Books, Book Reviews, & Publishers

Reviews are submitted by users of this site. Arranged by the usual genres, titles may also be found by choosing desired plots or sub-plots e.g. food, taboo sex, family hate (or) love, religious overtones, love triangles etc. etc. An excellent "Readers' Advisor" type of source.

Selects from the most interesting interesting and current books and provides the reader with multiple reviews and a substantial excerpt of each.

Published by the American Library Association.

Book summaries, bibliographic data, and full text reviews from more than 2,000 journals. Covers fiction, non-fiction, children's books and reference works. Updated weekly. Also includes Book Review Digest Retrospective, which contains excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction for the period 1905-1982.

The Law and Politics Book Review is sponsored by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. This source reviews almost every book about the legal process and politics.

Excerpts from the current print issue and searchable archives back to 1963.

Full text of the NYT Book Review since 1996.

Excerpts from the print publication of book publishing and bookselling; includes a search option for articles in archived issues.

From the Sunday book edition.

From the Sunday book edition.

Collection of full texts with a concentration on English language literature and philosophy maintained by Eric Lease Morgan of North California State University.

Digital texts of all kinds from the University of Virginia Library.

Searchable index of more than 12,000 books maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom

Texts of hundreds of public domain books.

Users can search the full text of books and download classic public domain books.

Public access to select books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion and fiction.

Books on science, engineering, and health, many of which can be downloaded for free in PDF format.

This "educational site [is] intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world." Includes digitized facsimiles of "some of the great books in science, including books by Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, [and] Darwin"; most of the Shakespeare Quartos; musical scores by Beethoven and Mozart; the 1455 Gutenberg Bible held by the Library of Congress; and many more. Searchable, or browsable by topic, author, or library. Annotation: Copyright 2007 by Librarians' Internet Index.

Search for millions of used, second-hand and out-of-print books; registered users can create an account of wanted books to track new titles added to the database.

Price comparison service for 41 online booksellers.

Searchable site for locating hard-to-find books, with comparisons of available editions, the condition of the volume and the price.

Offers customer reviews and selections from professional reviews; lists other books purchased by customers who bought a particular book; site also includes music, video, gifts and auctions.

Offers professional and customer reviews; includes out-of-print books, live chat with authors, and links to related Web sites.

Offers a search for books by title, author, keyword or ISBN and compares prices among 28 online bookstores .

Searches the inventories of over 40,000 booksellers from around the world for new, used, rare, and out-of-print books.

Instantly compare book prices for sale at 130 bookstores. Includes students' textbooks. Books masy be purchased online from this site.

Includes textbooks.

Records of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American publishers. Now including Publishers, Distributors & Wholesalers of the U.S. which is updated quarterly. Updated weekly.

Collection of lists by genre and topic with an emphasis on award winners compiled by Dr. David Wilson Taylor.

Vast site on the book industry including reviews from many sources, awards, events, calendar of author tours, and much more.

Collection of publishing resources.

Browsable list organized alphabetically, by geography, and by subject.

Extensive list of publishers organized by category