Amazon.com
Very cool online bookstore.

BarnesandNoble.com
Barnes and Noble's national Web site, "The world's largest bookseller online," offers the convenience of a bookstore on your desktop. Search for your favorite books and add titles to a virtual shopping cart to order online. If you're not an online shopper, the site is most useful for its reading recommendations, New York Times bestseller lists, and its searchable database of over 1 million titles. If you become a member, you can post your own book reviews and get personalized reading lists.

Booker Prize
Bradley Shoop's helpful alphabetical and chronological listing for Britain's most prestigious literary prize. Some books and authors contain reviews.

Books in Chains
Scott Rettberg, who's studying for his PhD in English, chooses his links like a true connoisseur. The title, apparently, comes from a medieval custom of securing books against thieves. Here you'll find fan pages for your favorite authors - be they Michel Foucault, Freud, or Zora Neale Hurston. The first place to look for books and fellow bibliophiles on the Web. Rettberg's Web tour is the kind of hand-holding we all need from time to time, and should not be missed.

BookWire
"The mother lode of cyberspace-based book info," according to Entertainment Weekly. One of the best places to find publishing industry news, book reviews, bestseller lists, and author events. Hungry Mind Review, a literary book review, and Computer Book Review are also here. Their index page has 3,500 categorized links to book sites around the world. Look for Mort Gerberg's cartoon of the day for a healthy dose of industry humor. Reviews, Publishers Weekly bestseller list, and every author tour event on BookWire is searchable below.

City of Bits
The first full-text interactive book on the Web. Like reading Paul Auster with hyperlinks.

Electronic Poetry Center
Read from the University of Buffalo's extensive archive of poetry texts and sound files. Submit a few couplets to a collaborative poem. Or use the email directory to correspond with your favorite poet - many bards here are wired.

The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
Full-text resources in English, French, German, Japanese, and Latin.

The English Server
Humanities texts on topics ranging from poetry to rhetoric to Marxism, all courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University.

Gabriel
This is a gateway to Europe's national libraries.

Hyperizons
Duke graduate student and fiction writer Michael Shumate's hypertext fiction directory for the Web contains links to original stories, as well as famous novels converted for the Web.

Inkspot
A resource for writers, this site boasts a threaded discussion area for writer networking, practical tips on how to sell your stuff, and a search engine for finding the right market.

Internet Bookshop
Claims to be the "largest online bookshop in the world," though Amazon.com has a larger number of titles. Chances are, between them you'll find what you're looking for. Internet Bookshop ships books from Britain, Amazon ships from the United States.

Library of Congress
Search the Library of Congress using their Web gateway below - or through a telnet interface, which lets you search for federal legislation as well. Go to the LOC site for more narrow searches and a Vietnam War-era POW/MIA database.

Library of Congress Links to Libraries
An index to Z39.50 search forms - a standard for cross-system searching.

Libweb
The Berkeley Digital Library's index of library servers on the Web. Very extensive.

The Nobel Prize for Literature
Oh, those Swedes! There's no elegant chronological listing in English for the prizewinners, but the search engine will bring up background information and sometimes pictures of the laureate you're looking for.

The Online Book Initiative
Just a ton o' books to download.

Project Bartleby - Columbia University
Includes a searchable version of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States, and more. This site aims to become the public library of the Internet.

Publishers Weekly
PW's online home tells you who's getting the big money for a tell-all book in their booknews section. Alas, most early reviews of books before their publication are only available from this trade magazine's print version.

The Pulitzer Prize
The annual prize for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama, and music. For now, the site only lists winners for the past two years.

Project Gutenberg
Michael Hart started Project Gutenberg 26 years ago when he typed the Declaration of Independence into a University of Illinois mainframe. With the help of volunteers and supporters, the project has put a thousand "plain vanilla electronic texts" online since then. Check out "Hart of the Gutenberg Galaxy" in Wired 4.05.

Hypertext Guide to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon's is the only single-author Web site mentioned in Wired Source, but Tim Ware's version of a textual companion to his books is top-notch. Look also at companions to V. and Vineland.

Personalized Shakespearean Insult Service
Thou art a qualling doghearted idle-headed flap-dragon.

Shakespeare
The complete works of William Shakespeare.

The UC Berkeley Libraries
Includes access to the Melvyl, Gladis, and Socrates databases. Melvyl's telnet interface for the UC Berkeley schools includes access to many other state and national library catalogs. You can get the Telnet application here.

Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource
Named after Jimmy Stewart's daughter Zuzu in It's a Wonderful Life, this list is geared toward helping writers and poets find sites on the Web. Zuzu also publishes a high-quality online lit mag.