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Book Clubs
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Authors
If you are interested in a particular author and want to find out more about his or her writing, or if you are searching for a pseudonym or biographical information  - here is where you find it

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Books

BooksNovelist will help you to select fiction to read, based on books you have read or topics you are interested in. Novelist provides extensive subject & keyword access to over 70,000 fiction titles & 17,000 subject headings. 

BookBrowser website offers fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles and author information, created by librarians of the Monroe County Public Library in Bloomington, Indiana.

Based on the Book is a compilation of selected books that have been made into movies released in 1980 or later. Search is possible by title of movie, year of movie release, title of book, and author of book.

What's Next! Kent District Library's service helps you keyword search adult fiction in series.

Celebrities Reading List Gardiner Public Library, Gardiner, Maine website allows search by celebrity's name or by the year from 1988 to present.

Adult Readers Lists Mid-Continent Public Library's Adult Readers Book List is a compilation of 34 genre reading lists arranged in alphabetical order. 

Book Awards Lists Mid-Continent Public Library's Book Awards compilation in five genres: literary, mystery, science fiction, romance and western with special emphasize on romance awards.

MIRAGe Reader's Advisory Links The Mid-Illinois Readers' Advisory Group, formed October 1993, is a group of librarians who are interested in developing their Readers' Advisory skills and in promoting literature and reading for pleasure.

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Book Clubs Book Clubs

Book Clubs by Interest is an index done by Book-clubs.com, a "all-in-one-place" portal for finding information about particular books clubs as well as for finding book clubs that match your professional, leisure or other needs.

Rachel's Annotated List of Book Clubs classifies book clubs in four ways: Web-Based (text and comments on the web); Web-Enhanced (books read off-line and discussed via a web site); E-mail-Oriented (discussion occurring via an e-mail list); and Live Chat.

Book Clique Cafe is a member-driven, member-led online reading community with tips on creating new online or regular book clubs.

Oprah's Book Club Oprah's show started this book club with 8 to 10 book selections a year, a book club library with previous selections from 1996, Oprah's personal favorites, and online discussion.

Reading Group Choices gives expert advice on running a successful book group, features book choices for discussion from 1995 to present, and provides author/title book search options.

Book Venue features chat room, members selected quotations from their favorite books, booklist with reviews submitted by club members.

Jane Austen Readers is for everybody who enjoys Jane Austen novels. This book club has the most comprehensive discussion of every novel and adaptation based on Austen's works.

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AuthorsAuthors

Poets & Writers Magazine Online features a directory of 3,000 American writers and poets.

Gale Literary Index helps to find which Gale literature series include entries on an author.

WritersNet is the place for writers to showcase their work and exchange ideas on the Web. It is also useful if one needs to find a writer for a specific writing job.

A.K.A. Over 10,900 entries of author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms des plumes, maiden names arranged in alphabetical order.

American Authors covers some American authors from 1550 to 1950.

British & Irish Authors covers some of the British and Irish authors from c600 to present.

The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism contains 4492 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Authors on the Web attempts to bring together literary author biographies available on the World Wide Web. The biographies vary in quality, timeliness, length, and authority.

LSU Libraries Author Guide contains pointers to individual literary author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers.

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