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Abebooks.com
http://www.abebooks.com - Marketplace for new, used, rare, and out-of-print books.

Alibris
http://www.alibris.com - Marketplace for used, new, out-of-print, and/or "hard-to-find" books, music, and movies .

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com - Online marketplace for books, music, movies, etc.

Barnes and Noble's Book Browser
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/subjects/subjects.asp?z=y - Book reviews from a variety of authority sources.

BookFinder.com
http://www.bookfinder.com - Marketplace for new, out-of-print and used books.

Books and Book Collecting
http://trussel.com/f_books.htm - Collectors site--search by subject, author pseudonyms or signatures, dustjackets, library, more; SetMaker helps to locate volumes of multi-volume works.

Elements of Fiction (Perspectives in American Literature) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/append/axg.html

January Magazine
http://www.janmag.com/ - Book reviews and author interviews.

New York Review of Books
www.nybooks.com/archives/ - Free access to the latest three months of reviews.

Oprah's Book Club
http://www.oprah.com/obc/obc_landing;html - The books featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Overbooked
http://www.overbooked.org - For "ravenous readers". Includes New Books, Reviews, Genre Fiction lists, Reader's Advisory Resources and Book Talk.

Rap Sheet
http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/ - Crime fiction blog from January Magazine; news, reviews, discussion, and related links.

Discussion Guides
(Many publisher websites also provide reading group guides.)

Reading Group Guides
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/ - 1000+ book discussion group guides available.

The Resource Center for Book Groups
http://www.readinggroupchoices.com - Excellent site for book clubs and discussions.

Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com - Preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse; unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

LibriVox
http://librivox.org/ - Download free audiobooks from the public domain, which are recorded by volunteers.

netLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com - A collection of books in digital form; included are Shakespeare, "The Idiot's" guides, and many others. First-time users must register first from within the library.

The Open Library
http://www.openlibrary.org - A collection of books in the public domain, which can be read online for free; a project of the Internet Archive.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.net - "The Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books," providing access to thousands of eBooks.