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Virginia Vesper, Collection Managment Librarian
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN

Awards

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Books which have won awards for excellence are often good reading choices. Each genre has its own awards for the best titles of the year. Literary awards and prizes honor both fiction and non-fiction titles.

Literary Awards Extensive List of Literary Awards from Canterbury Public Library, including all the well known awards such as the Pulitzer, Hugo, Edgar Allen Poe, etc. and others not so well known. Bookwire-Book AwardsAnother extensive list of international and national awards for books and authors from Bookwire.

Lists of Best Books

Critics, editors, journalists often compile lists of what they consider the best or most interesting book titles. You may find that you agree with their choices.--Or you may not.

Harvard Book Store Picks Recommended titles with short annotations for both fiction and non-fiction. The Independent Reader Books Reviews and the best picks from independent booksellers.

Best Sellers

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• Best Sellers in the MTSU Library
• Publisher's Weekly Bestseller List
• USA Today's Top 50 bestsellers in the USA.

  Bibliographies

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• BookBrowserA guide to genre reading with lists of books in series, geographic location, occupation of sleuth, etc.
• If you Like If you like---, Try this--. A unique listing of popular fiction from a New Zealand public library.
• Native American Books
• Reader's Advisory Links Links to bibliographies, listservs, and all kinds of other web sites with reading lists and guides to good and fun reading.
• Bibliographies from Chicago Public Library Looking for a list of baseball fiction or alternative histories? This site has a bibliography for every interest from Chicago-related fiction to theological romances and shaggy God stories.
• Lists of Best Books and Bibliographies
• Popular books in Psychology Recommended popular books in psychology. Titles include those for self-help and personal discovery.
• Humor in Mathematics Annotated bibliography of humorous books on Mathematics.
• Montana Authors
• Literature and Medicine Annotations and online texts for poems, short stories etc. about medicine.
• Men's Studies An annotated list of 100 books about the men's movement.
• Gardening Bibliography
• Landscape Architecture Bibliography
• Herbal BookwormBooks about herbs.
• Surfing Bibliography

  Women Writers

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• Great Books by Women 500 great books by women from Penquin books.
• Celebration of Women Writers
• Herspace's Literary Links
• Women of Color

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  Historical Fiction

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• Civil War Fiction
• Soon's Historical Fiction Site Extensive site with many bibliographies and recommendations from members of rec.arts.books.hist-fiction.
• Vietnam War Literature Novels, poetry, comics, etc.

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  Horror

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• The Horror and Fantasy Homepage
• Dark Echo's Horror Web
• Horror in Literature
• Horror Online Links FULL-TEXT horror novels, E-zines, and other stories.
• Horror Literature
• Dean Koontz Annotated Bibliography Includes excerpts from selected novels.

  Listservs

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• Listservs for Fiction. A list of listservs for genre fiction with instructions on how to subscribe from BookBrowser.

  Guides from other Libraries

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• Reader's Advisory Services Suggestions for reading from the Los Angeles Public Library. Bibliographies in the various genres.
• Virtual Readers' Service Desk
• Reader's Advisory-Fiction
• Reader's Robot
• MMC Newstand on the Web

  Reviews

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• Amazon Books Search for a specific book; then check for recent reviews from Booklist, Kirkus, and Publishers' Weekly.
• Electronic Book ReviewsOn the cutting edge.
• NYTBR Full contents of the Sunday New York Times Book Review. Additional book and author information. You must register to view the site, but there is no fee.
• Internet Book Information Center
• Fiction Reviews Reviews of current popular fiction from USA TODAY.
• Christian Science Monitor Short review of current fiction and non-fiction best sellers, long reviews of selected titles, lists of special books.
• Top 50 The top 50 best sellers in the U.S. from USA Today.
• National Public Radio Picks Books featured on National Public Radio from Amazon books. For a list of sites that review books, see Bookwire Index to Review Sources. Try the following sites also.
  
• Boston Book Review
• Rettig on Reference Reviews of reference books.
• Reviews of Computer books
• Quarterly Black Review of Books
• History Reviews Online
• Chapter OneThis site has the table of contents and the first chapters of books reviewed by Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs and other reviewing sources.
• Soundview Executive Book Summaries Reviews of business books.

  Reading Groups

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• Guides from Vintage Books Includes questions for discussion, author info, description of the book, etc.
• Virtual Reading Group Join the Virtual Reading Group.
• Reading Group Guides Penguin Books has a series of Reading Group Guides for current titles. The Teachers' Guides are also very useful, especially for classics.
• Publisher's Weekly All the info you need to get started with a Reading Group.

  Vampires

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• Vampire Romances
• Vampire Fiction List of recent Vampire fiction from the Queens Libray in New York.
• Books with Bite

  Westerns

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• Roundup Magazine Published by the Western Writers of American inc.
• Western Writers of America
• Fiction:Westerns List of current titles from Bantam/ Doubleday.
• Westerns List of Western Authors with links to their home pages.

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