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Many authors have a personal website. Publishers and fans also create sites. To find your favorite author, try searching Google. Go to google.com and put the author’s name and the word site in double quotation marks in the search box (for example: “Agatha Christie site” or “J.K. Rowling site” ). You should receive plenty of hits, starting with the author’s official site. Happy Searching!
Looking for Something to Read? Browse these sites— The Booklist Center — lists hundreds of books in dozens of categories. Genrefluent — Author and reviewer Diana Herald reads a book a day and collects her brief, lively reviews on this Web page, formerly known as Genreflecting. This is also a great source for teen readers! New York Times Bestseller List — Find out who’s on and who’s off the list! Hennepin County Library — The Hennepin Country Library in Minnetonka, Minnesota has created an amazing page of “If You Liked…” lists. You can browse by author’s name, titles, or subject categories to find all kinds of recommendations for great books!
Book Discussion Guides BookMuse — this site provides reviews, questions, and topics for discussion, literary criticism, books for further reading, and tips for discussion leaders. The site covers a wide variety of genres including contemporary, classic, science fiction, young adult, and more. Reading Group Guides — this site provides comprehensive guides for hundreds of books including bestsellers, romance, spirituality, the Civil War, and more.
Online Literary Magazines BookBrowse — Read excerpts and reviews about books as well as a variety of author interviews and reading guides. Bookpage — Lively reviews of dozens of new books, interviews, and book information. They also have an archive, so you can look up titles you’ve missed! BookReporter — This site describes itself as a place “where readers and writers click” and features reviews, articles, author interviews, and reader commentaries.
Books on the Web Bartleby.com — This site provides free access to hundreds of classic books, plays, and poems as well as reference works. The site is searchable; so if you only know one line of a poem, you can enter it and the site will give you the entire work. Includes many classics such as Shakespeare, Poe, Bullfinch’s legends and mythology, Gray’s Anatomy, Robert’s Rules of Order, Emily Post’s Etiquette, and many, many more! Project Gutenberg — This site, created in 1971, is attempting to make famous and important texts available online for free. No recent bestsellers...but lots and lots of material that is no longer under copyright. |
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