Boys Read: a web site for boy’s literacy
June 13, 2009Orange Prize for Fiction – 2009
June 4, 2009Marilynne Robinson has won the 2009 Orange Prize for her third novel, Home.
The Orange Prize is awarded to a woman writing fiction in the English language. Past winners include: Zadie Smith and Ann Patchett.
2009 Man Booker Prize
May 28, 2009Juvenile Series and Sequels
February 5, 2009Best Book Lists for 2008
January 15, 2009NPR’s Booksellers Picks for 2008
December 11, 2008New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2008!
December 8, 2008Publisher’s Weekly Best Books of the Year – 2008
November 8, 2008Annual list compiled by the editors of Publisher’s Weekly. Titles are organized in categories – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, religion, lifestyle and children’s. Each title has a brief annotation.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6610357.html?nid=3335
Resources for Mystery Readers!
November 8, 2008
Bibliomysteries http://www.bibliomysteries.com/
are mysteries whose characters, plots and/or settings are intimately bound up with books, writers, and or libraries. Browse alphabetically or explore new bibliomysteries, juvenile books, detectives in series, authors in murder mysteries, quotations (”We are librarians, and therefore the elect of God. To read is human, to catalogue divine.”), and murder weapons (and in case you were wondering, someone HAS been fictionally murdered by compact shelving.
Mystery File: The CrimeFiction Research Journal http://www.mysteryfile.com Lots of book reviews, author profiles and mystery trivia.
The Mystery Reader http://www.themysteryreader.com Mystery Book reviews with one to five star ratings and violence ratings. Covers police/detective, thrillers, cozy’s, romantic suspense, historical and suspense. Parts of the site are not current, but the book reviews are up to date.
Stop, You’re Killing Me! http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/index.html This site is a resource for the lovers of mystery, intrigue and suspense books. Stop! Lists hundreds of authors, with complete, chronological lists of their books in this sub-genre

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