Book Related Websites

[Adrianna, Owner of Cafe Libri]

This discussion thread is for members to post url links to book related websites.

Please no video links here. We have a specific discussion thread for these types of links in Video Links (about books or authors).

List of Book Links

1. Book Movement
2. Book Browse
3. Fantastic Fiction
4. Academic Lectures
5. American Library Association List of Frequently Challenged Books
6. Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

Places to Search for Free Books:

1. Feedbooks
2. epub Books

[Adrianna, Owner of Cafe Libri]

Here are two book websites shared with Yahoo Cafe Libri Group.

The first one is Book Movement, and it offers the following services to reading groups:

1. Live Book Club Bestseller List
2. Book Club Planner with reading guide database
3. Book Reviews by Book Clubs
4. Free book giveaways

The second one is Book Browse.

This site offers book recommendations.

Enjoy browsing, members!

[Adrianna, Owner of Cafe Libri]

CK wrote: "Fantastic Fiction

Bibliographies of over 30,000 authors of fiction. I love to use this site to see what an author has written or what is coming up for publication from that author. The homepage..."

Nice! I've never heard of this site before, but it's always helpful to have a quick list of bibliographies for our favorite authors!

[Pauline]

http://academicearth.org/subjects/eng...

This site has some academic lectures about various novels. Some of them are pretty interesting. =)

[Adrianna, Owner of Cafe Libri]

Pauline wrote: "http://academicearth.org/subjects/eng...

This site has some academic lectures about various novels. Some of them are pretty interesting. =)"

Wow! That looks like a neat site/idea. I'm going to check out some of the videos in the near future. These would probably be good as teaching tools too! Thanks for sharing the link, Pauline!

[Ronyell]

CK wrote: "Fantastic Fiction

Bibliographies of over 30,000 authors of fiction. I love to use this site to see what an author has written or what is coming up for publication from that author. The homepage..."

That website looks awesome!!! This is definitely useful for keeping up with your favorite authors!!

[Ronyell]

Pauline wrote: "http://academicearth.org/subjects/eng...

This site has some academic lectures about various novels. Some of them are pretty interesting. =)"

This website sounds great Pauline! I love hearing lectures about novels so this will definitely get my attention!

[Ronyell]

Rabbit Ears

This site has books and DVDs of the classic Rabbit Ears series that was once shown on Showtime. The stories in Rabbit Ears consists of stories from around the world, storybook classics and tall tales and they are narrated by popular celebrities of the 80s and 90s which includes Danny Glover, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Holly Hunter, Robin Williams and Denzel Washington. Anyone who loves fairytales and folktales and listening to famous celebrities narrate this series will definitely love this website!

[Ronyell]

CK wrote: "I'm glad you like it, Ronyell! :) I've used it for a few years now and it's one of the quickest ways for me to check up on authors. If you can get used to the website colors, it's a handy URL to h..."

Thanks!! It really does sound like a great website!!

[Adrianna, Owner of Cafe Libri]

I posted a couple of new links that will be useful for those who want to participate in Banned Books Week this September:

American Library Association List of Frequently Challenged Books

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

[Ronyell]

Adrianna wrote: "I posted a couple of new links that will be useful for those who want to participate in Banned Books Week this September:

American Library Association List of Frequently Challenged Books

Banned ..."

Thanks Adrianna!! I've been trying to find a website dedicated to banned books for a long time! Thank you so much for the websites!

[Adrianna, Owner of Cafe Libri]

Glad you found them useful, Ronyell!