Deschutes Public Library

Online Resources for Book Lovers


Hot Reads
Click here for lists of the hottest new books and staff favorites.

Forthcoming Titles
Review titles and place a hold for books currently on order.


What to Read Next

DPL Recommends
Book suggestions based on favorite authors, titles, or genres.  For example, if you liked Cold Mountain, try the Cold Mountain link.  For even more reading suggestions, try our NoveList database.


Genrefluent
Maintained by Diana Tixier Herald (Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests and Teen Genreflecting), it offers links to Historical Fiction, Crime, Romance, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.


Reading Rants
Annotated booklists crafted especially for teens.


SparkNotes Online Study Guides
Study guides written and produced exclusively by Harvard students and graduates.  Character descriptions, chapter-by-chapter summaries, and study questions for over 100 classic titles.


What's Next
A reference for finding works of fiction in a series.



General Resources

Bookspot
A directory of book-related sites on the web.


Bookwire
R.R. Bowker's site with links to a wide variety of book-related sites and information, including Publisher's Weekly, awards, author tours, publishers, bestseller lists, and review sources.


Library Thing
LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their own books collections. Plus, you can access your catalog from anywhere - even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.


NYPL for Readers and Writers
Lists of book from new to old from the New York Public Library.


WorldCat
Find items in libraries around the world. 

Authors

Author Indexes
Bookwire's annotated list of Web sites that maintain author indexes.


Online Literary Criticism Collection
Contains hundreds of links to critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.


Poets & Writers Online
The online version of the Directory of American Poets and Fictions Writers contains almost 4,000 names and addresses of writers.

Awards

Refdesk.com Award Lists


Children's Book Awards
The most comprehensive guide to English-language children's book prizes on the web.

Book Clubs

Rachel's Compendium of Online Book Discussions
Annotated lists of online book clubs and book discussions, online resources for off-line book discussions, and some online reading sources.


Reading Group Choices
Offers suggestions on how to start and run a book discussion group and what to read for the group.  suggested books have brief plot summaries and a list of topics to consider for discussion.

Online Books

EServer Drama Collection
A collection of long and short English drama plays and criticism.


EServer Fiction Collection
Collection of online fiction by such authors as Alcott, Bronte, Cather, Dickens, Twain, and Hardy.


Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
Directory of links to folklore and mythology from around the world.


Great Literature On-Line
Online versions of literary works with background information about the authors.


LibriVox
LibriVox offers access to free downloadable audiobooks available in the public domain.  Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. They are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.


On-Line Books Page
A directory of books that can be freely read on the Internet.

Reviews

Booklist
The digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine.


LJ Digital
The online edition of Library Journal.  Includes late-breaking news, weekly InfoTech updates, and bonus reviews not available in the print version.


New York Review of Books
Includes a complete searchable index of the magazine's contents from 1963 to the present. The site currently contains the full text of all pieces published in the Review since November 1996.  


New York Times Book Review
Includes an archive of more than 50,000 reviews, book-related news pieces, bestseller lists, and interviews back to 1980.  Note: This is a free site, but you must register for access.