Awards

• Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards
  Literary awards for best crime writing and thrillers.
• Hugo Awards
  Annual awards for science fiction
• Man Booker Prize for Fiction
  Annual fiction award to writers from the British Commonwealth and Ireland
• Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards
  Literary awards given by the Mystery Writers of America.
• National Book Awards
  Presented by the National Book Foundation
• National Book Critics Circle Award
  Critics honor the best literature published in English in six categories-autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
• Nebula Awards
  Annual awards for science fiction and fantasy writing as selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
• Nobel Prize in Literature
  Awarded annually, a prize for an international author who has "conferred the greatest benefit on mankind."
• Pulitzer Prizes
  Several annual prizes for excellence in journalism, literature, drama, and music.

Bestsellers

• Bestseller Lists 1900-1995
  An archive listing the ten bestselling titles for every year from 1900 to 1995.
• IndieBound Bestsellers
  Bestselling books as reported by independent booksellers in the U.S.
• New York Times Bestsellers
  A weekly listing of bestselling fiction and non-fiction, in hardcover, paperback, and e-book formats.

Book Reviews

• African American Literature Book Club
  The #1 site for African American literature on the web. Includes book news, reviews, interviews, and more.
• BookBrowse
  The guide for avid readers with fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles, author information, and much more.
• Bookmarks Magazine
  Online version of a magazine for book lovers. Includes archived issues and many reviews.
• GoodReads
  Get book recommendations, keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read, form a book club, answer book trivia, and collect your favorite quotes.
• IndieBound
  Book reviews and recommendations from independent booksellers.
• Kirkus Reviews
  Founded in 1933, Kirkus reviews more than 500 pre-publication books each month, including fiction, nonfiction, children's and young-adult books.
• Library Journal Reviews
  Find impartial library book reviews on new and pre-publication books, best-sellers, fiction, non-fiction, literature, reference and more from Library Journal.
• Los Angeles Times Book Reviews and News
  The most recent week of book reviews in the Times. There is also access to online book reviews and a calendar of local literary events.
• New York Times Books
  The most recent week of the world's most popular book review, archived back to 1981.
• Publishers Weekly Reviews
  Weekly reviews from international news website of book publishing and bookselling.
• Words Without Borders
  Reviews, translates, publishes contemporary international literature; online magazine archived back to 2003

Library Resources

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• California Fiction Index
  Index to adult fiction which takes place in California. The index can be searched by author, title, locale, decade in which the story takes place, and/or major characters.
• Lit Finder*
  Access to thousands of full-text poems, stories, essays, plays, and speeches.
• Literature Resource Center*
  Broad range of subject content containing criticisms, biographies, primary sources, reviews, and multimedia on writers and works around the world.
• NoveList*
  A fiction reader's advisory database. Find books by the same author or similar books by another author. Browse by subject, genre, and theme for over 125,000 titles. Reviews, book discussion guides, and annotated book lists are constantly updated.
• Series and Sequels File
  A listing of fiction books for adults which are part of a series, or are sequels to earlier novels. It can be searched by author, title, and series name or characters.