Booklover’s Toolbox: Topics H-L

 

Historical Fiction

• Historical Fiction Network
• Reading the Past

Home Libraries (see also Bookshelves)

• Beautiful-Libraries.com’s Home Libraries category (photographs)
• Creative Ways to Create an In-Home Library (Better Homes and Gardens)
• Library Essentials
• 100 Tips & Tools to Create the Ultimate Home Library (Online Degree)
• Your Shelves!

Horror Fiction

• Fantastic Fiction
• Horror Blog (Regina Public Library)
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Landmarks & Pilgrimage Sites (Local and Otherwise)

• The Dusty Shelf’s “Literary Landmarks of New York City” Series: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
• Salon.com’s Literary Guide to the World
• Literary Tourist’s List
• Literary Traveler’s List
• “New Orleans French Quarter: A Novel Place, Still” (Los Angeles Times)
• Poets’ Graves
• The Wren’s Nest (Joel Chandler Harris Home)

Libraries, Local

Academic Libraries:

• Agnes Scott College
• Atlanta University Center
• Emory University
• Georgia Institute of Technology Library
• Georgia State University
• Oglethorpe University

Public Libraries:

• Atlanta-Fulton Public Library
• DeKalb County Public Library
• WorldCat

Special Libraries:

• Atlanta History Center’s Kenan Research Center
• Jimmy Carter Presidential Library

Library Exhibits, Online

• American Antiquarian Society Library
• British Library
• Brown University’s John Carter Brown Library
• Cambridge University Library
• European Libraries’ Exhibitions
• Library of Congress

Library Locators

• Internet Public Library’s List

Literary Calendars, Factoids, and Oddities

• The American Literary Blog
• Curiosities of Literature (by Isaac Disraeli, 1766-1848)
• Odd Books
• Today in Literature
• The Writer’s Almanac

Literary Festivals

• Literary Tourist’s List

Literary Festivals, Local

• Atlanta Queer Literary Festival (October)
• Dahlonega Literary Festival (November)
• Decatur Book Festival (September)
• Decatur Literary Arts Festival (May)
• Georgia Fine and Collectible Book Fair (September)
• Georgia Literary Festival (Georgia Center for the Book, October)
• Jewish Book Festival (Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, November)
• National Black Arts Festival (July)
• Savannah Book Festival (February)
• Suwanee Festival of Books (August)

Literary Pilgrimages – see Landmarks and Literary Pilgrimages

Literary-Themed Gifts – see Gifts, Literary-Themed

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