Discussion, News, Booksellers, Literature, Genres, Libraries, Writing

Area Libraries
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
Library Catalog, Virtual Reference Desk, Home Page

Portage County Public Library (Stevens Point)
Library Catalog, Home Page, Obituary Index, Portage County Cemetery Locator, Portage County Historical Society Photo Collection.

McMillan Public Library, Wisconsin Rapids
Library Catalog, Home Page

Marshfield Public Library
Library Catalog, Home Page

Iola Village Library
Library Catalog, Home Page

Marathon County Public Library
Library Catalog

Waupaca Public Library
Library Catalog, Home Page

Wisconsin Valley Library Service
Library Catalog

South Central Library System
Home Page

Books@Random Book Group Corner -- http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup
Random House offers reading group guides for a large number of fiction and nonfiction books, classics as well as popular titles.

HarperCollins Reader Resources -- http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/readers/
Detailed reading guides on a handful of authors as well as some on individual titles.

Oprah's Book Club -- http://www.oprah.com/obc/obc_landing.html
Complete listing of Oprah's Book Club selections. Reading questions, reviews and author biographies are also available. In addition, other books seen on the show are listed.

Reading Group Guides -- http://www.readinggroupguides.com
One of the most exhaustive on the web, this site contains 500 reading group discussion guides, information on
how to start and run a reading group, and links of interest to established groups.

SimonSays.com: Reading Guides -- http://www.simonsays.com/content/browse.cfm?page=titles&sid=519
Simon & Schuster's homepage has a section devoted to reading guides for several popular titles, along with reading groups that meet online.

AwardWeb -- http://216.92.255.170/awardweb/
This site is a comprehensive guide to current, international literary award information for all genres.

Booklist -- http://www.ala.org/booklist/index.html
The digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine. Offers a selection of book and audiovisual media reviews, along with feature articles.

BookSpot -- http://www.bookspot.com/
Book news, lists, reviews, awards, and author information.

Book TV -- http://www.booktv.org
This website serves as a companion to C-Span 2'S weekend programming which features non-fiction books and their authors. Advance information on programming is offered, as is background information on authors and links to bestseller lists from arounf the country.

Bookwire -- http://www.bookwire.com/
Publisher’s Weekly’s site offers links to numerous sites for book lovers as well as its own information including a section which allows you to search for bestsellers by author or keyword in title. Features an extensive listing of author indexes.

Mosaicbooks.com/The Black Literary Showcase -- http://www.mosaicbooks.com
Online counterpart to Mosaic magazine. Reviews of new Black and Hispanic literature. Also has a listing of book clubs across the U.S. that focus on African American literature, including some that meet online.

New York Review of Books -- http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html
Online version of the weekly magazine. Articles, classifieds, and an archive of past issues.

Amazon.com -- http://www.amazon.com
Bills itself as "the Earth's Biggest Bookstore." Comprehensive book review listings, online ordering, author interviews and recommendations.

Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America -- http://abaa.org
Specializes in rare and antiquarian books, maps and prints. Large booksellers directory, book search, online catalogs, and a book fair calendar.

Best Book Buys -- http://bestbookbuys.com
This site posts a chart comparing book price and shipping for each of the internet booksellers offering a particular title.

Barnes & Noble -- http://www.barnesandnoble.com
Features recommended book lists, message boards,online ordering, books in the news and live author chats.

BookFinder.com -- http://www.bookfinder.com/
Use this site as a first stop to search for used, rare and out-of-print titles. It searches the following bookseller databases all at once: Advanced Book Exchange, Amazon, Antiqbook, Bibliocity, Bibliofind, BookAvenue, Powell's Books and YourBooks.com.

netLibrary -- http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/cgi-bin/pbauth.cgi
Scroll down for link.  Brought to you by the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium, 2000 non-fiction titles and 4000 free electronic texts, fully searchable by keyword or full text. If Endeavor says "electronic book," this is where you'll find it.

Bookbrowser: The Guide for Avid Readers -- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookbrowser/Welcome.asp?
Now part of Barnes and Noble.  A helpful site offering a large number of fiction reading lists, in addition to reviews, forthcoming titles, series and sequels listings and readers' resources. Also contains a useful listing of pseudonymns and authors' websites.

Children’s Literature Web Guide -- http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Includes children’s book awards, best books lists, bestsellers, movies and television based on children’s books, information about authors, online children’s stories and more.

Gale's Literature Resource Center -- http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/cgi-bin/pbauth.cgi
Scroll down to LRC link.  Comprehensive resource for locating background information, biographies, plot summaries, and criticism of many titles and authors, from medieval to contemporary literature. Requires a South Central Library System/Madison Public Library library card barcode to access.

The ClueLass HomePage -- http://www.cluelass.com/
ClueLass offers links to sites for both readers and writers of mysteries.

DarkEcho -- http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/
Reviews, author information and extensive links on the horror genre.

Genreflecting -- http://www.genrefluent.com/
A very detailed guide to genre fiction covering Historical Fiction, Crime, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Teen Fiction.

Morton Grove Public Library's Web Sites for Book Lovers -- http://www.webrary.org/rs/rslinks.html
Book reviews, author interviews, award winners, bestseller lists and much more.

The Mysterious Home Page -- http://www.cluelass.com/MystHome/
Comprehensive index of links on mystery, detective and criminal fiction.

Useful Links for Romance Writers and Readers -- http://www.jaclynreding.com/links
Large listing of author pages, bestseller lists, writer's organizations and much more.

What's Next -- http://ww2.kdl.org/libcat/WhatsNextNEW.asp
A reference for works of fiction in series. Enter a title, author, or name of a book in a series and get a list of the titles in that series.

The Library of Congress Catalogs -- http://catalog.loc.gov/

South Central Libraries -- http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/sclslibs.html
Includes links to their websites.

University of Wisconsin Library Catalog-MadCat -- http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/

WISCAT On-Line Catalog -- http://www.wiscat.net/
Wisconsin’s statewide library bibliographic database is available now through the Internet. To obtain any items listed, please go to your local library with the information.

Wisconsin Library Web Sites -- http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dlcl/pld/wis_lib.html
The Department of Public Instruction's list of state libraries with web sites.

American Verse Project -- http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
American and English poetry from 1250-1920.

Bartleby Verse -- http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
A searchable electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.

The Censorship Pages -- http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/
Sponsored by Books A To Z, this site features many articles and links on a variety of censorship issues. Contains many useful resources on banned books.

A Celebration of Women Writers -- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information on women writers. Searchable by name, country or century.

English Literature on the Web -- http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html
This exhaustive guide is broken down by time period and includes not only American Authors buy also links to archived text from Anglo-Saxon times to the 20th Cnentury.

Familiar Quotations -- http://www.bartleby.com/100/
"Key word, author, title and subject access to a number of major quotation sources in the public domain, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the King James Bible, Roget's Thesaurus and others."

Internet Classics Archive -- http://classics.mit.edu/
Sponsored in part by the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, this website offers well over 400 works of classical literature online. Although the site is weighted towards Greco-Roman works, Chinese and Persian authors such as Sun Tzu and Omar Khayyam are represented.

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s -- http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
Fascinating compilation of links to literature, essays and other writing that accurately captures much of the spirit and sentiment of the 1950s. Designed by Professor Al Filreis at the University of Pennsylvania for use in an English Literature class.

Poet's Corner -- http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
This site has as its goal "to become the largest and most diverse publically-accessible online collection of poetry in the world."

Sonnet Central -- http://www.sonnets.org
An interesting archive of English sonnets, modernized for the general reader. The sonnets are categorized by period and region or by author, and the site also contains critical essays and a "listening room" where you can hear readings of selected works.

Voices From The Gaps -- http://voices.cla.umn.edu
Billed as "an instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color", Voices From The Gaps includes excellent biographical information on an expanding list of authors. Thorough bibliographies and helpful related links supplement the author entries.

The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource Homepage -- http://www.zuzu.com/
Features a massive (+7000) listing of links for writers, artists, performers and researchers. Publishes poetry and fiction on their quarterly online magazine. Zuzu's Petal's sponsors writing contests and offers an online bookstore, arts news articles, and a discussion salon.

Citation Styles -- http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
The style to be used in citing source materials in research papers varies according to discipline. This site has information on how to correctly cite electronic sources employing the following styles: MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE... It also offers links to websites with information on how to cite using other styles.

Guide To Grammar And Writing -- http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Easy to use online guide that covers grammar and writing topics on the sentence, paragraph and essay levels. The writing is lively and colloquial, and there are interactive quizzes to test your knowledge as well as answers to frequently asked questions.

The Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators -- http://www.scbwi.org
SCBWI is a professional organization dedicated to serving the people who write, illustrate, or share a vital interest in children's literature. This web site exists as a service to members as well as offering some writers' market type information about the children's publsihing industry.

Writers Write -- http://www.writerswrite.com
Variety of links and resources for writers. Offers several proprietary newsletters including The Internet Writing Journal.

YourDictionary.com -- http://www.yourdictionary.com
A massive dictionary index that includes foreign language, thesauri and many specialized ones. Formerly A Web of Online Dictionaries compiled by Robert Beard at Bucknell University.

Writer's Guilds
Writer's guilds provide links to authors, as well as professional and fan groups.

Horror Writers Association -- http://www.horror.org/
Mystery Writers of America -- http://www.mysterywriters.net/
Romance Writers of America -- http://www.rwanational.com/
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America -- http://www.sfwa.org/
Western Writers of America --http//www.westernwriters.org