STARTING POINTS

Michigan Electronic Library - Literature, http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=1299&pathid=4236
You can jump to best book lists, award sites, book reviews, and genre sites.
 

GENERAL SITES

Books in Print (BTPL Subscription Database)
http://0-www.booksinprint.com.catalog.btpl.org
Books currently in print, as well as out-of-print and forthcoming books, all searchable by author, title, and subject.
 

IF YOU LIKED... Sources of Suggestions for Similar Authors and Titles

Fiction Connection (BTPL Subscription database),
http://0-www.fictionconnection.com.catalog.btpl.org/welcomeclouds.asp

If You Like...from the Canterbury Public Library, www.ccc.govt.nz/Library/IfYouLike
Great lists of similar authors, courtesy of a library in New Zealand

Novelist (BTPL Subscription Database), http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=novelist
Use this subscription database to find books to read based on other novels you've liked, authors you enjoy, or types of fiction.

Reader's Advisory from the Halton (CA) Library, www.library.hhpl.on.ca/readers.asp
Long lists of fiction topics, from aboriginal peoples to werewolves.

Reader's Robot, www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/rr.html
Lists for popular fiction genres as well as a link to Library Journal's "Word of Mouth"series.

Virtual Reader's Service Desk from the Morton Grove Public Library
www.webrary.org/RS/rslinks.htm
Reading lists for a variety of nonfiction topics, as well as many fiction lists.

What Do I Read Next? (BTPL Subscription Database),
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/WDIRN;jsessionid=6B1903A7DEC1758D204EE8BC3F81E638?locID=lom_blfield
 

WHAT'S NEW AND WHAT'S HOT?

Amazon.com Bestsellers,
http://www.amazon.com/Books/b/ref=sv_b_3/103-6586589-6087020?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=549028

Book Sense, www.booksense.com
Lists and information from independent booksellers around the country.

CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS

Amazon.com, www.amazon.com
Includes reviews from leading sources.

BookPage -- America's Book Review, www.bookpage.com

Literary Resource Center (BTPL Subscription Database),
http://0-infotrac.galegroup.com.catalog.btpl.org/itweb/lom_blfield?db=LitRC
Biographical information on over 90,000 current writers, excerpts of criticism of literary works written since 1900, and detailed essays on 2,000 major writers.

Magill on Literature Plus (BTPL Subscription Database),
http://0-web.ebscohost.com.catalog.btpl.org/ehost/search?vid=1&hid=14&sid=dcf7f550-0a98-40bb-a3d8-f09f9477d395%40sessionmgr3
Includes plot summaries, biographical information on authros, as well as criticisms.

POETRY

Bartleby.com, www.bartleby.com/verse/
Focuses on poetry from standard anthologies such as the Oxford Book of English Verse and the collected works of poets such as Rupert Brooke, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost.  Can be searched by keyword, and includes biographies, a pronunciation guide, criticisms and more.

Poem Finder on the Web (BTPL Subscription Database), http://0-www.litfinder.com.catalog.btpl.org
Continually updated, international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present. Includes 600,000 indexed poems and 50,000 full-text poems.

Poet's Corner, www.theotherpages.org/poems
An online anthology with 6,000+ poems, with alphabetical indexes of authors, titles/first lines and subjects.
 

BOOK DISCUSSION GUIDES AND INFORMATION

Amazon.com, www.amazon.com
Includes literary reviews and reader's comments.

FreeBooknotes.com, www.freebooknotes.com
Variety of free book summaries, literature notes, and study guides (like "cliff notes") for over 250 books.

Reading Group Choices, www.readinggroupchoices.com
New books to discuss, how to start a group, and advice for leaders are all here. Also offers discussion guides for books by both large publishers & independent presses.  Click on "Find a Guide" to search by title, author or subject.

Reading Group Guides, www.readinggroupguides.com
A collection of hundreds of reading guides from many publishers. Features a "find a guide" search feature that offers the ability to browse by title, author, subject or genre.