Laurel’s Book Links

Pick Your Favorite Canon:

• The Bellwether Prize for Fiction
• The Giller Prize
• GoodReads Choice Awards
• The Hugo Award
• Indiebound Indie-Next list
• The National Book Award
• The Man Booker Prize
• The National Book Critics Circle Award
• The Nebula Award
• The New York Times bestseller lists
• The Nobel Prize in Literature
• Oprah’s Book Club
• Otherwise Award (Formerly the Tiptree Award)
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
• The Pulitzer Prize
• The Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
• The Whitbread Book Award
• Alison Bechdel’s great cartoon essay tracks reader guilt over not reading all of the above listed works.

Misc. Book Sites:

• The Invisible Library. Brian Quinette’s cool database of fictional literature mentioned in other literature
• Wonderful anime series about spies for the British Library, Read or Die.
• My ongoing list of novels about academia–soon to be annotated
• This story links to a pdf of the accumulated books currently on board the International Space Station
• LibraryThing: What’s on your bookshelf?
• Search the full text of books and discover new ones with Google Books
• Faber Finds. Nominate great books to be reprinted.
• Check out that nagging allusion at Bulfinch’s Mythology
• Bookcrossing.com. A global book exchange. Release books into the world and track where they end up!
• Literature Map: An AI interface for finding new writers you will like.

National and Virtual Bookstore Sites and
Book Buying Portals:

• Abebooks. World’s largest online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books
• Alibris.com. Used, new, and hard to find books
• Amazon.com
• Barnes and Noble
• BetterWorld Books. New and used books. Free U.S. Shipping. The proceeds fund literacy programs.
• Booksprice.com. A service for finding the best price on the purchase of several books together. It seeks the store with the best offer for all all the books in the cart (including shipping costs) and links to it.
• Chegg. Mail order semester-long textbook rentals.
• English Language Books. A source for books in English
• FindersCheapers.com Compare prices across sellers by book title
• Globe Corner Bookstore. Travel books and maps
• The Stars Our Destination. Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. (Their Chicago and Evanston storefronts have closed–now an online store only.)
• Daedalus Books. Discounted books and music
• Powell’s Books. Independent bookstores. Online since 1994, also with seven locations in the Portland area
• AddALL. Searches over 40 book sites and compares prices
• Gallileus. German portal searching book sites around the world
• Chambal.com. Searches book site by ISBN number

Book Blogs:

• • Arts and Letters Daily
  • Beatrice
  • Book Ninja
  • Book Slut
  • The Complete Review
  • Guardian Unlimited: Books
  • Good Reports.net
  • if:book A project of The Institute for the Future of the Book
  • Jezebel: Fine Line, Weekly critiques of YA books
  • The Los Angeles Review of Books
  • Maud Newton
  • Moorish Girl
  • The New York Review of Books
  • The New Yorker Book Blog
  • The Reading Experience
  • ReadySteadyBook
  • So Many Books
  • Writers Read

Bookish Social Media Sites:

• • GoodReads
  • LibraryThing

Texas Bookstore Sites:

• Book People. The largest bookstore in Texas. In Austin
• 12th Street Books. Scholarly, rare, and out of print books. In Austin
• Six good sources for comic books in Austin
• Half Price Books. Dallas-based new and used bookstore chain, with stores in 11 states
• Recycled Books Records and CDs. In Denton
• The Twig Book Shop. In San Antonio

Utah Bookstore Sites:

• Back of Beyond Books. Specializing in natural history, environmental titles, southwestern guidebooks and maps, Native American titles, and Western history. In Moab
• The King’s English Book Shop. Specializing in fiction, non-fiction, mysteries, belles lettres, and children’s books. In SLC
• Sam Weller’s Books. New, used, and rare books, with specialties in Mormonism, Indians, Geology and writers of the West. In SLC

Chicago Bookstore Sites:

• After-Words Books
• Barbara’s Bookstore
• Centuries and Sleuths
• Powell’s Bookstores. Used and rare books, specializing in scholarly books
• Prairie Avenue Bookshop. Architecture books
• Quimby’s Bookstore. Zines, books, comics
• Seminary Co-op Bookstore. Best source for new scholarly books
• Evelyn C. Leeper’s annotated Listing of Chicago Area Bookstores

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