many literary links


Here are some links you might be interested in. If you browse the lists but miss anything, give any links for me to add by contacting me.

(reviewed) fiction authors with their own website – book blogs – online reading groups – reading group resources – books into movies – book shops – miscellaneous

(reviewed) fiction authors with their own site or blog:
Adams, Douglas
Albom, Mitch
Archer, Jeffrey
Atwood, Margaret
Ayckbourn, Alan
Barker, Clive
Beaumont, Matt
Begley, Louis
Binchy, Maeve
Bradbury, Ray
Brown, Dan
Buchan, Elizabeth
Card, Orson Scott
Coelho, Paulo
Crichton, Michael
Defoe, Gideon
Easton Ellis, Brett
Edgerton, Clyde
Feist, Raymond E.
Ferguson, Will
Foer, Jonathan Safran – tip!
Fforde, Jasper
Fry, Stephen – tip!
Gaiman, Neil
Greene, Niamh
Grisham, John
Guest, Judith
Haddon, Mark
Hamilton, Laurell K.
Harris, Joanne
Hornby, Nick
Huff, Tanya
Jackson, Mick
Ketchum, Jack
Keyes, Marian
Kim Grant, Amy
King, Stephen
Kinsella, Sophie
Laimo, Michael
Lofthouse, Jacqui
Lovecraft, H.P.
Ludlum, Robert
Maurier, Daphne du
McCall Smith, Alexander
McEwan, Ian
Mayes, Frances
Monk Kidd, Sue
Mostert, Natasha
Pessl, Marisha – Dutch site
Potter, Dennis
Pratchett, Terry
Rice, Anne
Roberts, Nora
Rowling, J.K.
Russell, Willy
Sansom, Ian – tip!
Sigler, Scott
Tessier, Thomas
Walker, Sue
Webb, Sarah
Weiner, Jennifer
Welsh, Irvine
Winterson, Jeanette
Wolfe, Tom
Zusak, Markus

other book blogs:
the american book center blog
books under the covers
reading is my superpower-tales of the super fast reader

online reading groups:
books2movies
bookjive

reading group resources:
amazon book clubs
book clubs resource
bookbrowse
bookreporter.com
penguin
penguin group (usa)
random house
random house vintage
reading group guides

books into movies:
bookreporter.com
edmonton public library
mid-continent public library

book shops:
alibris
the american book center – great book store, but I’am not completely objective here…I work there
amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
barnes & nobles
bookfinder – not a real book store, but a place to find books and their shops all over the world
english book service
international theater & film books
my own shop at amazon.com
my own shop at amazon.co.uk
penguin
penguin group (usa)
powell’s books
waterstone’s

miscellaneous:
art meets matter - a unique collection of bookish designs based on the classic penguin paperback book
book-a-minute – a list of books and their stories told in a few sentences – tip!
bookcrossing – release and catch books around the world
bookjive – free book summaries wiki
bookrabbit – an online community for book lovers – tip!
booksense – a cooperative site by independent-booksellers
brainiads – an advertising program for literary sites
goodreads – keep track of your friends reads and organise your own
myhound – find out what your favorite author is up to and get a message if something is new
shelfari – keep all your books in this online library
writers’s rooms – a look into some writer’s rooms