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Bookstores Online - shop abebooks.com, AddAll.com, alibris, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Bibliofind, Choosebooks.com, Powell's.com and Half.com

Reviews - check out these sites for Book Reviews:AllReaders.com, BookReview.com, Curledup.com, Mostlyfiction.com, Overbooked.com, Readingwoman.com

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Book Club Sites

The Armchair Critics' Book Club - Welcome to the Armchair Critics' Book Club, founded in1987. A group of women who meet monthly to share the love of good books. This web site is updated monthly to list the recent books under discussion and you can also check out our archival reading list, club rules, and photo album.

Book Reviews and Book Discussion Groups - a site devoted to providing book clubs with the information they need to find great new books for discussion.

The BookSpot Reading Guides - Looking for a book to discuss with students, family or friends? Try out this great websites lists of titles!

Good Reads -You will be able to keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read at this website.  It also helps you getting great book recommendations from people you know and find out what your friends are reading.

Reading Group Center - From informal get-togethers with friends to groups at bookstores and chat rooms on the Internet, people everywhere are talking about books. Vintage and Anchor Books invite you to discover today's best selections for reading groups and access useful resources to facilitate your group discussion here at the Reading Group Center.

Reader's Circle - Reader's Circle is an international directory for book clubs, reading groups, and literary salons of all kinds. 

ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Book Report Network is an Internet company comprised of 5 websites and 4 AOL areas that provide a vast array of online opportunities for readers, writers and publishers. The Book Report Network websites for readers provide original book content including author interviews, reviews and commentary; interactive elements such as polls, questions, and message boards; and reading group guides and other reader resources.

Who Reads What - The Gardiner, Maine Public Library provides a web-listing of what Celebrities are reading. Fun and entertaining!

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Reader's Advisory Sites on the Web - the best links for every genre from mystery to westerns

African American Links

African American Literature Book Club - Our goal is to increase everyone's knowledge of the diversity of African American literature, facilitate the exchange of opinions, satisfy your on-line book buying needs and serve as a resource and vehicle of expression for aspiring and professional writers.

African American Writers: A Celebration - Middle Tennessee State University has compiled a wonderful website devoted to African American Writers & African American Issues.

African American Writers Online E-texts - The University of Virginia Library's Modern English Collection African-American Writers E-Text Collection. This page gives access to full text downloads of works by several hundred African-American authors.

African-American Voices in Popular Fiction -A list of popular African American fiction with brief description provided by Arrowhead Library System of Janesville, Wisconsin.

Book-Remarks.com - The goal of Book-Remarks.com is to offer exciting, timely, positive, and useful information to the African-American reading community.

MystNoir African American - MystNoir features African-American amateur sleuths, private eyes, and police detectives that appear in mystery fiction as well as their authors.

QBR The Black Book Review Online - QBR is the first book review exclusively dedicated to books about the Africana experience. In its pages you will find fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children books, health and lifestyle management, writers from Africa and the Caribbean.

Rawsistaz - The Reading and Writing SISTAZ Online Book Club, aka RAWSISTAZ, focuses on reading, writing, and discussing books primarily by African-American Authors.

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Historical & Western Links

Fictional Rome - More than 1,500 novels can be searched by title, author, date, subject and other categories. Also author information, reviews, a glossary, time line and brief biographies of historical figures. Lots of external historical links!

HistFiction.net - browse a comprehensive list of historical writers and their works.

Of Ages Past - An e-journal that offers book excerpts, recommended reading lists, and reviews, as well as original articles and short stories. Be prepared, there are popups!

Prehistoric Fiction - massive lists of novels set in prehistoric times, or in which the principal characters are members of a prehistoric society.

Roundup Online Magazine - the magazine of the Western Writer's of America features book reviews, author interviews, and a complete list of all the Spur Award nominees.

Western Writer's of America - check out the latest Spur Award winners or just dig into the info about everything Old West.

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Horror Links

DarkEcho's Horror Web - features the best in horror reviews, writers, and features.

HWA: Horror Writers Association - get the latest Bram Stoker Awards, recommended reading lists, and a history of the association.

Literary Gothic - The Web's premiere guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid 20th century.

Gothic.net - longest running horror webzine. Contains reviews, booklists, etc. Best viewed with Internet Explorer.

Vampire Junction - started in 1991 as a non-profit zine devoted to the promotion of the vampire in fiction, fact and art.

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Literary Links

Classic Reader - where you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others.

Compulsive Reader - This site features reviews of new release books by some of the hottest writers working today. There are also author interviews, profiles, links to sites where you can immerse yourselves in the authors and more.

Earlyword.com - This site provides spreadsheets that collect the highest rated books of the year, adult and juvenile, from a number of different literary rating services.

The Literary Web - a hypermedia guide to literary resources available on the World Wide Web.

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Mystery Links

Bibliomysteries - mysteries that have settings, plots, or substantial characters in them related to the world of books, archives, and libraries.

ClueLass HomePage - this site includes the BloodStained Bookshelf and DeadlyDirectory Online.

Mystery Ink - The Booklover's Guide to Mysteries and Thrillers.

Mystery Net - join in mystery discussions, learn the history of mysteries or solve one of the mini-mysteries.

Mystery Readers Journal - read online articles, reviews, and essays on tons of mystery themes.

MystNoir African American - MystNoir features African-American amateur sleuths, private eyes, and police detectives that appear in mystery fiction as well as their authors.

Stop, You're Killing Me - This site is a resource for the lovers of mystery, intrigue and suspense books. Stop! has hundreds of authors, with complete, chronological lists of their books in this sub-genre.

Virtual Murder - The goal of this page is to maintain a listing of online mystery-related sources.

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Poetry Links

Library Of Congress Poetry Page - Looking for a poem to read with students, family or friends? Try out this website's lists of poetry events, news and poetry webcast!

Literary Web Poetry Links - Poetry is alive and well on the World Wide Web! There are many dynamic and accessible sites where both classic and contemporary poetry can be located. These sites include archives, online magazines and journals, and interactive poetry pages.

Louisiana Poetry - This is a list of poets, current and deceased, who have lived in Louisiana for a substantial amount of time. At the end of this section, there is a list of the Louisiana State Poet Lauraetes, local poets, ongoing poetry events, and poetry organizations.

NOAA Poetry Corner - What do poetry, engineers, and scientists have in common? The NOAA Poetry Corner, home of weather poems, survey poems, and ocean poems written by the men and women who served in NOAA.

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Romance

All About Romance - The romance readers home for romance novels, romance
reviews, romance authors, and more.

The Romance Reader - get the latest news and views on romance novels and authors.

Romantic Times - definitive romance guide and one-stop bookshop.

Romance Writers of America - a national non-profit genre writers' association -- the largest of its kind in the world. It provides networking and support to individuals seriously pursuing a career in romance fiction.

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Science Fiction & Fantasy Links

Fantastic Fiction - over a thousand bibliographies of the best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror authors.

Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia - focuses on Science Fiction and Fantasy works that examine gender issues, advocate for equality, and portray women as strong, capable, or in unusual roles.

Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase - The ISFDB is an effort to catalog works of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, yearly fiction indexes, and forthcoming books.

Locus Index to Science Fiction - This index is created from the monthly Books Received column in Locus Magazine, edited by Charles N. Brown

SF Lovers - visit the home of SF-Lovers, a net presence since 1979! We are committed to providing information of interest to fans of the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and related genres.

SF Site - dedicated to the best in science fiction and fantasy, in print and

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America SFWA - Here are lists of older don't-miss novels and short stories that might get overlooked in the flurry of new publications. These lists were compiled by readers especially for this web page.

Science Fiction Reference Library - contains an extensive collection of links to SF resources on the Net. Subject areas include other archives and resource guides, authors, art and artists, bibliographies, movies, television, bookstores, book reviews, role-playing games, zines, etc.

SciFan - SciFan offers lists of books that have won at least one of ten different science fiction awards. SF series listings, non-fiction science books, and links for writers!

Uchronia - the Alternate History List is an annotated bibliography of novels, stories, essays and other material involving the "what ifs" of history.

Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide - Over 6,000 links to Web science fiction resources, including an 'if you like' section.

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