Bestsellers and Best Books lists
- Amazon Best Sellers - Most popular products based on sales. Updated hourly.
New York Times Bestseller List
USA Today's Best-selling Books: What America's Reading
Oprah's "The Reading Room"
Booklists and more.
Publishers Weekly Bestseller List
Publishers Weekly Best Books 2011
Booksellers, Book Reviews, Textbook Rental
- Amazon.com Books - A
million titles for sale at discount prices
Barnes & Noble
- Books for sale, plus author features, chat areas, bargain bin,
magazines and software.
Booklist - Current and advance reviews for fiction and
non-fiction books from the pages of the American Library Association's
Booklist magazine.
Bookwire -The first place
to look for information about books and publishing on the Web.
Includes author tour information, Publishers Weekly bestseller
lists, and answers to frequently asked questions about publishing.
Chegg Textbook Rental - Rent or buy your textbooks and save hundreds of dollars.
Children's Literature
Web Guide - An exhaustive resource for children's books,
including recommended titles for children and young adults, awards,
lists of movies and television shows based on children's books,
and much, much more.
Cooperative Children's
Book Center - Children's book award rosters and information
on discussions, lectures and workshops on children's and young
adults books.
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Bookclubs Resource.com - Links to virtual
book clubs, book-related newsgroups and discussion lists, as
well as resources for off-line book clubs and online books.
Women's Lit Site -
from BellaOnline, The Voice of Women
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Antiquarian Booksellers
- abebooks.com - Librarians can purchase rare,
used and out-of-print books with credit cards or Purchase Orders.
Alibris - The source
for rare and out-of-print selections from a worldwide network
of dealers.
Bibliofind - Largest
site for the sale of books on the Web.
BookFinder.Com -
Search for new and used books by author, title or other keywords
and then query numerous vendors.
Booksearch Online -
Full-featured, Internet-accessible book entry and search service.
Powell's Books - The
online version of the famous Portland, Ore. mecca for bibliophiles,
offering a wide variety of both new and used books.
Rereadables - The
place to go for bargain-basement shopping for financially-strapped
book lovers.
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Book Discussion Guides for Book Clubs and
Reading Groups
Most of the guides included in the following sites
contain introductions to selected books, some provocative questions
to get discussion going, and information about the authors.
- Wisconsin
Public Library Book Club Collection - available for check out through
your local library
Books@Random
- Readers Group Guides from Random House
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- HarperCollins
Reading Guides
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- SimonSays-
Reading Guides from Simon & Schuster
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- Vintage
Books & Anchor Books Reading Group
Center
Miscellaneous
Outstanding Books for College
Bound and Lifelong Learners - a booklist from the American Library
Association
College Bound Booklist compiled by Arrowhead
Library System
From Books to
Movies - 'Based on the Book' is a compilation from Mid-Continent Public
Library of over 1,200 books, novels, short stories,
and plays that have been
made into motion pictures.
Updated 25 July 2012
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