Writer's Style Guides

Writing Across the Curriculum

Writer's Guidelines is a collection of guidelines for articles of all kinds.

Pulitzer Prize Winners

Google's Sites of Writer's Resources - a very good collection of sites for the writer.

The Slot contains highly opinionated suggestions about writing, punctuation, etc.

Paradigm Writing Assistant helps find things to write about.

Writer's Free Reference has links to all sorts of documents that are associated with writing.

Lifehack's 50 Tools which can help you in writing.

Word Etymology from Fun-With-Words, has some examples of word etymology but also includes some examples of spoonerisms, pangrams, oxymora, palindromes, etc.

Word Etymology has some great etymologies.

Etymologic - Word Etymology Game lets you guess at a multiple choice test of the etymology of a word.

Everyday Spelling is designed to assist teachers of spelling but the rest of us can use it also.

Word Detective specializes in origins of words or phrases.

Online Etymology Dictionary specializes in origins of words.

Idiom Site talks about the origins of words or phrases.

World Wide Words is dedicated to words including their history and origin.

Wordie is a great list of words that have been submitted by site visitors. Great site for 'word of the day' freaks.

Strange and Unusual Dictionaries includes the Dictionary of All Vowel Words and the One Letter Word Dictionary (about 700 entries). Also includes reviews of books about words.

Phrases "The Phrase Finder does for phrases what a thesaurus does for words. Give it a single word and it will give you a list of phrases and sayings that are related to the word in some way."

Rules for Capitalization

Rules for Punctuation

Rules for Punctuation

Online Resources for Writers

Online English Grammar

OWL is sponsored by Purdue' Online Writing Lab and lets you type in a question about grammar, spelling, or punctuation. There is a lot of reference material here, also, with a lot of links to other sites.

Doctor Grammar explains when to use what. Has a large collection of when to use affect vs. effect, bring vs take, etc.

Mining Company's Techwriting Sites includes links to topics related to technical writing.

The Grammar Lady is dedicated to the correct use of the English language.

The Internet Writing Journal focuses on publishing on the Internet. An affiliated site is Writers Write.

Writer's Site has an assortment of links to assist an aspiring writer.

News Letters About Writing is a list of listserv's that will send you periodic mailings about writing.

Common Errors in English

Confusing Words helps out telling the difference between such words as effect and affect.

Writers Beware is brought to us from the Science Fiction Writers of America. These are warnings about how not to get ripped off.

Guide to Grammar and Writing by Charles Darling.

Literary Market Place has resources for writers like publishers, agents, small presses, editorial services. Also has advice and articles related to publishing.

National Writers Union has links to a variety of resources for writers: conferences, seminars, job banks, dictionaries, etc.

Writers on the Net has tips, online courses, newsletter, etc.

Cliche

PopUp Grammar gives you a little quiz on grammar.

Serendipity sets you straight on many of the common errors we all make like when to use i.e. or e.g., when to use 'affect' vs 'effect', etc.

Contentious is an editorial site for Web writers.

Writing for the Web is informative material on writing styles that are conducive to the Web presentation. Brought to us by the Web Developers Virtual Library.

Theme Stream lets you publish your articles so that other readers can rate them.

Business Writing from the Writers Write group.

Bartleby's Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English

Common Errors in English Language - common errors in english - helps you write gooder with brief descriptions of hundreds of errors commonly made when speaking/writing the English.

Grammar Girl - has great, short grammar lessons aimed at improving your writing and speech. Includes podcasts.

Big Dog's Grammar has short lessons with a quiz.

Jargon Free Web is an effort to reduce the amount of jargon on the Web.

Dr Grammar

Word Oddities Browse through a collection of various word oddities like the three 7-letter words that can be played on a musical instrument.

Logolepsy - "...dragging obscure words into the light of day."

Oxymorons like 'jumbo shrimp' or 'liquid gas'.

WordCount shows the frequency of word use in the English language. Some one has too much time on their hands.

Library of Congress 2004 National Book Festival

Print Google - search for a book on any topic, read some or all of it online, and/or buy it.

Origin of English Phrases has a search engine that helps you find common sayings and phrases.

50 Tools for Better Writing- some very good tips (IMHO).

OEDILF is the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form. Enter a word into the Limericktionary, and OEDILF returns user-submitted limericks containing the word.

Findings - is a place where readers can share something that they found insightful. It is a potpourri of quotes.

Ezine Articles is a site that accepts articles from all writers.

Medium is a site that publishes articles from all kinds of writers.

Tip-Of-My-Tongue This site helps you find the word that is on the tip of your tongue. Surprisingly effective.

Wordle

Word Master is exactly like Wordle but you can play as many times as you want instead of the daily dose of Wordle.

Waffle is similar to Wordle (it is free, browser based, green and yellow indicators, share results) but challenges you to resolve 6 five letter words at the same time by swapping the given letters. You have to solve the puzzle within 15 swaps.

Merriam-Webster Game of the Day - a new word game each day.

ClueMaster crossword puzzles and logic games.

MacNamara's Band crossword puzzles

Michael Curl's Puzzles and wordplay

PuzzleDepot's Weekly Crossword

Wolinsky's Word Play has a bunch of links to stuff associated with words including Burma Shave Signs, Complex Statements for the Simple-Minded, the Crossword Solver, the Word Wizard, etc.

CrossWorld has links to other crossword puzzle sites.

Brain Candy is about having fun with words and language.

CNN's Crossword Puzzle of the Day has a new one every day if you can stand it.

Crossword Puzzle Games

Plumb Design Thesaurus has to be the coolest use of Java. It depicts relationships between words in a graphical way.

Puzzle Maker creates mazes and word puzzles.

Puzzability from the folks that brought us Games Magazine. Word puzzles through java.

Puzzle Connection has word puzzles and conundrums.

Thinks has all kinds of puzzles and thinking games. They also have software and other products related to the cerebral pursuits.

One Across This site helps you with crossword puzzles. You enter the clue phrase and as much of the word as you know. It helps you with the rest. The site also has other word games.

World Wide Words has a variety of material that is hard to describe except that it is all about words.

Scrabble Helper - when you're really stuck.

Save the Words is not really a word game. A bunch of words are displayed that you probably have never heard before. You click on one and the definition is displayed.

Overdrive is a free platform (once known as Libby) for Windows, Android, iOS, etc. that allows you to borrow books from your local library and read them on your device. You probably will need a library card (or the electronic equivalent) from your local library and then you go online and download the book (when it is available as the number of loan-outs is limited by licensing).

Library Extension If you have a library card to your local library, this Chrome and Firefox extension will tell you whether the book that you are examining on Amazon is available at your library.

100 Books to Read In a Lifetime from Amazon and GoodReads

Five Books is a collection of curated lists of the best books in every category. Great ideas for good reads.

Book Marks is to book reviews as Rotten Tomatoes is to movie reviews.

New York Times Best Seller List

Independents Best Seller List gets its data from the local book stores around the country.

LA Times' Best Seller List

Publisher's Weekly Best Seller List

Top Best Sellers 1900 - 1995

International Children's Digital Library has books online for ages 3 thru 13.

USA Today's Best Seller List is compiled from actual book sales.

The Hugos - awards in science fiction literature.

American Booksellers Association includes general news from the book world.

New York Books sells books. The site includes reviews.

Book Depository ($) sells books. Based in Australia

Bookstr has news and articles about books and authors including lists of recommendations.

WikiBooks reviews nonfiction books in the classic wiki style where the public can add a comment or entry which is first reviewed by moderators before it is included in the published wiki entry.

BookRadio includes interviews of authors via RealAudio.

What Should I Read Next - you enter a title or author and the site suggests other books and authors that you might like.

Book Depository ($) sells books. Based in Australia and the United Kingdom. Prices are a little higher than elsewhere but it might be easier to browse.

Barnes and Noble ($)

Amazon ($)

Macmillan Computer Publishing actually has a lot of material to browse. You can also buy books.

Reviews of Books on Writing from the Writers Write folks.

Discovery Online Book Store where you can buy books related to the material on the Discovery Channel.

Arts & Letters Daily - serves up a collection of articles for the reader. There is a lot of variety and the writing is pretty good to excellent.

Academy of American Poets

SFSite has a lot of stuff related to science fiction.

Analog is the offspring of Astounding Stories - scifi.

10 Mobile Apps for Book Lovers from the MakeUseOF folks.

The OnLine Books Page has all kinds of full length books online for you to read.

Bookzz is a large collection of free books to read online or as PDFs.

The Gutenberg Project, the mother of all etext pages, has thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of books on line for you to search and read.

Classic Reader has over 600 full classic books and over 800 short stories available online.

Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has thousands of books on line for you to search and read.

Periodyssey specializes in old printed material.

Female Detectives specializes in reviews of books involving female detectives.

eBookNet reviews ebooks. Also has reviews of ebook devices and ebook related news.

RecordedBooks.com sells recorded books.

Hear Now Audio Books sells recorded books.

Book Player List has reviews of book player devices.

10 Websites with Free Audio Books

FiveBooks is a site that asks experts to recommend five books. Interesting to see what they think are the best books in their field.

Bookish.com recommends books after you enter the titles of 4 books that you liked.

Sources of Free Ebook is an article from MakeUseOf that reviews a number of sources where you can get free ebooks.

BookSifter lists over 80,000 free ebooks in various categories including computers, food, history, etc.

AllReaders is a search engine that lets you search for books based on author, title, plot, character, etc.

Fantastic Fiction - tracks bibliographies of fiction authors. You can see the titles of the books that they wrote along with their recommendations for other authors.

Best SF Books is a list of the best science fiction books according to Adam Doppelt, a science fiction reader. Nice collection of award winners.

Critical Reading is about serious reading and writing.

Guardian Top 10s is a very British site that shares the top ten lists of a number of authors and pundits.

Short Stories is a British site dedicated to the art of the short story.

Audible.com sells all kinds of recorded book material.

Prarie Home Companion

Books on the Web is a searchable index of ebooks that are available on the Web for free.

BookCrossing This site wants you to leave books in public places for others to read. You can get BookCrossing stickers to put inside them that instructs the reader to leave the book for someone else when finished.

Library Thing - Flickr for books

Free Books is an article from the PCWorld folks about where you can find free books.

LibriVox - free audio books that have been recorded by public readers.

Bookslut is a blog about books.

BookRiot is a news and option site about books.

Google Books offers free books and magazines that have been made available to the public domain. You can search the material or download the whole issue or book.

PDF Genie is an ebook search site.

Data Sheet is an ebook search site

Scribd is YouTube for written material. The public uploads all kinds of written matieral including tech guides, manuals, books, etc. All is free and probably illegal.

Free Computer Books has tech books that you read online or download but they are all free.

Free Tech Books

43 Books You Won't Stop Talking About - a collection from the folks at Buzzfeed.

National Emergency Library This site is making millions of ebooks available especially for students who are restricted to home schooling. Great source of reference books.

Little Known Places to Download Free Ebooks (2020) This article reviews a handful of sites where you can download unusual and interesting reading for your ebook.

New York Times Book Reviews

LA Times Book Reviews

Complete Review

Kirkus Reviews

Salon is a publication that reviews movies and books. They also have a chat room.

Washington Post Book World has reviews but also has the first chapters of selected books.

BookWire includes reviews and announcements of new books.

BookBrowse

The Library Thing - reviews of books, reader forums. Also has lists of books similar to others that you liked.

Goodreads gives you suggestions for books that you might like based on your previous reading experiences. It is owned by Amazon.

Storygraph is similar to Goodreads in that it allows you to share your reading experiences with others. It has a more defined rating system than Goodreads, though.

Guide to Using Goodreads

Alternatives to Goodreads This 2020 LifeHacker article reviews a few good alternatives to Goodreads. That is, the sites allow you to see what others like to read.

Best Book Review Sites This 2023 MakeUseOf article reviews a near dozen sites that review, recommend, and rate books.

Readalikes is a list of authors. You can search for a favorite and the list will show other authors that are similar that you might like.

Your Next Read recommends current books to you based on your selections of books that you liked in the past. Links between books are based on ratings and recommendations from the public. Has not been updated since 2010?

Fantasy Book Reviews includes a lot of 'best of' categories.

Blog Kindle is a blog that has news, rumors, tips, discussions, etc. related to the Kindle devices. It has sections covering accessories, hacks, tutorials, faqs, etc.

Free Kindle Books This article reviews 7 sites that offer free books for Kindle devices. It also includes sites that have valuable tips on using these devices.

Just Kindle Books shows you where to find free and bargain Kindle books. Newsletter is available.

6 Desktop Ebook Readers is a review of ebook readers implemented on desktops (2019).

Sources of Free Kindle Books (2020) PCWorld article reviews a handful of sites that provide free books for your Kindle.

Puzux is a site that brings you interactive word games for ereaders.

Zublo specializes in Web games for the Kindle. You use the built-in browser.

Convert epub to Kindle

The Big List of Free Kindle Tools

Free Kindle eBooks daily postings on Reddit

Zenreads delivers the news of the day to your Kindle for free.

How to Load Free eBooks on the Kindle shows how to load free materials onto your Kindle.

Hundred Zeroes has a list of the most popular free Kindle books available on Amazon.

Free Kindle Books from Amazon - mostly classics.

eReaderIQ has free books for the Kindle.

Websites with Completely Free eBooks That Don't Suck - by the MakeUseOf folks (2019).

Six Best Sites to Get Free Ebooks

Four Best Sites to Get Free iPad Ebooks

Global Grey helps you access pdf, epub, and Kindle books that are free and don't suck.

12 Sites for Kindle Users

Best Places to Get Free Books is a rather large collection of sites where you can get free books and ebooks.

Gizmo's 50 Sites for Free ebooks has sites listed by category and includes technical book sources. It actually includes a list of over 900 sites.

Best Websites for Finding and Downloading Ebooks - collection of sites where you can find, purchase, rent, download, etc., ebooks.

How to Convert ePub to Mobi (Kindle) Format - a review of 5 software solutions (all free).

How to Jailbreak a Kindle is a Lifehacker article that can assist in jailbreaking any version of the Kindle.