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Full-text coverage for more than 2000 popular magazines and journals, including Booklist, Library Journal, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, and Publisher's Weekly.

Online resources

Download audiobooks & eBooks and listen to audiobooks on your PC or portable media player.

Biographical and critical articles on current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television.

Full text of poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches.

Index and abstracts to almost 3000 magazines covering a broad range of topics. Many are available in full-text, dating as far back as 1990. Includes an image database, the American Heritage Dictionary, access to full-text of Essential Documents of American History and Essential Historical Speeches, as well as full-text articles from Magill Book Reviews, covering classic literature and best sellers.

NextReads

Get great book suggestions via email! NextReads are monthly e-newsletters on different topics -- Armchair Travel, Fiction A to Z, Popular Culture, Romance, and many more!

NEW! Check out the Author Read-alikes! If you've read everything by your favorite author, subscribe to these newsletters for more suggestions.

Definitions and translations from over 100 full-text dictionaries on foreign languages, art, history, literature, science, and more.

Websites

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Devoted to the big names in fiction, this website offers interviews, biographies, bibliographies, and points to the websites of best-selling authors.

This all-encompassing site includes book reviews, awards, criticisms, and genre listings. BookSpot also offers children’s book resources.

An email book club. Each day, you’ll get a five-minute sample from a book. But the end of the week, you’ll have read two or three chapters. If it’s a book you want to finish, visit the library!

Access over 2000 bibliographies of the best science fiction, fantasy and horror authors. Searchable by author or title.

A comprehensive site, ranging from classical and Biblical literature through twentieth century literature, theatre and drama, literary theory, women's literature and feminism, ethnicities, and nationalities, and other national literatures.

Annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet, and includes categories such as, Works, Life and Times, and Criticism.

Weekly reviews, bestseller lists, and yearly “best of” lists.

Graphic novel reviews for teens.

This site provides access to the many book lists associated with Oprah’s television show, magazine, book club and personal bookshelf.

Access to hundreds of reviews of a wide range of new romance titles. Author profiles, biographies, and photos are also featured.

A British site designed to help you match your mood to the perfect book.

Webrary
A treasure-trove of fiction resources from the Morton Grove (Ill.) Public Library. What should I read next?

This British site uses user favorites to make recommendations. When items are entered into the same favorites list, they become associated with each other. The more often particular items appear on different lists, the stronger that association becomes.