Book & eBook Links

Book Links ----

Reading Ideas and Links ---

  • Book Trailers for Young Adults (Adults, too!!) --

Bing Book Trailers --- type title of book into search screen

Digital Booktalk --- approximately 130 titles listed with more to come



  • YALSA Book Awards and Book Lists -- Great source for books for young adults/teens provided by YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association). Includes Alex Awards, Edwards Awards, Morris Awards, etc. alsoAmazing Audiobooks, Best Fiction, Fabulous Films. Great Graphic Novels and much more…


  • GoodReads -- a great site to help you keep track of what you've read and want to read along with reviews and ratings! A Social Book Site!!


  • Teen Ink -- a national teen magazine, book series, and website devoted entirely to teenage writing and art. Offers some of the most thoughtful and creative work generated by teens and has the largest distribution of any publication of its kind.


  • Teen Reads -- Provides information and features about teen's favorite authors, books, series, and characters and about the greatest new titles.

eBook Links (free) ----

Smashwords -- Over 30,000 titles -- mostly self-published. Easy to limit search to only free titles.

Project Gutenburg --Over 33,000 books available. Best for older and out-of-print titles.

Many Books -- Mostly fiction with overlap titles with Project Gutenberg.

Forgotten Books -- Over 10,000 titles with overlaps in titles with Project Gutenberg and Many Books.

Internet Archive -- Over 2.7 million mostly non-fiction texts contributed by academic libraries. Also features movies, audiobooks, music and podcasts.