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Literature

General
Reading Recommendations and Reviews
  • Magpies: The Source
    Access this children's literature online database from any library PC by clicking on "Login to The Source with an IP address". Then search for books and poems by title (or first line for poems), author, subject, genre, or age suitability; or search the awards DB for winning titles and authors.
  • Allreaders.com
    A database of author and book reviews searchable by plot, theme, character, and setting.
  • The Booklist Centre  
    Includes over 200 booklists in more than 50 categories showing not only award winning books but also recommended lists of books selected by authorities in dozens of fields.
  • Christchurch City Library: If You Like   
    If you like books or music in a certain style or by a particular author or composer, you may wish to explore some of these.
  • Halton Hills Public Library
    Readers advisory service with lots of thematic book lists.
  • Hennepin County Library: Reader to Reader     
    The If You Like database links readers to fiction books they might enjoy. You may use the file in either of two ways. To search by keyword, enter an author's name or a theme (for example, "horror") or, you may browse a complete list of the 'If You Like' subject categories.
  • MGPL Webrary     
    Many discussion topics on Fiction, the Morton Grove Public Library's mailing list for reader's advisory issues, result in compilations of books on a particular theme, authors with similar styles, etc. Many of these booklists are then made available on the web site, accessible through this index.
  • Reader's Robot
    Books reviews by genre, very searchable!
  • Rocky River Public Library: Reading Room     
    The Reading Room is designed to link authors and titles with other authors and titles the reader may enjoy. It consists of thousands of titles read and reviewed by Rocky River Public Library staff.
  • State Library of Tasmania: Readalike
    suggestions for readers who enjoy the work of a particular author and who would like to read other works written in a similar style and/or genre.
  • whichbook.net
    Uses intuitive way to help readers find material by mood, plot, character, setting and other non-standard approaches.
  • Book Reviews On Video
    BlueRectangle.com offers video book reviews (book reviews on video). Concise and fascinating insights into a wide variety of books, by a wide variety of book reviewers.
Children
Poetry
  • Verse Novels and other Narrative Poetry for Teens
    Edmonton Library's list of narrative poetry held in their library - can be useful when searching for epic poems for secondary school students.
  • Encyclopedia: Epic poem
    Definitions and descriptions of epic poetry including a list of notable examples of the form.
  • Bartleby.com
    A vast collection of literature (reference, poetry, fiction and non-fiction) available in full text and free of charge.
  • The Poetry Archive
    Listen to or read the Poetry Archive poems! The poems on this UK site are searchable by title, author, by themes and poetic forms.

  • Poets.org
    From the Academy of American Poets, you will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings - with new material being added constantly.

  • Cordite
    Cordite Poetry Review is an Australian bi-annual online poetry journal dedicated to showing off new and established Australian poets to the world.

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