Great Sites: Reader Advisory

• ALA Resources To Help Children, Parents & Teachers Deal With 9-11-2001

• Bartleby.com, sample of literature, reference, & verse for students & researchers

• Bibliomania.com, free world lit & reference bks, including bk summaries & study guides

• The Forbidden Library: Banned and Challenged Books

• Kent District Library, MI, info to search adult fiction in series

• Novelguide.com, premier free source for literary analysis, character profiles, for over 60 works

• Online Literary Criticism from the Internet Public Library, locate by author or title

Authors

• a.k.a, Author Pseudonyms

• Bibliomania.com, free world lit & reference bks, including bk summaries & study guides

• Children's Authors & Illustrators on the Web

• IPL Online Literary Criticism Collections--Authors

• Sparknotes.com, "Cliff Notes"-like resource with info for literature, biography, Shakespeare, & more

• Speculative Fiction of Colo, listing science fiction, fantasy & horror authors in Colo., along with author website links

• Yahoo! Authors

Awards

• Agatha Awards, mysteries

• Bellwether Prize for fiction, in support of a literature of social change

• Costa Book Awards, best of contemporary British writing, formerly Whitbread Book Awards

• Edgar Awards, mysteries

• Hugo Awards, science fiction

• National Book Awards, best works in fiction, nonfiction, poetry

• National Book Critics Circle Awards, book reviewers awards

• Nebula Awards, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature, Nobel laureate authors

• PEN/Faulkner Awards, best American fiction

• Pulitzer Prize Archive, fiction, US history, biography, and more

• Romance Writers of America Awards, RITA

• Spur Awards, Western Writers of America awards

• Tattered Cover Bookstore, select "Award Winners" from top line choices

Children and Young Adult Book Awards

• Alex Awards, top adult book for teenage readers

• CO Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Winners, student selected

• Coretta Scott King Award Home Page, authors/illus. of African descent for children's books

• John Newbery Medal Home Page

• Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors author's lifetime achievement in writing for YAs.

• Michael L. Printz Award, for literary excellence in YA lit

• Randolph Caldecott Medal Home Page

• Rangeview Library District List of 2007 Medal Books 

• US Children's (& YA) Book Awards, over 25 national and regional awards

Best Seller Lists

• Barnes & Noble Top 100 Bestsellers

• Bestsellers Lists 1900-1995, from Publisher's Weekly

• Denver Post, Local Bestsellers (Click on Books in directory)

• LJ Prepub BestSellers, "click" on Bestsellers

• New York Times Bestsellers

• Publishers Weekly Bestsellers

• USA Today newspaper's Top Bestsellers

Booklists

• "If You Like" booklinks from staff at Hennepin County Public Library, MN

• 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women

• ALA Notable Books, lists current adult books and links to ALA site

• Booklist Editors' Choice

• Fiction L Booklists, many lists from librarians at Morton Grove Public Library, Illinois

• Hungry Mind Review's 100 Best 20th Century American Books

• Modern Library, 100 Best Novels

• New York Review of Books' Reader's Catalog

• Romance Reader Top 100 List

• Who Reads What? Celebrity Reading Lists from Gardiner Public Library, Maine

• YALSA Booklists, Young Adult Library Services division of ALA lists

Series and Sequels

• What's Next? series by author, title, or series name

Last updated: 16 May 2008 10:08 AM Mountain Time
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