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- AbeBooks.com - search 13,500 booksellers selling 100 million books
- Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 655+ fables
- Alice In Wonderland - comprehensive site dedicated to the book and all its spin-offs
- Amazon.com - "Earth's Biggest Bookstore"
- Amazon.co.uk - a friend says US buyers can save money on imports by ordering direct from Amazon UK
- American Rhetoric.com - hundreds of examples of great speeches, interviews, etc.
- Atlantic Online: Fiction - stories and poetry from The Atlantic Monthly
- Audible.com - downloadable audiobooks, magazines, newspapers and radio shows
- Audio Book Club - see: SoundsGood.com
- AuthorHouse - a self-publishing service
- Author Webliography - links to author pages from Austen to Yeats (what, no Zappa?)
- awards:
- BarnesandNoble.com - "The World's Largest Bookseller Online"
- Bartleby.com - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and more than 100 classic works
- Bibliomania, The Network Library - e-texts of classic novels and poetry, study guides
- Blake and Union - William Blake collection at Union College's Schaeffer Library
- BookCrossing - a book-trading cooperative
- Book Soup - bookstore in West Hollywood
- BookWire - reviews etc.
- Bookworm (KCRW-FM) - listen to recent programs online or download podcasts
- Borders (Amazon.com)
- Ray Bradbury [official site]
- Brothers Grimm - a National Geographic site
- Rita Mae Brown [official site]
- Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. [tarzan.org]
- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907-21
- truman capote: a black + white tribute
- The Chelsea Hotel (NYC) - historic home-away-from-home to famous writers and musicians
- Classic Short Stories - big selection of e-texts, new titles added every month
- Cliche Finder
- Cliff's Notes - read study guides online for free, download PDF's at small charge
- Andrei Codrescu:
- Common Errors in English
- Michael Crichton [official site]
- Charles Dickens (Literature.org) - complete text of some of his greatest works
- Dr. Grammar - Your Rx for Writing Ills
- Dr. Seuss:
- Electric Earl's Music Archive - includes lyrics for 185 songs, with RealAudio clips, chord changes
- Electronic Texts on the Internet - big list from "My Facts Page"
- EmilyStrange.com
- Engrish.com - real-life English typos from Japan [example: a CD labeled "Eric Crapton"]
- Etext Archives - electronic texts of all kinds
- Exquisite Corpse - literary journal edited by poet Andrei Codrescu
- www.FetchBook.Info - easily compare prices of any book among 126 bookstores, 60,000 sellers
- F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (USC)
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts - extensive collection
- Ken Follett [official site]
- Allen Ginsberg [official site of The Allen Ginsberg Trust]
- Google Book Search - search complete text of books
- Grimm Brothers @ nationalgeographic.com
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - complete text plus study materials
- Mystery Time Line
- Jenny Holzer's Truisms - slogans flash on your screen, you can also suggest changes or submit sayings of your own
- Nick Hornby:
- IdiomSite.com - origins of common sayings (slang words & phrases)
- International Collection of Tongue Twisters - in dozens of languages
- InterText: The Online Fiction Magazine
- ISBN search:
- Erica Jong [official site]
- Kerouac Speaks - sounds of Jack Kerouac reading (and singing) his prose
- Stephen King [official site]
- LibriVox - download free audiobooks of public domain works, read aloud by volunteers
- List of Dictionaries
- Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature - Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century, Restoration & 18th Century
- Rod McKuen - A safe place to land
- Edna St. Vincent Millay:
- Modern Language Association - makers of the famous MLA Stylesheet
- Mortified: Woe and Tell - embarrassing old photos, poems and diaries
- MysteryGuide.com - reviews of hundreds of novels
- The New York Review of Books
- The Online Books Page - thousands of books that you can download for free (from University of Pennsylvania)
- Page By Page Books. Read Classic Books Online, Free.
- Dorothy Parker's New York
- Penguin Classics
- Edgar Allan Poe (the reason they call it poetry?):
- Poetry:
- Project Gutenberg - thousands of downloadable public-domain works
- The Quotations Page - includes links to other quote collections
- The Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism
- Random House
- Read Print - free online library, download all the classics
- Anne Rice [official site]
- Arthur Rimbaud: The Drunken Boat
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus
- Michele Serros [official site]
- Anne Sexton:
- Shakespeare:
- WH Smith - bookseller based in the U.K.
- Sonnet Central - an archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, links
- SoundsGood.com - downloadable audiobooks
- Bill Thompson's Eye on Books - author interviews, book summaries, literary quotes
- Today In Literature - great stories, people, books & events in literary history
- Today's Pun
- Travels With Samantha - an award-winning e-book, with text and photos:
- Mark Twain at Large: His Travels Here and Abroad
- The Unh! Project - a collection of guttural moans from comics
- VLS: Village Voice Literary Supplement
- Walt Whitman: Poet at Work - the four Walt Whitman Notebooks [Library of Congress]
- WHOM - check out the controversy over the word whom (Google search results)
- Winnie the Pooh and Friends: An Expotition Through the Hundred Acre Woods
- Wired for Books: Community Reconsidered (Ohio University) - features RealAudio programs about fiction, writers reading their works
- The Wren's Nest - home of Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus tales (Br'er Rabbit and Tar-Baby)
- Yahoo! Arts:Humanities:Literature - thousands of links grouped by category
- ZAHIR Unforgettable Tales: A Journal of Speculative Fiction
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