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Awards and Prizes
**see also specific Fiction Genres**
- National Book Award: awarded by the National Book Foundation for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature published in the U.S.
- Pulitzer Prize: awarded for achievement in American journalism, letters, drama and music
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Booker
Award: awarded to the best full-length
novel written in English by a citizen of the U.K., the Commonwealth, or
the Republic of Ireland
- Nibbies: the British Book Award www.britishbookawards.co.uk/bba/pnbb_winners.asp
Book News & Reviews
- Bookpage: America's Book Review
www.bookpage.com
- Book Reporter: "where readers and writers
click"
www.bookreporter.com
- Publisher’s Weekly:
www.publishersweekly.com
- New York Times Review of Books: www.nybooks.com/nyrev/
Reading Suggestions
- If You Like... : Christchurch City Libraries, New Zealand
library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/IfYouLike/
- Hennepin County Library (MN) "If You Like..."
www.hclib.org/pub/books/iyl/
- Kent District Library What’s Next
ww2.kdl.org/libcat/WhatsNextNEW.asp
- Manchester Public Library What Do I Read Next? library.ci.manchester.ct.us/ra/readnext.html
- Reader's Advice Search for new books to read by author, genre and subgenre, or series www.readersadvice.com
More Sites for Book Lovers
- Organize Your Reading and Library Accounts: Internet services that can help you keep track of your reading and your library accounts www.jeffersoncountylibrary.org/reference/libacct_extras.shtml
- Overbooked: Specializes in literary and genre
fiction information. Includes author web pages, annotated lists of
nonfiction, fiction and mystery books www.overbooked.org
- Book Review
www.bookreview.com
- Digital Librarian: a librarian’s choice of the best of the Web www.digital-librarian.com/literature.html
- Digital Books/Books on the Web: Classic novels in html (some PDF editions, non-fiction, reference, poetry)
www.bibliomania.com
- Project Gutenberg: public domain editions in e-text
www.promo.net/pg/
- All Readers: extremely detailed search engine helps you find just the right read www.allreaders.com
Local Interest:
- JCL Bibliographies:
Fiction Genres:
| Mystery | Romance |
| Inspirational | Western |
| SciFi / Fantasy / Horror | Historical |
Inspirational:
- The Christy Award www.christyawards.com
- Overbooked: Inspirational Fiction
www.overbooked.org/genres/inspirational/index.html
- Follow Your Dreams: General Inspirational
www.followyourdreams.com
- JCL Bibliography: Christian Fiction Authors
Mystery:
- Cluelass: (includes mystery awards) www.cluelass.com
- Mystery Readers International www.mysteryreaders.org
- Stop You’re Killing Me!
www.stopyourekillingme.com
- JCL Bibliography: Award Winning Mystery Authors
Romance:
- All About Romance www.likesbooks.com/home.html
- Historical Romance Writers historicalromancewriters.com
- The Pink Pages www.celestinegreen.com
- Romance Writers of America: includes the Rita and Golden Heart Awards www.rwanational.org
Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror:
- Award Web: Comprehensive site that emphases
science fiction—includes the Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Awards
dpsinfo.com/awardweb/index.html
- Horror Writers Association: bestows the Bram
Stoker Award
www.horror.org
- SciFan www.scifan.com
- Uchronia: focuses on alternate history
www.uchronia.com
- Locus Online
www.locusmag.com
- JCL Bibliographies:
Western:
- Western Writers of America www.westernwriters.org
- JCL Bibliography: Spur Awards
Historical:
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Historical Fiction www.historicalfiction.org
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HistFiction.net: Authors & Books in Historical Fiction
www.histfiction.net