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Books and Authors: What Do I Read Next? includes over 100,000 recommended titles, more than 60,000 plot summaries, and awards information from 562 awards, all to help uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favourites, and discover award-winning titles.
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Gale Literature Resource Centre: Access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Over 90,000 authors covered, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
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NoveList: Reader's advisory service for fiction for adults and children. Use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. Besides locating books to read, users can learn more about books and authors through Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and BookTalks.
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Short Story Index: A detailed index of more than 76,500 stories from more than 4,025 collections. This reference database grows by 4,000 records each year, and includes coverage dating back to 1984.
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The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature: Published by Bloomsbury, 1997. Electronic Resource from Credo reference.
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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English: Published by Cambridge University Press, 1993. Electronic Resource from Credo reference.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature: Published by Oxford University Press, 2000. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature: Published by Oxford University Press, 1996. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature: Published by Oxford University Press, 1996. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature: Published by Oxford University Press, 2000. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms: Published by Oxford University Press, 1996. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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A Dictionary of Writers and their Works: Published by Oxford University Press, 2001. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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Literature @ Credo referenceplus: A collection of reference books covering Literature.
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Literature @ Oxford Reference Online: A collection of reference books covering Literature.
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Readers and Writers @ localeye: links to libraries, booksellers, publishers and writers in Christchurch.
From localeye - Your online guide to Christchurch and Canterbury.
Aotearoa New Zealand literary map: Celebrates our literary geography. Each area page has information about writers born in that region, literary information and literary quotes.
AustLit: AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between ten Australian Universities and the National Library of Australia providing authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 75,000 Australian authors and literary organisations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day.
Book publishers and distributors of Aotearoa New Zealand directory: An online directory which lists all New Zealand book publishers. Useful to get addresses and some background information of each publisher. In PDF format.
Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ): BPANZ is the trade association of book publishers and distributors in New Zealand and represents the interests of the industry to government and other agencies. Serves as a professional organisation, providing a range of services including training.
BookCrossing.com - Read and Release!
Books into film and television: Archive of the "book of the film" list based on movies currently showing and what's screening on free to air television.
Cambridge History of English & American Literature: From Bartleby.com
Chicklit: Aims to to increase your chick lit reading pile to towering heights; to provide a fun place to browse for books and chat with other fans of the genre; and to provide the latest, greatest and most thorough chick lit information available.
Contemporary Writers in the UK: This unique, searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers - biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs. Produced by the Literature Department of the British Council.
Early New Zealand Books Project: Aims to provide the keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century.
Encyclopedia Mythica: Mythology, mysticism and folklore from around the world. Provides articles, images, genealogy tables and correct pronunciations.
English @ Studyit: for NCEA students: Studyit is an online learning environment for NCEA english students.
Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales: provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages.
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International Institute of Modern Letters Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao: creative writing at Victoria University
Literature in New Zealand 1930-1960: Explore the context of the flowering of New Zealand literature. From nzhistory.net
Medieval novels: Your source for books set roughly between 500 and 1600 AD
MysteryNet: Online mysteries, mystery games, mystery books and resources. For everyone who enjoys a mystery�
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
New Zealand Guild of Storytellers: The objectives of the Guild include preserving and practising, promoting and enjoying the ancient art of storytelling. The Guild provides current information on storytelling events and visiting storytellers and news about happenings with New Zealand storytellers.
New Zealand Literature File: Provides references to enable you to locate the works, reviews of work and biographical information on a selected list of New Zealand and Pacific Island authors.
The Odyssey: Reading books leads to winning prizes
Overbooked: Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about literary & genre fiction as well as readable nonfiction. Includes author web pages, reviews, themed and title booklists.
Pseudonyms: The pseudonyms list contains popular fiction authors and their pseudonyms. Click on the down arrow and scroll to select the author you want. From Gladstone City Library in Queensland, Australia.
Seattle Public Library: Reading Lists: Collection of reading lists for children, teens, and adults, created by staff at the Seattle Public Library. Includes a series of lists on Pacific Northwest explorers and travellers, fiction set in Seattle and Washington state, Seattle mysteries, local science fiction and fantasy authors, and more.
The Thrilling Detective
Uchronia: The Alternate History List: Uchronia: The Alternate History List is a bibliography of over 2800 novels, stories, essays and other printed material involving the "what ifs" of history.
Whichbook.net: Search for books by genre or type, including happy/sad, conventional/weird, funny/serious, romantic/realist, sex/no sex, and types of characters, plots, settings, etc. Each book has a reader comment, sometimes an extract, and the option to search for similar titles.

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