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Books and Authors

The Booklist Center: over 250 booklists in 62 categories
BC Book Prizes
The Giller Prize
The Governor General's Literary Awards
Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism: Over 2500 critical and biographical web sites to literary authors and their works. Browse by author, title, nationality or literary period. Excellent links and very useful for school and university research
Books: Lists of Bests

Bookcrossing: Read, register and set your book free.
Books@Random: Random House Publishers provide lists of suggested book discussion titles with summaries and sample questions
Oprah's Book Club
Reading Group Guides: an extensive list of titles grouped by subject with summaries, discussion guides as well as advice on running your own book group
Simon & Schuster Reading Group Guides

Author Tracker: a unique tool that notifies you whenever your favorite authors come out with new books, go on tour, and more.
Barnes and Noble BookBrowser: browse fiction by genre and non-fiction by subject.
BookBrowse : book reviews by title, author, genre and more
BookWire: Bills itself as "the book industry's most comprehensive and thorough online information source". It provides independent content and well-categorized links, and contains information about current book news and reviews, publishers, libraries, book awards, and writing resources
Fiction Connection: find new books to read based on a variety of searching methods. You can even find books similar to ones you've already enjoyed.
Globe & Mail Books
London Review of Books
The New York Times Books
Overbooked: A great site that lists authors, awards, reviews, information and reading lists for all genres. Very comprehensive
Rochester Hills Public Library's Good Reads Page: Great site from the Rochester Hills Public Library
Reading Room: A weblog from the New York Times' Sunday Book Review
Webrary - Reader's Services: Loads of booklists on all types of fiction from the Morton Grove Public Library
What's Next - Books in Series: good website for finding titles in a series for fiction.
Whichbook.net: offers choices which are not available anywhere else - mood, style, plot shape, type of main character, country the book is set in.

Crime Writers of Canada: want to keep current with Canadian crime fiction? Sign up for their free e-newsletter, Cool Canadian Crime. Also contains information about Canadian crime authors
The Fantasy Book List : Lists by author, plus bibliographies
The Recommended Fantasy Author List: An alphabetical list by author including lists
Stop You're Killing Me!: Hundreds of lists of mysteries by author, series, character and more
Tangled Web: A crime and mystery site from the UK
All About Romance: Reviews, columns, reading lists, reader comments, awards and more
The Romance Reader: Reviews, features, interviews, author web pages and more for all types of romance
SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Book lists, interviews, author links, reviews, conventions and more

British Columbia Libraries "Library To Go" : download audiobooks and E-books with your New Westminster Public Library Card
The Online Books Page: over 20,000 full text books from various genres, non-fiction, and foreign languages
Project Gutenberg: links include a variety of fiction and reference works
Treasures in full Shakespeare in quarto: Shakespeare's 21 plays printed in quarto before 1642
Perseus Digital Library: Tufts University: excellent source for Classical and Renaissance texts, images

Literary Criticism

CanLit Canadian Literature Archive: information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, Canadian literary organizations, magazines, publications, and library archives
Canadian Literature: A quarterly of Criticism and Review: explores the best Canadian writers and writing. Each issue contains articles, poems and an extensive book reviews section.
Children’s Literature Resources: electronic texts, databases, web sites and other resources
Dictionary of Literary Terms: compiled from a variety of sources by Dr Wheeler, an assistant professor of English literature
Literary Criticism: Internet Public Library: contains critical and biographical websites about authors
Merriam-Webster Online: includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book
Voice of the Shuttle: an annotated guide to humanities resources including foreign language literatures, literary theory, and classical studies

Out-of-Print Books

AbeBooks: Advertises itself as "the World's Largest Source of out-of-print books", with 13 million titles listed, including rare and antiquarian books
Alibris: Rare signed books, manuscripts, autographs and more.
Bibliofind: Searchable database of out of print books
BookFinder: Site to locate new, used, rare and out-of-print books

Poetry

Canadian Poets Online: search for author works, biography, and critical material by name, region or chronology
Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada: poems from over 100 early English- and French-language Canadian poets