Whether you are writing an essay on a book or author, trying to review before a test or just want to know more about the books and authors you enjoy reading, the Literature Resource links provide you with great options. The database Literature Resource Center includes the full text of many of the traditional and popular reference books on literature and authors. For more fiction and non-fiction book resources, don’t forget our library’s book blog Papercuts, which features literary news, book reviews, reading recommendations, genre favorites, and more! Check our catalog for additional books and videos. We have resources on our shelves and our staff is ready to help you find the information you need.

American Rhetoric
Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two

American Writers
An American history and literature resource that profiles the lives and works of 45 of America's best-known writers across 200 years of history. 

Book Index With Reviews Access using your TSCPL library card
Book Index with Reviews (BIR) helps you find information on the books you want and need to read. 

Books in Print In-Library Use Only
The industry's largest Web-based bibliographic resource. 

ClassicNotes.com by Grade Saver
This is basically Cliff's Notes on line. It is a helpful tool for students studying the classics. 

Fiction Connection Access using your TSCPL library card
Find book suggestions based on books you have already read, authors you like, or topics of interest. Easily create a personalized list of recommended titles based on characteristics you enjoy. Fiction and biography titles are included and suggestions can be printed or e-mailed for later review. 

Granger's World of Poetry In-Library Use Only
Look up biographies, find commentaries on poems and poets by well-respected scholars, and locate thousands of poems. 

Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. 

Novelist Access using your TSCPL library card
Locate authors and titles of interest. In addition, three powerful search techniques allow readers to look for books by entering descriptive terms that appear in subject headings, reviews, and other fields in the title records. 

Novelist K-8 Access using your TSCPL library card
Contains enhanced subject access for over 46,000 fiction titles aimed at the K-8 population. Full-text reviews from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist are available for many titles. The product also provides booktalks for selected young adult and children’s titles.  

Online Literary Criticism
The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4021 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. 

Spark Notes
Online study guides for many high school and college subjects, including literature guides for over 260 classic works written by Harvard University students and graduates.