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Linkcat The public library catalogue for south central Wisconsin (SCLS)
Project Gutenberg Books online for free!
Turning the Pages™ View historic books online. Amazing stuff.
Book Communities and Book Lists
LibraryThing Catalogue your books and much more
The Big Read From the BBC
BookCrossing Featured on WPR's Kathleen Dunn show. Share books by leaving them laying out in public and track them online.
BookLists on Lists of Bests
To the Best of Our Knowledge Books Books from the want-to-know-it-alls at WPR.
Gnooks "a self-adapting community system" Weird. Fun. Try it.
Madison Public Library Book Resources Awards, lists, and a bunch of other stuff.
Great Books Lists The Western Canon and whatnot.
NYRB Books "The NYRB Classics series reintroduces some of the many remarkable books that have fallen out of print, or simply out of sight, in recent years."
Penguin Reading Guides Advice and guidance from the Penguin publishing house.
BookTV - C-SPAN2 on weekends.
St. John's College Sort of education by reading the the Western Canon - Do they have football team?
Very Short Introductions "Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology." So far there are 162 books.
UW Press Books published by UW Press.
Book Awards
Daggers Several awards for British-published crime novels.
Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually for the best nonfiction book on an American theme published the previous year
Lincoln Prize & Douglass Prize & The George Washington Book Prize From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Man Booker Prize "Now in its thirty-ninth year, the prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland."
National Book Foundation Home of the National Book Awards
Powell's Award Winners Page A ton of prize winners in one place.
Young Adult Book Lists From the ALA
Book Reviews & Discussion
Guardian Book Reviews Brits on books.
IdentityTheory "a regularly updated, socially conscious web magazine that covers literature, music, film, and art."
Christchurch, New Zealand Library Recommended reads from folks who live upside down.
Metacritic "Metacritic's mission is to help you make an informed decision about how to spend your money on entertainment."
New Yorker Books Check out their great political reporting while you're there.
New York Review of Books According to Esquire "the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language."
Author Web Sites
Bernard Cornwell's web page - master of British historical fiction
Boccaccio's Decameron A masterpiece of the Middle Ages - sort of an Italian Canterbury Tales.
Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer's life and works.
Elmore Leonard Crime fiction with hip humor
Flashman Society Devoted to George MacDonald Fraser's Harry Flashman
Richard Dawkins Scientist, author, atheist
Steven Saylor historical fiction set in Rome
The Unofficial Tony Hillerman Homepage Hillerman is the prolific author of the Leaphorn-Chee mysteries are set in contemporary American Southwest and the Navajo and other Native communities.
Madison Area Book Stuff
Author Appearances in the Area From the pages of The Capital Times.
Madison Public Library Book Resources Awards, lists, and a bunch of other stuff.
Monona Public Library Get updates on our library.
Wisconsin Book Festival celebrates books every October in Madison, Wisconsin.
Places to Buy Books
Amazon 'nuff said
AbeBooks Buy and sell used books.
BookSense the web presence of a collection of independent booksellers
Half-Price Books Used book in real bookstores!
Powell's Books the great Portland, Oregon bookstore
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http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
http://mostlyfiction.com/history.htm
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
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http://www.patrickobrian.com/
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