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Nonfiction - 3rd Floor
How to Read and Why - 028 Blo
The Crafty Reader - 028 Sch
100 One-Night Reads – A Book Lover’s Guide - 028.1 Maj
The Book that Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate
the Books that Matter Most to Them - 028.8 Boo
You’ve Got to Read this Book -
028.8 You
A History of Reading - 028.9 Man
Good Books Lately – The One-Stop Resource for Book Groups….
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374.22 Moo
Reference - 1st Floor
Books of the Century – A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and
Literature
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028 Boo
Some of the century’s best books reviewed in The New York Times
by some of the century’s best authors. Covers 1896 to 1997.
Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury -
R 028 Kan
Bibliophile and reviewer Robert Kanigel discusses “eighty of the
world’s most unforgettable books.”
The List of Books – A Library of Over 3,000 Works
- R 028 R
Quick overviews of important books from antiquity through the 20th
century.
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
- R 028 Sey
Short essays on those books that have formed the “history of thought
from ancient times to today.”
Book Review Digest – 1929-present
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028.1 B
Very short excerpts from book reviews of the previous year.
Master Plots
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American Fiction Series;
Poetry Series;
Short Story Series -R
808.8 Mas
Plot summations and explorations of themes and characters.
Book Review Index
- R 809.03 Boo
Citations of reviews of books in popular magazines and scholarly
journals.
Finding Additional
Material
Novelist, Literature Resource Center, EBSCOhost, and Infotrac Onefile
- Access from the Library or
at home using your library card
number at
www.wppl.org.
Search for full-text articles in these online databases using
your choice of keywords. You can limit the search to a
certain year or even a certain magazine.
Web Sites
Book Pages:
Authors interviews and
reviews of approximately 100 books each month.
BookSpot’s Book
Reviews: BookSpot’s organized links to other newspaper,
magazine, online review sites and much more.
Four Great Children’s Book Sites:
The Bookhive,
Carol Hurst’s Children’s
Literature,
Just for Kids Who Love Books, and
KidsReads.
January Magazine:
An online magazine dedicated to a wide range of book reviews and
featuring author profiles.
Modern Library – 100 Best:
Modern Library’s 100 best novels, 100 best nonfiction books, and
Radcliffe’s 100 best novels.
(See also,
Time
Magazine’s 100 Best Novels from 1923-present.)
New York Times Book
Review: The Times’ Sunday Book Review
including archives, bestseller lists, interviews and full-text first
chapters.
Morton Grove Public
Library’s Websites for Book Lovers:
Links for reviews,
discussions, genre fiction, media spotlights on books and more.
New York Review of Books:
Book reviews, essays on politics, culture and the arts by some
of the world’s premier writers.
Reviewing the
Evidence: Thousands of mysteries and thrillers reviewed.
***See also dozens of other Book Review
sites at the Library’s Good Web Sites webpage. From our homepage (www.wppl.org)
click on Reference Resources, go to Good Websites
then
Literature & Reading.***
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