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All About Books

• African-American Literature Book Club--with book profiles and reviews (including children's books)
• Allreaders -- a search engine that allows you to search for a book by plot, setting, characters, or theme.
• Author Interviews -- from CNN
• Black Issues -- African American book reviewers "devoted to covering both fiction and nonfiction books written by black authors."
• Books for Writers  -- from Writer's Digest
• Book Arts Resources--illustration, bookbinding, typography and calligraphy
• BookBytes --Marylaine Block's columns about books, plus her annotated bibliographies of books too good to put down 
• the Book Reporter--book reviews, author interviews, and a gift guide by subject. 
• Book Reviews Galore--fiction, nonfiction (all topics), humor, you name it
• Booksense.com--an independent bookstore site that has reviews and recommendations and allows you to shop the independent bookstore nearest to you online. An antidote to the massive book merchandisers.
• Books in Depth  -- reviews in selected journals and newspapers
• Books That Change Lives--great achievers of the 20th century tell you about the books that mattered to them.
• Directory of Publishers and Vendors -- alpha as well as by suject.
• Free Audio Books -- only books that are in the public domain, read by volunteers.
• Gutenberg Bible --The first printed book. . . .fully digitized by the British Library, searchable, it includes history and background info.
• Internet Book Information Center 
• Iowa Literary Landscape -- a bibliography of  both adult and children's fiction set in Iowa. Alphabetical by author.
• Man Booker Prize -- from Great Britain
• Meet the Writers -- podcasts from Barnes and Noble book store
• Midwest Book Review-- Links to all kinds of book-related sites, including book review sources.
• National Book Critics Circle -- list of useful book and criticism sites from newspaper, magazine and online publications. The Circle also awards for fiction, non-fiction, autobiography and criticism.
• National Center for the Book
• New York Review of Books
• New York Times Book Reviews-text of NYTBR, plus search all book reviews since 1997; free with registration.
• Orange Prize for Fiction
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction -- America’s largest peer-juried fiction prize
• Pulitzer Prize
• Read Across America--NEA's campaign to motivate children to read. 
• Readers' Robot--a personalized book recommendation system