Books
Digital Books - digital books available from Overdrive, NC Live, and others
Novelist - Available through NC-LIVE, assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.
New York Times Book Review - Available through NC-LIVE, read book reviews online.
Book Share - Accessible Books and Periodicals for Readers with Print Disabilities
Free E-Books.net - Read and Download eBooks for Free - Anytime!
The Gutenberg Project - Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).
The Online Books Page - Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web
ManyBooks.net - Thousands of free e-books available in multiple formats
World eBook Fair - provides access to three and a half million ebooks
North Carolina
Read North Carolina Novels - A guide to recent fiction set in North Carolina. Compiled by the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill.
General
Based on the Book - List of selected books that have been made into movies
BookBrowser - "the guide for avid readers"
Booklists - Many book list categories from Springfield Public Library
Bookreporter.com - The Book Report Network helps readers find their next good book with thoughtful book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, literary games and contests, and more every week.
Modern Library's 100 Best Books
The New York Times Book Review
Novelist - Available through NC-LIVE, assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.
Oprah's Book Club
Overbooked specializes in literary and genre fiction information
Reading Group Choices - Discussion guides and recommendations for book club
What's Next - Kent District Library's "What's Next" helps you search adult fiction in series. A "series" is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits.
African American Authors
African American Literature Book Club - articles and reviews, as well as content and links on authors in many categories
QBR.com: the Black Book Review Online - African American Authors and books are featured in book reviews, interviews, and a readers' forum
Children's and Teen's Books
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
Online Bookstores
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Books-a-Million
Borders
Online Magazines
Booklist
Bookpage
R.R. Bowker's Bookwire - a comprehensive and thorough online information source about the book industry
Library Journal
Publisher's Weekly - The online version of the International News Magazine for Book Publishing and Bookselling
Literary Criticism, Study Guides & Author Information
Anglistik Guide - An alphabetic list of author-specific sites and bibliographic sources
The Gale Group Literary Index - a master index to the major literature series published by Gale.
15,000 Useful Phrases
Inter-Play - an on-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals
Internet Public Library Literary Criticism
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - Shakespeare's works, life and times, criticism, and more
SparkNotes - online, free study guides to classic literature
YA Author and Illustrator Biography Pages