Research Guides: Literature & Leisure Reading: Home

Humanities Research Librarian

Contact:

jglover2@vcu.edu
(804) 828-6555
Cabell Library, Room 121F

Want to meet to talk about your research, teaching, or projects? Please get in touch.

Subjects: Anthropology, Diversity, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, History, Language and Literature, Philosophy and Religious Studies

Suggest materials to add to VCU Libraries literature and leisure reading collections.

Contact Kevin Farley, Humanities Collections Librarian
Contact Kevin Farley directly at kdfarley@vcu.edu or (804) 828-8772 to discuss VCU Libraries collections.
Purchase Suggestion Form
Suggest something to VCU Libraries to add to the collections by filling out a form, which will be reviewed by a librarian for possible addition to VCU Libraries.

Here are some places to start your exploration...

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.