Official site of the landmark San Francisco bookseller and publisher, founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin. In addition to a brief history and a complete catalog of City Lights titles in print, you can find Ferlinghetti's Poetry as News columns from the San Francisco Chronicle and information on the San Francisco streets renamed to honor famous authors and artists who lived and worked in the city. - Read more

Fast and efficient, BookFinder is the database to start with for used, fine, rare, and out-of-print books. It searches several dozen major bookdealers, including Alibris, Amazon, Antiqbook, Barnes & Noble, Biblion, Powell's Books, and many others at once. - Read more

This site compares prices at over twenty independent and chain online bookstores. Your search will show whether a book is in stock or back-ordered, how soon it will be shipped, and the approximate shipping cost. The site searches for all kinds of books, including new and used books, textbooks, audio books, and out-of-print books - Read more

Librarians often use this large online store as a free version of Books in Print, as a reader's advisory service, and as a source for reviews of books and media from major review sources as well as readers. - Read more

A commercial database of over 40 million used, new, out of print, and hard-to-find books - Read more

This site searches over forty online bookstores, listing prices and shipping terms. Links to all the bookstores are given, prices can be shown in a variety of currencies, there is a separate used book search, and there is almost no advertising. - Read more

This site includes annual fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists through 1998, provided by "Publisher's Weekly - Read more