Books, Book Reviews, Publishing, Style Guides, and Quotations
- Book Awards
- Book Preservation
- Book Reviews
- Book Selection/Shopping
- Publishing
- Style Guides
- Quotations
Book Awards
- Book Awards (BookWire)
- A comprehensive list of award winning books
- BooksUnlimited (London Guardian and London Observer, UK)
- Reviews, author talks, Prizes
- Prize-winning books on-line (University of Pennsylvania)
- You can read online the complete text of many books that have won major awards.
- Village Voice Literary Supplement
- Reviews include 25 favorites of 1999
Book Preservation
- Preservation: Frequently Asked Questions (Library of Congress)
- This site answers frequently asked questions about book care and preservation.
- A Simple Book Repair Manual
- Created by the Dartmouth College Library Preservation Services, this site discusses guiding principles to book repair, tools, and more.
Book: The Magazine for a Reading Life
- Book Review Sources
- (University of Pennsylvania Library)
- Book World (Washington Post)
- Reviews from the current issue only
- Booklist (American Library Association)
- Online reviews in all fields
- BookPage
- BookPage is a monthly book review distributed in print by more than 2000 bookstores and libraries. Features reviews of recent books.
- Bookreporter.com
- Book reviews and excerpts
- Books (Evening Standard, UK)
- Books and Talks (Los Angeles Times)
- BooksUnlimited (London Guardian and London Observer, UK)
- Reviews, author talks, Prizes
- Booksonline (Electronic Telegraph, UK)
- BookSpot
- Book reviews and book awards
- Books Unlimited Reviews (London Guardian and London Observer)
- Current page includes the best of 1999
- Chronicle Book Review (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Education Review: Journal of Book Reviews
- (Supported by Arizona State University (Glass) and the University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign (Burbules)
- Journal of book reviews on educational topics
- Finding Reviews of Works about History on the Internet (Austin Community College, Tx)
- Online publications devoted to reviews of history books
- Fore Word Online
- Independent and university press reviews ordered by category
- Foreign Military Studies Office Book Reviews (Center for Army Lessons Learned)
- List of books on military topics
- H-Net Reviews (H-Net Humanities Online)
- Online scholarly review journal featuring reviews in the Humanities and Social Science
- UPC Link
- This site links independent authors with the information they need for online publication or manufacturing.
- Library Research in History (San Jose State University)
- Books on historical subjects.
- Locating Book Reviews (Vassar College Libraries)
- Advice on locating book reviews including online versions
- Los Angeles Times, Book Reviews
- New York Review of Books
- Selected articles searchable from 1963 to 1994; all articles searchable from 1995 to the present
- Village Voice Literary Supplement
- Reviews include 25 favorites of 1999
- Dealtime.com
- Dealtime.com is a comparison shopping tool which visits all major online bookstores to track down the best price.
- Peter’s Digital Reference Shelf (Gale Group)
- Web expert Peter Jacso recently compared online book shopping through the major online vendors, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Borders. Jacso’s comments on search features, results display, and information on awards and authors make for good reading.
- PubList.com
- A web directory of publications gives free in-depth information on hard-to-find publications
- A Wired World for Old Books
- This Publisher's Weekly article by Karen Raugust reviews the changing faces and driving forces behind the digitization of rare books sales. Antiquarian book leaders in the e-commerce and traditional brick-and-mortar businesses discuss their trade.
- World Cat Top 100 Books in Libraries (OCLC)
- OCLC surveyed WorldCat, its online union catalog to determine the most common books found in libraries. The list of the top 100 books is at this site.
- Elements of Style, 1st edition, 1918(by William Strunk. Bartleby Library, Columbia University)
- MLA 1985 Style Manual (at George Mason University)
- APA Style Sheet (from Houston Community College Library)
- Turabian Style Guide (maintained by the Webmaster, University Libraries of The University of Southern Mississippi)
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations This tenth edition contains over 11,000 searchable quotations from the 1919 eition with supplements added by the new editor.
- Bartlett's Quotations, 9th ed. (Bartleby Library, Columbia University)
- Quotations: The Yale Dictionary
Current and comprehensive authoritative quotation dictionary. Very useful for contemporary quotations.
- Quotations Reference (Internet Public Library web site)
