Reader's guide to the internet

Booksellers

These pages are often great places to browse, even if you are not intending buying anything. You will find large amounts of book related information, including reviews and details of recent and forthcoming publications that you might like to borrow from your local library!

• Amazon Bookstore
• Foyles 
• Blackwell's
• WH Smith
• Waterstones

Crime, detective and mystery

• Crime Writers Association of Great Britain - includes a good, if limited, links page with several author and publisher sites.
• Mysterious Homepage - a guide to Mysterious and Crime fiction on the Internet.
• Over My Dead Body! - an online mystery magazine.
• Mystery Writers of America.

Horror

• Classic horror short stories - largest collection of classic horror stories on the Web.
• Fantastic fiction - compilation of searchable bibliographies of science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors.
• Horror Writers Association - includes recommended reading lists plus links to other related sites.

Literature

• Book Lovers - Fine books & literature.
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - the complete texts of Shakespeare's works on the Internet.

Poetry

• Bartleby Poetry Archive - excellent poetry search engine giving access to 1,000s of poems online.
• BUBL English Poetry Links - excellent list of links to pages about the great poets.
• PMPoetry: Patrick Martin's Poetry Resource - lots information for poets and poetry lovers.
• Poetry Book Society - a unique organisation with the aim of keeping people all over the world up to date with new English language poetry. They recommend the best available new poetry books every quarter.
• The Poetry Library - the national library for poetry based at the South Bank Centre in London - good for answering really difficult poetry enquiries!
• Poetry Portal - guide to the Internet poetry world.
• Poetry Society - the society for poets and poetry lovers giving details of events, awards and developments in the poetry world.

Prize winners

• The Man Booker Prize
• The Orange Prize for Fiction
• Costa Book Awards

Romance

• The Romance Reader - the place to start for any one interested in romantic fiction - very American!
• Romance Writers of America - again plenty of information for the romance reader.

Science fiction/ fantasy

• Fantastic fiction - compilation of searchable bibliographies of science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors.
• The Friends of Fandom's Science Fiction page - a great site for all things Science Fiction, including a guide to authors on the web.
• The Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List - self explanatory!
• The Recommended Fantasy Author List
• The Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide - links to almost 6,000 Science Fiction sites on the Web!

Other sources of information

• BookBrowser - impressive collection of fiction reading lists covering a wide range of genres.
• Books (BBC) - lots of information about books and authors, including news, profiles, quizes and awards.
• Open Book (Radio 4) - spotlighting new fiction and non-fiction, the best paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces.
• The On-Line Books Page - a directory of books which can be freely read on the Internet.
• Overbooked - great site providing an enormous amount of information about literary and genre fiction.
• whichbook.net - a completely new way of choosing what to read.