Booklover’s Toobox: Topics A-B

 

Alternate History Novels

• Uchronia

Audiobooks for Free, Computer Downloadable

• AudioforBooks
• Books Should Be Free
• Free MP3 Audio Books
• Internet Archive’s Audio Books & Poetry
• Learn Out Loud [nonfiction only]
• LibriVox
• Light Up Your Brain [for kids]
• Open Culture
• Overdrive [for cardholders at most U.S. public libraries, via their websites]
• Podiobooks
• Project Gutenberg
• Storynory [for kids]
• Thought Audio

Author Blogs, Lists of

• Goodreads Members’ List of Popular Authors’ Blogs
• Internet Writing Journal’s List
• Newpages.com’s Blogs by Poets & Writers
• Red Room Writers Society’s Editors’ Picks

Awards and Award-Winners

• Amazon.com’s Lists
• Award Annals’ Literary Award Database
• Bibliomania’s List
• BookBrowse’s Lists
• Bookprizeinfo.com
• BookReporter.com’s List of Recently-Announced Awardwinners
• BookSpot’s List
• Flashlight-Worthy Books’ Lists
• Lists of Bests Lists
• Open Directory’s List
• Readers Read Awards Lists
• Wikipedia’s Worldwide List of Literary Awards and Winners
• Yahoo’s List of Literary Awards

Bestsellers Lists

• American Booksellers Association’s Independent Bookstore Bestsellers
• Bestsellers at Amazon.com
• BookSpot’s Lists
• Publishers Weekly

Bibliographies, Fiction

• Fantastic Fiction
• Internet Book List

Bibliophiles, Gifts for – see Gifts, Literary-Themed

Blogs (Local & Otherwise), Recommended Literary

• Amazon.com’s Blog
• Arts & Letters Daily
• Baby Got Books
• Bibliophile Bullpen
• Book Beast (at The Daily Beast)
• The Book Bench (at The New Yorker)
• Bookforum.com
• Bookslut
• Citizen Reader
• The Elegant Variation
• Frognall Dibdin’s Shelves
• Georgia Water and Books
• The Millions
• Salon.com
• Shelf Life
• The Book Shopper – Atlanta/Decatur
• Verb

Book Clubs see Reading Groups

Book Collectors & Collecting*

*Source: “An Alternative List of the Top 20 Sites for Book Collectors”

• Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
• AbeBooks.com
• Alibris’s “Rare and Collectible Books”
• American Exchange
• Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
• Biblio.com
• Bibliomania
• Bodleian Library
• Bookfinder.com
• Fine Books and Collections
• Frognall Dibdin’s Shelves
• The Grolier Club
• Hyraxia
• Independent Online Booksellers Association
• International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
• Library of Congress
• LibraryThing
• Lux Mentis, Lux Orbis
• The Private Library
• Private Libraries Association
• Rare Book School (University of Virginia)

Book Donations

• BiblioBuffet’s Directory of Organizations Accepting Book Donations

Book Festivals (see Literary Festivals, Local)

Book Price Comparisons

• AddAll
• AllBookstores.com
• Book Burro
• Bookfinda
• Book HQ
• BestWebBuys
• BookFinder4U
• BooksPrice.com
• FetchBook.com
• ISBN Spy
• PriceScan
• Spotcost
• SwoopThat

Book Recommendations see Reading Recommendations

Book Rentals by Mail

• BookSwim

Book Reviews see Reviews

Book Sales, Local (including sales at local public libraries)

• Book Sale Finder (Georgia)
• Book Sale Manager

Book Swapping, Free

• BookMooch
• FrugalReader
• PaperBack Swap
• SwapSimple
• SwapTree
• TitleTrader
• What’s On My Bookshelf

Book-Themed Gifts – see Gifts, Literary-Themed

Bookchat (Publishing Industry News)

• ArtsJournal
• BookNinja
• GalleyCat
• MobyLives
• National Public Radio
• Publishers Weekly
• Readers Read Blog

Booklists

• Multiple topics:
  • Amazon.com’s Listmania Lists
  • Berwyn (Illinois) Public Library’s Bibliographies
  • BookBrowse’s Reading Lists by Genre, Time, Place, & Theme
  • Bookmovement’s Best Books Index
  • BookSpot’s  Genre List Archive and Other Book Lists
  • Conversational Reading’s Lists
  • Flashlight Worthy’s Lists
  • Morton Grove Public Library’s Fiction Book Lists
  • Overbooked’s Lists
  • Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklingberg County’s Booklist Archive
  • Seattle Public Library’s Reading Lists for Adults
  • Waterboro (Maine) Public Library’s Library Booklists and Bibliographies
  • Williamsburg (Virginia) Regional Library’s Bookweb: WRL Booklists
• Single Topics:
  • Armchair Travel:
    • Bibliopolis (titles resulting for the searching the term “Armchair Travel”)
    • BookSpot’s One for the Road
    • Globe Corner Bookstore’s Catalog
    • LibraryThing’s Titles with “Armchair Travel” Tags
    • Packabook (searchable-by-setting novels, memoirs, travel guides, more)
    • Salon’s Top Travel Books and More Top Travel Books
    • A Traveler’s Library
    • Tuscany (About.com)
    •  Ultimate Travel Library (National Geographic)
    • WorldHum’s 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time
  • Classics:
    • Robert Teeter’s Great Books Lists
    • Eric McMillan’s The Greatest Literature of All Time
    • Martin Seymour-Smith’s The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written (1998)
    • The Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels
    • The Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction
    • National Review’s 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century (October 2005)
    • Newsweek’s Top 100 Books of All Time (June 2009)
    • The Guardian’s 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (January 2009)
    • The Guardian’s 100 Greatest Nonfiction Books (June 2011)
    • St. Charles (Illinois) Public Library’s The Classics
    • The Telegraph’s 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library (April 2008)
    • Time Magazine’s The 10 Greatest Books of All Time (January 2007)
    • Time Magazine’s 100 Best English-Language Novels Since 1923 (2005)
    • Time Magazine’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books Since 1923 (August 2011)
    • Top 100 Works in World Literature
  • Mysteries:
    • Murder, Mystery & Mayhem
  • Neglected Books:
    • The Neglected Books Page
  • Science Fiction Classics:
    • National Public Radio’s Top 100 Sci-Fi Novels (August 2011)

Books for Free, Compter Downloadable (see also Audiobooks for Free, Compter Downloadable)

• Bookstacks
• Bookyards
• Digital Books Index
• E-Books Directory
• ManyBooks.net
• The Online Books Page
• OverDrive
• Page By Page Books
• Planet eBook [classic literature only]
• Project Gutenberg
• World Public Library

Bookshelves

• Booklovers Never Sleep Alone
• Books at Home
• Bookshelf
• Bookshelf Porn
• How to Install Built-In Bookshelves in Your Home (AssociatedContent.com)
• 20 Unusually Brilliant Bookcase and Bookshelf Designs (WebUrbanist)
• Unique Bookshelves (Goodwill Librarian Facebook Album)

Bookstores, Local Brick and Mortar [Updated January 2020]

• A Cappella Books (Little 5 Points)
• Atlanta Vintage Books (Chamblee)
• Barnes & Noble – Buckhead
• Barnes & Noble – Camp Creek Parkway
• Barnes & Noble – Cumberland
• Barnes & Noble – Edgewood Retail
• Barnes & Noble – Perimeter Mall
• Book Nook (Toco Hill)
• Bookish (East Atlanta)
• Books by the Pound(Lawrenceville)
• Charis Books & More (Decatur)
• Eagle Eye Book Shop (Emory area)
• Half Price Books (Decatur)
• Half Price Books (Marietta)
• Little Shop of Stories (Decatur)
• Shrine of the Black Madonna(Southwest Atlanta)
• Tall Tales Book Shop (Toco Hill)

Bookstores, Online

• AbeBooks
• Alibris
• Amazon.com
• Biblio.com [Used Books Only]
• The Book Depository [UK-based, but with free shipping worldwide]
• Books-a-Million
• BookSense
• Half.com
• Powell’s Books (Portland, Oregon)
• Strand Bookstore (New York City)

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