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Thought Audio is a producer and provider of free audio books featuring classic titles across a variety of genres. Thought Audio audio books are professionally narrated works that you can listen to online or download to play offline. The library of audio books on Thought Audio contains some titles that are hard to find as audio files. For example you'll find titles like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Life of PT Barnum, and The Madman. You'll also find more commonly read titles like Alice in Wonderland, and Poe's The Raven.

Over 2000 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online.

Teens and their parents can find similar titles to "Mockingjay" in the 2011 nominations for YALSA's Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (PPYA) booklist, particularly the What If… themed list, which highlights titles featuring alternative history and worlds, steampunk, apocalyptic fiction and cyberpunk, among other settings.

The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list where every title is nominated and voted on by teens. The 2012 nominations have been posted on the YALSA website so that teens across the country can read them all summer; voting will be happen over August and September, and the winners will be announced during Teen Read Week in October.

Susan Mapleson, a Teacher Librarian at Christian College (Senior Campus) Geelong has developed an interesting blog for lovers of literature. The i.Read blog is cleverly titled and is continuing to develop. .

In 5 Minutes A Day brings you the world's best classic novels, delivered in daily five-minute installments to your e-mail. Our Classic Novels on Demand™ system allows readers to subscribe to a novel today and start reading it today. Visit our subscription page to see what titles are available. Did we forget to mention that the service is free?

Whichbook gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood. Instead of starting from the overwhelming choice of books available, whichbook starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of that elusive 'good read' we are all looking for but don't quite know how to define. The standard way of organising books for choice, on shelves in a library or a bookshop, or on the web, starts from the products available - the authors, titles, publishers or genres. Whichbook enables the choice of book to start from the individual reader and what they are looking for.

Enter title and author of a book you liked and the site generates a list from users' recommendations. Links to Amazon.

Gary Green's map of fiction in Surrey. A great example of how to use Google Maps. The tool also allows him to write about each title that he's put into the map.

For all things Harry Potter. Presented as a wiki, the LeakyPedia has excellent information on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, however the rest of the books and all of the films need additional information. This could be an opportunity for students who are fans of the books and/or the films to submit something to the site. The style of articles for the wiki has already been laid out, so students would be able to easily follow the templates on the site