Research Guides: Literature & Leisure Reading: Home

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Literature Map
A great tool for finding authors who are new to you. Start with an author you're interested in and go from there.
Goodreads
Goodreads is a social networking site that allows readers to rank and review books, meet readers with similar tastes, and much more. While a popular resource, it is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by VCU, and the same cautions apply to using it as for Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Whichbook
A tool for browsing titles, featuring slider widgets to help adjust your results based on various factors.

You may find further reading suggestions and inspiration while browsing through literary criticism.

Gale Literature Resource Center
Bibliographic and select full-text access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists. Includes Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and more.