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Reading Resources Links

Highlights

Latest additions (new books and materials) to the San Diego Public Library for Adults, Young Adults, and Children: books, audio, DVDs, video, and more.
NetLibrary eBooks - see the Library's 500+ eBooks from NetLibrary
Arts and Letters Daily - essays and more from publications in the humanities .
Web Del Sol - literary magazines online.
Library's LOLA (Local Author Lifetime Achievement Award) recipients

Bestseller Lists

PW, NYT, Book Sense, and more
Library Journal™ Bestseller Lists, includes now Books Most Borrowed in U.S. Libraries, Fiction and Non-Fiction
Cader Books, archives 1900-1995

Reading Clubs and Guides

Award Lists

Much more...

California Center for the Book
BookSpot - portal to reading resources
Library Booklists and Bibliographies Book reading lists for fiction and non-fiction, calendar of author birthdates, reader group resources, and more.
Literature & Books at the Librarians' Index to the Internet
Links to the world's newspapers and magazines online, from the Internet Public Library.

Premium Resources
Valid San Diego Public Library card required

Books in Print - Professional bibliographic database with 5 million book, audio book and video titles, including reviews. Professional and patron versions.
Literature Resource Center - Biographies, articles, criticism, overviews, glossary, and more on writers and literature.
NetLibrary eBooks - Collection of books viewable online, includes Cliff Notes.
NoveList - Guide to suggested reading for all ages with reviews and other features.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) - Authoritative guide to English language meaning, history, usage, and pronunciation.

Digital Libraries and eText Archives

Digital Libraries and Images

University of Michigan OAIster and University of Illinois Cultural Heritage Repository union catalogs for hundreds of collections of online text, images, audio, and more.
Library of Congress American Memory - more than 7 million primary source items, including images - and Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
National Archives - more than 15,000 documents and over 58,000 images
University of Texas Map Collection - more than 5,000 maps
California image collections at the Online Archive of California and Los Angeles Public Library's Electronic Neighborhood.
UC Berkeley's SunSITE gateway to digital collections.

eText Archives

University of Pennsylvania's The Online Books Page - mroe than 17,000 titles, with emphasis on complete books. Also maintains a newspaper & magazine archive, and listings of other online sources for English, other languages, and special collections.
Project Gutenberg - index of over 10,000 electronic texts ("eBooks") available free. Includes works like Peter Pan, Bible, Shakespeare, and reference works such as Roget's Thesaurus.
Internet Public Library Books Collection - more than 20,000 titles, with strength in shorter works.
University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center - over 15,000 titles, with strength in shorter works and other languages.
NetLibrary eBooks at the San Diego Public Library