Readers' Corner
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Looking for a good book to read? Want to find books similar to ones you already read? Want to find the next in the series?
Sites for Mystery Readers
The mystery genre is alive and well on the Web. These five sites are some of the most useful sites for readers.
Bouchercon Largest annual crime and mystery convention and home of the Anthony Awards.
Malice Domestic Contains the complete list of the Agatha Award winners and nominees back to 1998.
Mystery Writers of America The site of the official mystery writers' association includes information about its authors and their books as well as its regional organizations. Awards the prestigious Edgar Awards and maintains a complete archive of winners and nominees.
Sisters in Crime An organization dedicated to women writers and female characters in mysteries.
Stop, You're Killing Me! The premier site for mystery lovers is a one-stop site for all things crime. It covers mystery, crime, suspense, and thrillers, making it one of the most comprehensive crime Web sites.
Free Books Online
E-books are books you can download from the Internet to a portable device or your computer to read. Most of the free books are in the public domain, which means the copyright has expired. In a few cases, the author has given away the rights to the book. Also listed below are audiobooks available from the Internet.
E-Books
Online Books Page
This site lists more than 30,000 free books and links to freely accessible archives of serials, including academic journals and historic magazines.
Bartleby.com
Bartleby contains many of the classics but also includes fairly recent reference books such as encyclopedias, thesauri, almanacs, and books of quotations. It also has a large poetry selection.
Page By Page Books
This site offers you the ability to read books in short chunks. Titles include
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
My Man Jeeves, the Inaugural Addresses of many presidents, and more than a dozen Oz books.
Ebooklobby
A selection of books on computers and the Internet including an extensive collection of biographies and memoirs. Other topics including cooking, law, home and garden, sports, and children's books.
Audiobooks
Downloadable Audiobooks
Check out our new site providing downloadable audiobooks!
LibriVox
Do you have an Ipod? The free, public-domain audiobooks at LibriVox can be downloaded to Ipods as well as mp3 players. You can even download individual chapters.
Audiobooksforfree.com
Among the choices at this site are card game instructions and works by Kipling.
Both E-Books and Audiobooks
Project Gutenberg
E-books, audiobooks, sheet music, and recorded music in a variety of formats. The books come in many languages.