Literature
April is National Poetry Month (Poetry Pathfinder)
BookTV: C-SPAN's Non-fiction literature program
Classical Greek and Roman Mythology (Temple University)
Internet Public Library: Online literary criticism collection
LitCharts: downloadable literary notes and study guides
LitHub Literary Events Calendar
Literature Collection (University of Wisconsin)
Mark Twain Papers and Project (University of California at Berkeley)
New York Society Library: World Literature in Translation
No Fear Shakespeare (SparkNotes)
Poets' Corner: 7,000 works by over 700 poets
Resources for Learning English Grammar
Shakespeare Resource Center and the Folger Shakespeare Library: online resources
SparkNotes: literature study guides
Turning the Pages: Virtual Books (British Library)
What's Next!: Books in Series (Kent District Library, MI)
Wired for Books: poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures and interviews for children and adults
Genre Fiction
Mystery Readers International: take a look at their Holiday Mystery list
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research database: over 100,000 citations to articles, books, etc. about sci fi, fantasy & horror
Stop! You're Killing Me!: a website to die for ...If you love mysteries
Free eTexts
Online Text Collections in Western European Literature (most before 1910)
JSTOR Digital Library (HWPL database: https://www.hwpl.org/databases/ )
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature (Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century)
Nassau Digital Doorway: Overdrive (requires HWPL library card authentication)
National Academies Press: over 10,000 titles on science, medicine and engineering in PDF format (downloadable for free by the chapter or the entire book)
Free Audiobooks