Literary resources
Book lists
- Listverse: Top 15 Banned Literary Classics
- Great Books: Wikipedia article that includes a list of books composing the canon of Western written classics as selected by scholars and educators since the 1920s. The three criteria for inclusion were outlined thus by Mortimer Adler: "[1] The book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times; [2] the book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit;...[3] the book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries.
Ways to analyze a work of fiction
- LitLovers: Generic Questions for Fiction
"Use our general fiction questions to get your book club discussions off to a good start. They're basic but smart."
- LitLovers: Read-Think-Talk
More questions to help readers analyze literature. - NY Times Online: The Learning Network: "Beyond the Book Report: Ways to Respond to Literature Using New York Times Models": Offers different ways of analyzing and responding to novels.
Websites for readers and book club members
- BookReporter.com: Features book reviews, author interviews, reading group guides, a daily quotation, and more.
- GoodReads.com: A website that includes book synopses, reviews, and author bios. Viewers who choose to create an account can keep track of the books they read, review and rate them, and comment on others' book reviews.
Last updated on October 10, 2022.