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Books and Criticism

The Library subscribes to scholarly research databases not available on the Internet.

eResearch
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Magazines

	Biography In Context – Biographies about people from around the world and throughout history. [mobile App]
	BookFlix - Storybooks paired with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic.
	eBooks & eAudiobooks - Download OverDrive eBooks from Serra Digital Download Library to your computer or mobile devices. eBooks are added each month! [mobile App]
	General Reference Center Gold – Newspapers, magazines, and reference books. [mobile App]
	Gale Virtual Reference Library A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. [mobile App]
	Literature Criticism Online – Critical essays on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers. [mobile App]
	NoveList Plus and NoveList K-8 – Book recommendations as well as reviews, book group discussion topics, award winners, and more.
	ProQuest – Los Angeles Times (1985-current) The New York Times (June 1980-present) New York Times Magazine (1986-present) The Wall Street Journal (1984-present)

Access via the links at the bottom of the Library catalog search screen:

Recommended reading and bestsellers

The following are external sites that are not maintained by the Carlsbad City Library.

Literary criticism – resources from the Internet Public Library
Fantastic Fiction – find all titles by author or series; includes summaries
What's Next? – lists titles in series order
Project Gutenberg – download the full text of books and essays
Alex Catalogue – public domain documents and essays; American and English literature and Western philosophy
Library of Congress Read – online texts, reading lists, author webcasts and more
The Millions – articles about books, arts and culture

Search in the Library catalog for terms such as:

Masterplots
Cliffs Notes
Harold Bloom – Bloom's guides to literature
Shakespeare criticism – interpretation, discussion of themes and characters
drama criticism – literary criticism of plays

Plays, poems and essays are often difficult to find using the Library catalog because they appear in multi-author compilations. For help finding these works, contact a librarian.

Analog Science Fiction & Fact

Bookmarks

English Journal

New York Review of Books

New York Times Book Review

Poetry

Writer

Writer's Digest