Resources: Fiction & Literature
Author Check
Sign up to receive emails when your favorite authors release a new book, discover new authors to follow, and read bios of authors.
Inkie (formerly Pressbooks)
Write your own book or edit your existing book. Type directly into Pressbooks or import your book and then edit and design digital and print copies. Pressbooks will help you organize your chapters, edit text, add bibliographies, introductions or prefaces, choose a design from over 50 design themes and more.
LitBase
LitBase is a world literature database with with a focus on the most studied authors, poetry, fiction, plays, and creative nonfiction worldwide.
Literary Reference Plus
Includes thousands of plot summaries, essays of literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, poems and short stories, author interviews, and more.
Literature Resource Center
Comprehensive resource for research on literature and authors. Biographical information, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers.
NoveList K-8 Plus
Detailed information about fiction books and authors for students in grades K-8.
NoveList Plus
Detailed information about fiction books and authors.
WorldCat Discovery
Access to WorldCat, a database of library holdings from around the world, and to article databases, Article First and ECO. Formally known as First Search.