Recommended Links for Readers

Pages www.ireadpages.com
Pages, the magazine for people who love books, profiles and interviews the top writers of today and the voices of tomorrow. We delve into the art of writing and find out how authors write, who they write to, and, most importantly, why they write. We give both established and new authors a chance to speak to the issues that affect their craft: breaking into the business, struggling with a blank page, dealing with the pressures of success, and the role of the publishing industry as a whole. The online site also features helpful recommendations and reviews of promising debuts. Pages magazine is produced by Creation Integrated Media, a division of Advanced Marketing Services, Inc.

The Atlantic Online www.theatlantic.com
The Atlantic Online has a two-fold mission: first, to serve as The Atlantic Monthly's home on the Internet, presenting the magazine's digital edition and continually building a useful online archive; second, to serve as the home of Atlantic Unbound, an online journal that extends the magazine's coverage of books, literature, and culture. Each month The Atlantic Online offers the contents of The Atlantic's print edition - augmented with links to related articles, other Web sites, and/or special online sidebars - alongside a weekly update of original Web-only features in Atlantic Unbound. The site offers access to back issues of The Atlantic from November 1995 (when the magazine first appeared on the Web) to the present, as well as hundreds of articles selected from the magazine's 143-year archive. The Atlantic Online is also home to an interactive forum, Post & Riposte.

Overbooked www.overbooked.org
This is a very informative web site (formerly known as Book Links) for ravenous readers. Overbooked specializes in literary and genre fiction information. Overbooked Originals include author web pages, annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which received starred reviews, themed booklists, featured titles lists and hot lists of hard cover US fiction releases.

Arts and Letters Daily www.aldaily.com
This spectacular site, a recent winner of a Webby Award, offers a staggering array of content of great interest to the avid reader. From their homepage, readers can access a seemingly countless number of national and international newspapers; news services; journals and magazines; book reviews; Middle East news, radio news; columnists; and Ezines. It also features a good search engine; and a helpful Utilities area with a virtual reference desk and both standard and multilingual dictionaries. An additional area of Amusements provides links to cartoons, trivia, humorous observations, quizzes, and an assortment of silly contests (for example, The Bad Writing Contest).

Booklist www.ala.org/booklist/
Welcome to the digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine. For more than 90 years, Booklist has been the librarian's leading choice for reviews of the latest books and (more recently) electronic media. Every year we review nearly 4,000 books for adults, more than 2,500 titles for children, more than 500 reference books and electronic reference tools, and 1,000 other audiovisual materials. We also publish a wide variety of feature articles including author interviews, bibliographies, book-related essays by well-known writers, and a selection of columns. This web site is designed to introduce Booklist to a new group of readers and to provide current subscribers with additional services and points of access. By clicking on the appropriate text below, you can examine a current selection of reviews, enjoy a wealth of feature articles, or consult a newly developed cumulative index not available in the print Booklist. You may also use the site to send e-mail to our editors, learn how to subscribe to the print Booklist and to order other Booklist publications. For book readers bored with the limited selection of reviews available in newspapers and mass-market magazines, here is your source for more current, more concise information on a wider range of new books.

NewsPages Weblog www.newpages.com/weblog
This site provides an alternative guide to new books, magazines, and music along with news from the net of interest to booksellers, publishers, librarians, writers, and readers. Many links included in the are to news items and the links may change soon after posted.

The Romance Reader www.theromancereader.com/
This site features the very latest news and views of romance novels.

The Mystery Review www.themysteryreview.com
Information about new releases, book reviews, thematic articles, interviews with authors and other mystery personalities, mystery bookstore profiles, out-of-print features, word games and puzzles related to the mystery genre are the featured elements of this online site from the noted print quarterly.

The Gumshoe Site www.nsknet.or.jp/~jkimura
This excellent site features wonderfully comprehensive content of interest to mystery readers. Created and maintained by a Japanese fan, this site is just incredible - lots of news, reviews, and helpful links.

The Mystery Reader www.themysteryreader.com/
This site features the very latest news and views of mystery novels.

The Drood Review of Mystery www.droodreview.com
For twenty years, the mystery genre's most comprehensive and trusted guide to new titles.

The Sci-Fi Site www.sfsite.com
This is a comprehensive site for readers of science fiction and fantasy. Featured are book reviews, opinion pieces, author interviews, fiction excerpts, author and publisher reading lists, and more. The site is further enhanced by numerous links to author and fan tribute sites, magazines, publishers, e-zines, and small press listings.

AudioFile www.audiofilemagazine.com
AudioFile, the only magazine devoted to audiobooks, is indispensable for anyone who enjoys spoken-word audio. They review more than 100 audiobooks in each issue and award exceptional performances with AudioFile's Earphones Awards. This site features many of their current reviews online, an archive of past reviewed material, and articles from their bimonthly print magazine.

Advanced Book Exchange www.abebooks.com
You can access the bookshelves of thousands of used, secondhand, rare, and out-of-print booksellers around the world by means of this site. With over 10,000 independent dealers and 40 million titles in this network, shopping for hard-to-find books just got easier.

Book Sense www.booksense.com
BookSense.com is a family of independent-bookseller websites. When you visit a BookSense.com virtual bookstore, you will experience the knowledge and passion of independent booksellers who share their love of books with their customers and their communities. You'll have access to information and news about local authors, store events, and myriad staff recommendations - and you will also be presented with content that reflects the collective wisdom of booksellers from all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The Book Sense 76 represents a bimonthly selection of seventy-six recommended readings.

The Pulitzer Prizes www.pulitzer.org
Search this archive to find both the past winners and nominees for this notable award.

Site for Book Lovers www.slco.lib.ut.us
Find book reviews, author interviews, award winners, bestseller lists, and more on this comprehensive site maintained by Salt Lake County Library.

Book Crossing www.bookcrossing.com
If you have ever taken pleasure in sharing a favorite book with someone, this is a site well worth exploring. Book Crossing represents a unique "Read and Release" project. Visit this fun and unusual site for further details.

Reading Group Guides:

Local LIT kpwriting@comcast.net
This welcomed project, initiated by local resident Kathye Fetsko Petrie, represents a calendar/journal of literary events and news in the Philadelphia area, Delaware County, Chester County, New Jersey and Delaware. Current distribution is by e-mail. Local LIT will become a paid monthly publication (subscriptions and advertising) starting this fall, 2002. Eventually, there will be a web site, with links, which will help cut down on the length of the current e-letter. Cost will be $12 per year. Advertisers can e-mail Kathye at kpwriting@comcast.net for rate information.

Good Books Lately www.goodbookslately.com
Good Books Lately is a literary consulting company that supports readers in private, corporate, and classroom book groups.

Publisher Online Reading Groups Communities:

Random House, Vintage, Knopf, Ballantine, Doubleday, Bantam, Dell
http://www.randomhouse.com
Penguin, Viking, Signet, Dutton
http://www.penguinputnam.com
HarperCollins, HarperPerennial, Avon, DaCapo
http://www.harpercollins.com
Simon & Schuster, Scribner
http://www.simonandschuster.com
Norton
http://www.wwnorton.com
Henry Holt, Owl
http://www.henryholt.com
St. Martin's Press, Picador, Palgrave, Minotaur
http://www.stmartins.com
Time Warner, Little Brown, Hyperion
http://www.twbookmark.com
Harcourt
http://www.harcourtbooks.com
Houghton Mifflin, Mariner, Beacon
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
http://www.algonquin.com/
FSG (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux), North Point Press, Hill and Wang, Faber and Faber
http://www.fsgbooks.com/

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