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Finding Author Information |
| Barnes & Noble: Meet the Writers Features author profiles, interviews, book lists, and suggestions for further reading. |
| BookSpot.com - Authors Author Information from a number of different websites. |
| Literature Resource Center Search this very useful database first for biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of more than 120,000 contemporary authors.
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Finding Book Reviews |
| AllReaders.com Allreaders.com features detailed book reviews from many different genres of books! You can also enter a book review and get listed as a scholar! |
| Amazon Amazon.com - Search by author or title and find customer reviews, as well as excerpts from review publications. |
| Barnes & Noble.com - Welcome to Book Browser Get reviews, recommendations, new releases, and more on your favorite subjects! |
| BookPage.com Reviews of newly-released books. |
| BookSpot.com Features book reviews and news, reading lists, and author and publisher information. |
| Bookwire BookWire offers reviews of titles you won’t find anywhere else! We specialize in unique titles with topics ranging from alternative medicine treatments to fictional murder mysteries. |
| New York Review of Books The online version of the biweekly book review and journal of intellectual currents.
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| NPR Book Reviews Reviews of books by authors who have recently been interviewd on NPR. |
| NY Times Book Review Book reviews from the NY Times. |
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Finding Discussion Guides |
| Amazon.com Book Clubs Free, printer-friendly reading group guides to a number of popular titles, as well as numerous reading suggestions. Just browse the subject lists or search for a specific title, and then look for the "reading group guide" link on the left side under "Book Information." |
| Barnes & Noble.com:The Book Club Center Thousands of printable discussion guides for fiction and nonfiction. |
| Google Try a search with a book title or author's name and the word "guide". |
| NoveList An online tool that helps identify new books to read, Novelist also includes over 100 discussion guides, with more added each month. Each guide includes background and a plot summary, discussion questions (and some possible answers), and a list of suggested further reading. (Click "Start", then scroll down.) |
| Reading Group Choices The "Central Resource Book Groups" contains full-text reading discussion guides for fiction and nonfiction from various publishers, as well as tips for starting and running a book club. Also includes a thorough index to other guides available on the web (click on Find a Guide.) |
| Reading Group Guides.com "The Online Community for Reading Groups" includes reading guides by category, title, and author name, as well as advice, interviews, recipes, and a newsletter. |
| Some Typical Discussion Questions Questions from Canadian Book Clubs. |
| What to Do WHen There is No Guide Available ReadingGroupGuides.com offers questions to use with fiction books that have no reading guide. |
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Finding Good Books for Discussion |
| Book Spot All sorts of book lists from award-winners to great summer reads, links to authors online, book news, book events, and more. |
| Find a Good Book From the Hennepin County eLibrary. Get reading suggestions from online databases, book lists, book reviews. Sign up to sample books in your e-mail. |
| Recommended Books for Discussion A lengthy, annotated list full of great reading ideas from the Washington Center for the Book; there's also a list of Companion Books for Book Groups, for discussing books in pairs. |
