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Reading Advice and Literary Criticism

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Reading Advice

NoveList Plus
NoveList Plus Tell Novelist a title you enjoyed and it will suggest similar reading. You may search for novels by subject, author, and title. Book book club discussion guides and essays are also available.

Books and Authors
Books and Authors Books and Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, it helps bring readers and literature together.

BookPage Reviews
BookPage Reviews highlight new books worth reading. Included are links to bestseller lists and profiles of popular authors.


Online Texts of Poetry, Stories, and Plays

Litfinder
LitFinder Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more!


Literary Criticism

Literature Resource Center
Literature resource center In Literature Resource Center, you will find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Literature Resource Center adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.