCollins Browse Inside - Search and browse entire selected books online.

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

manybooks.net - Browse or search for free books for your PDA or iPod, books of the month.

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.

General Reading

ALA Booklist - American Library Association book reviews, editors' choice, articles, archive.

AllReaders.com - Find a book to read by plot, theme, character, and setting, book reviews.

Amazon.com Books - Read reviews and buy new and used books, search inside the books.

The Atlantic Online Books & Critics - Interviews, articles, book reviews, and magazine Archive.

Author Webpages - Directory of links to author webpages.

Barnes & Noble.com - Read reviews and buy new and used books.

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

Book TV - C-SPAN site with history, public lives, Encore Booknotes, featured program.

The Booklist Center - Contains 340 booklists in 81 categories of award-winning books.

BookPage - Book reviews, author interviews, book club recommendations.  Free copy at SCPL.

Bookreporter.com - Reviews, features, newsletter, readers' reviews, message boards, contests.

Books-A-Million - Read reviews and buy discounted books.

Books 'n' Bytes - Mystery, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and computer authors.

BookWire - News, book industry links, author interviews, booksellers, calendar, ebooks, directory.

The Complete Review - "A selectively comprehensive, objectively opinionated survey of books."

Downtown Book Center - Search or browse books written in Spanish.

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

The Fiction_L Booklists -  Morton Grove Public Library's readers' advisory by category.

If You Like... - Find fiction books by author from Hennepin County Library.

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

LibraryThing - Catalog your books online and connect with other readers through the forums.

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.

The New York Times Book Reviews - Book reviews, news, best sellers lists, editors' choices.

Notable Books - American Library Association 25 notable books in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Publisher's Weekly - News, features, book reviews, sections, resources, and newsletters.

Pulitzer Prize Winners - Pulitzer Prize-winning books by year with resources, archive, and history.

Reading List of Great Works - A list of classics compiled by a Seminole County librarian.

What's Next? - Search adult fiction in a series by author, title, or series.

USA TODAY Books - Features, reviews, Top 150 books, Open Book, and excerpts.

Mystery

The Mystery Reader - News and book reviews, features, author interviews, contests, more.

Stop, You're Killing Me! - Search author and character indexes, links, new releases, newsletter.

Tangled Web - Crime, mystery, and fantastic fiction digests, reviews, author profiles, and more.

Romance

All About Romance - Reviews, authors, commentary, reading lists, and historical cheat sheet.
 

The Romance Reader - News, book reviews, emporium, features, FAQ, interviews, more.

Romance Writers of America - News, author links, publishers, award winners, bestsellers.

Sequels and Prequels for Romance Novels - Links by single title, category, and publisher series.

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine - Current and back issues, departments, writers' guidelines.

Fantasy and Science Fiction News - News and press releases, lists and awards, archives, more.

Locus Online - News, reviews, and resources of sci fi, fantasy, and horror, Awards Index.

The SF Site - Reviews, features, departments, and author interviews. 
 

Westerns

ReadWest Online Magazine - Fiction, nonfiction, news, reviews, authors, movies, best westerns.

Spur Award History - List of Spur Award winners from 1953 to the present by year.

Western Writers of America - Roundup Magazine, Spur Award, contact authors, and conventions.