More Picks and Research

Look It Up

• Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online
  Dictionary with audio pronunciations
• Bartleby.com Great Books
  Consult a collection of classic reference works including dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, quotations, English usage, mythology, the bible, and more.
• Literature Resource Center
  Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses for over 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Access with your library card.
• CliffsNotes
  Summaries and commentary for hundreds of literary classics.

Book Communities

• Book Lust
  Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Wiki, an online community for book lovers.
• CaliforniaAuthors.com
  An independent online publication dedicated to the proposition that California’s often fragmented literary scene, its authors, publishers, booksellers and readers, deserve a voice of their own.

More Suggestions

• BookPage
  Reviews and recommendations
• What Do I Read Next?
  Find books similar to past favorites. Includes plot summaries and lists by genre. Access with your library card.
• Librarian’s Index to the Internet – Reading Recommendations
  More book lovers’ sites from librarians.
• National Public Radio’s Book Page
  Reading suggestions, interviews and excerpts. Lots of podcasts and RSS feeds.
• The Internet Public Library
  The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.