The Library subscribes to four electronic databases on books and literature related information. They require a Fort Vancouver Regional Library card to log in.

Additional reader's advisory web links can be found on our Good Reads Links page.

General Sites

Book Lovers

Contains web links for the discriminating bibliophile, including rare books, literary journals and great writers and poets.

Fantastic Fiction

Bibliographies on over 10,000 authors and information on over 200,00 books.

High School Literature Homework Center

Directory of resources compiled by the Multnomah County Library Homework Center in Portland, OR. Excellent resource for researching both specific work and authors as well as literature by period or century.

Librarians' Index to the Internet: Literature & Books

This is an annotated subject directory of more than 6,600 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians. This is a megasite or portal that will lead you to many useful links such as teen sequels & series and banned books.

Literary Resources on the Web

Maintained by a professor from Rutgers University English department, this will provide hard-to-find links including "Ovid" in Latin. The drawback is it is very difficult to search since its search engine is ineffective.

Literary Criticism

Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection

Considered the single most valuable online resource for literary criticism, this web site links to over 2,000 critical and biographical web sites of authors and can be searched by author, titles, nationality and literary period.

Literary Resources on the Net

Searchable by author and by categories: Classical & Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, 18th Century, Romantic, Victorian, 20th Century, American, Theatre & Drama, Theory, Women's Literature & Feminism, Ethnicities & Nationalities, Other Literatures, Bibliography & History of the Book, and Hypertext.

Novel Guide

Analyzes the classic novels with summary of the work, character profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analysis, the top 10 quotes from the novel and biography of author.

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide

A well-organized website listing American authors alphabetically and by era. Created by Paul Reubens, a professor of English at California State University.

Mythology

About Mythology

"The job of mythology is to provide explanations that make sense within one's culture. Frequently mythology explains where a people came from. Was it a cosmic egg? Chaos?" In this directory of mythology, you'll find the names of the deities, their attributes, some of the principal legends, creation and flood stories.

Aesop's Fables Online Collection

This online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed.

Newspapers

Newslink

The best newspaper index online. Locate major newspapers by state and by city. Also contains major international newspapers.

Online Newspapers Around the World

Internet Public Library's link to newspapers from around the world.

Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The complete text of all Shakespeare's works, as well as a history of the his plays.

Shakespeare's Works

Contains all of Shakespeare's plays. Also contains a fun word scramble game called "Poetry Machine". Try it for fun!