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General Resources

BookPage Online
This monthly online version of the publication BookPage is devoted to serving readers, libraries, booksellers, and publishers. It features up to 100 new book reviews per month as well as author interviews and articles.

BookSpot
BookSpot simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. Featured sites are hand-selected by BookSpot editors and organized into intuitive categories such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news, and more.

Bookweb
The American Booksellers Association represents independent bookstores nationwide. The ABA web site has Book Sense Picks, which are monthly reading recommendations from independent bookstores. It also provides lists of books to be reviewed in national newspapers and on radio and television

January Magazine
This site features reviews of new fiction, non-fiction, children's books and music, as well as interviews with authors.

Nancy Pearl’s Web Site
Nancy Pearl, author of Book Lust and More Book Lust, is known for her book reviews on National Public Radio. . Now you can go to her web site and read new reviews each week.

Notable Books for Adults
Each year, the Notable Books Council, a division of the American Library Association, selects 25 “very good, very readable, and at times very important” fiction, nonfiction and poetry books. This website provides access to the current year’s choices, including a brief synopsis of each title, as well as archived lists dating back to 1993.

Read North Carolina Novels
Created by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, it has links to novels set in North Carolina by author, geographic region, and county. It also provides a list of fictional towns. The site even lists North Carolina novels that are part of a series.

Mostly Fiction
Mostly Fiction includes reviews of new and old books in various categories, book excerpts, book lists, author interviews, and lists of books in series.

New York Times
The New York Times Books section offers featured reviews from the paper and from the New York Times Book Review magazine. It also gives you access to their bestseller lists, columns by their knowledgeable staff, essays on reading and writing, very active forums and a monthly book discussion group.

Overbooked
This site is a treasure trove for readers, because it provides access to a multitude of book-related sites for adults, young adults, and children. Whether you are looking for author information, reviews, e-books, reading lists, or more, you will find them here. Of special note are the Authors, Featured, Hot Picks, On the Fly, and Stars Lists sections.

Meet the Author
Check and see if the author has been interviewed on Reader’s Club.

DNA of Literature
Assembled by the Paris Review this website is an archive of the journal's famous interviews with world authors. They plan to eventually have all of their author interviews available free of charge. Currently available are interviews from the 50's, 60's and 70's.

Identity Theory
This online journal has insightful, in-depth author interviews. It also contains original fiction and nonfiction, excerpts from forthcoming books, and reviews. The review section of the website, called Book Rate, provides brief, refreshing commentaries.

Literary Encyclopedia
The Literary Encyclopedia is a growing reference web site that offers a look at the world of literature. The lives and works of many literary authors and other prominent figures, such as philosophers and musicians, are profiled. The profiles offer lists of the author’s works, their contemporaries and links to other web sites of interest.

Literary Locales
The website offers readers an excellent visual aid connecting the setting of the story with the novel. Sponsored by the English Department of San Jose State University, Literary Locales includes virtual tours, maps and pictures from such places as Steinbeck Country, the inspiration for Charles Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty’s castle to the many knolls described in Richard Adam’s Watership Down.

Today in Literature
This site spotlights literary events that occurred on that date in history. This site also has a wealth of information about authors.

African American Literature Book Club
This site features book reviews and discussions, author bios and interviews with African American authors about their books.

Barnes & Noble – The Book Club Center
It has printable discussion guides for fiction and non-fiction

Bookmovement
This web site offers reading group guides for over 500 popular book club titles.

Novelist
Novelist includes over 100 discussion guides, with more added each month. Each guide includes background and a plot summary, discussion questions (and some possible answers), and a list of suggested further reading.

Novello Press Book Club Resources
A list of discussion questions and book resources about Novello Press book titles. Also includes information about upcoming author book signings, new releases and ability to purchase books online.

Reading Group Choices
The "Central Resource Book Groups" contains full-text reading discussion guides for fiction and nonfiction from various publishers, as well as tips for starting and running a book club. Also includes a thorough index to other guides available on the web (click on Find a Guide.)

ReadingGroupGuides.com
This is a great place to gather ideas if you're interested in starting a reading group, or if the group you're already in just needs some new ideas: Book discussion guides, author bios, even recipes are included.

Google or another search engine
http://www.google.com/ Search the author and title and “guide” to find a discussion guide

Some Typical Discussion Questions
From Canadian Book Clubs.

What to Do When There's No Guide Available
ReadingGroupGuides.com offers questions to use with fiction books that have no reading guide.