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Livingston Public Library Reference Resources

Books

Are you looking for best sellers? book reviews? author information? reading recommendations?
We have selected the following web sites for you to browse.

    Amazon.com  Online bookstore's searchable index claims to offer 2.5 million titles and is a good place to find information on new and forthcoming books.

    American Authors on Web
      A great site for searching American literature.

    Barnes and Noble
      Site offers links to more than 1.5 million books, to book reviews, and in some cases, to more full text reviews than Amazon. Many title searches can connect you to a synopsis, review and commentary. It may also connect to tables of contents and first chapters in some cases.

    Children's Literature Web Guide
      Recommended children's movies and videos are included. It also gives children's book award information.

    FreeBooknotes.com
    offers many sites that help students with literature assignments.It's a comprehensive guide to free book summaries, literature notes, and study guides (like "cliff notes") for over 250 books.

    Goodreads See what your friends are reading, keep track of what you've read or what you'd like to read and get great book recommendations from people you know.

    Library Thing Connect with people who read the same things or catalog your books with Amazon, the Library of Congress or 690 other world libraries.

    New York Review of Books


    New York Times: Books


    The Nobel Prize in Literature Winners 2007 - 1901
    (The Nobel Prize Internet Archive)

    The On-Line Books Page
     
    Includes 12,000 searchable titles. It also links to news, banned books on-line, prize winners on-line, and more.

    Oprah.com

    Overbooked A website for ravenous and omnivorous readers, it provides information about fiction and readable nonfiction

    Salon  An online magazine with a hip edge. It offers a searchable collection of book reviews popular and literary material.

    Times Literary Supplement
      Weekly reviews of fiction, poetry, history, politics, philosophy, the arts, and every other subject under the sun.

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