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GREAT RESOURCES FOR READERS

Locate A New Book Or Learn About Literature

Novelist: 
Log in to this service using your library card number, choose Novelist, and then have fun...you can search for series, authors, or books with similar plots to ones you like!  Like an author?  You can see read-a-likes too!

Indie Bound:  A great site that lists upcoming titles which independent booksellers have deemed worthy of praise.

Book Page
Discover your next great read with reviews, author interviews, and lists of hot new titles

OverBooked
: A site that lists new fiction in many genres.Booklists of hot new titles, starred reviews for each year, genre lists of good books, and lists of hot picks for each year.

Chapter-A-Day: Listen to a chapter a day of hot new books...if you like it, grab our copy or download the audio version from our site!

Reader's Circle: We help people find local reading groups. Our site is a free online directory for face-to-face book groups, and it's zip code based!

Great Books Online
: Hundreds of books and poetry in full text...read them online!

Project Gutenberg: Thousands of online books in various formats.  Many can be loaded onto E-Readers free of charge.  Classics and titles ni longer under copyright.

New Hampshire Center for the Book:
A site that details what is happening in the NH literary world and lists New Hampshire authors.

Granite State Readers Recommend: A site where you can leave a book recommendation for others to view, or, read all the other reviews from NH communities!

Today in Literature:
Learn some great stories about literature!

National Poetry Association: Search for poems or poets, find links to more poetry web sites and learn about upcoming poetry events.


Book Award Sites
    
Edgar Award: Mystery and Suspense novels

Pen/Faulkner Awards: The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.

Pulitzer Prize for Literature: Covers fiction, poetry, music, drama, biography, non-fiction, and news reporting!

National Book Award: Covers fiction and non-fiction

The RITA Awards: Romance Writer's of America choices.

HUGO Awards: For best science fiction and fantasy titles

Bram Stoker Award: Best Horror Books

Spur Awards: Best Westerns

Hammett Awards
: Best Crime Fiction

National Book Critics Circle Award: Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews published in English

Man Booker Prize: Prizes for best International fiction

Agatha Awards: The Agatha Awards, named for Malice inspiration Agatha Christie, are awarded for the Best Novel, First Mystery Novel, Nonfiction, and Short Story in the genre for the previous year.

Nebula Awards: Best Science Fiction novels.