COMPREHENSIVE SITES
Great Books Online: search dozens of reference books, or read fiction, poetry, or plays online
Read classic books, plays, stories, poems, essays, and speeches online
A free online library, offering thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast
Select a book to read online any time at your convenience from a site that contains hundreds of books from hundreds of authors; select from fictions/novels, short stories, poems, essays, and plays
Thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays
Find classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries
A comprehensive guide to African American Literature during the 20th Century, including over 75 novels, poems, autobiographies, and essays, along with summaries of the selected literature
SHORT STORIES
Classic short-stories online
Short stories: children’s, crime, fiction, horror, humour, nonfiction, romance, hyperfiction
POETRY
Find a poem for any mood or occasion
Read or listen to poems and find information about poets and poetry
An online journal and multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000), Edited by Cary Nelson
A user-friendly library of works by hundreds of authors covering thousands of years
FANTASY, SCI FI, AND HORROR
Dark Stories’ library of links to classic horror works online
Dark fiction short stories
Includes visionary fiction of all sorts, literature of people who were classified insane, holy scriptures of deviant or private or long-extinct religions, delirious creation myths, books of the dead and tractates by ferocious mystics
Library of public domain fantasy, science fiction, and horror works online
Some full-text short stories and poems
University of Michigan Fantasy and Science Fiction Website
Includes electronic library and symbolism dictionary
HISTORICAL FICTION
A Journal for Readers and Writers of Historical Fiction, includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, reviews, and more