Books, Reading and Literature

Explore endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics.

Biographies, criticism, primary source material, reviews and overviews plus access to full-text short stories, plays, speeches and poems. Search across content from Literature Criticism Online, Something About the Author and more.
 

Bring learning to life with hundreds of interactive nonfiction books that integrate multimedia into each page. Enjoy online, no downloads required. For grades K-12.

Literary criticism, author biographies, plot summaries and book reviews.

Archive of the weekly newspaper The Listener published 1929-1991 by the BBC covering news, arts and more

Search the world's libraries all at once! Over 2 billion items from libraries around the world can be found in WorldCat.