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Book Selection Tools
Our online Library catalog is set up to be flexible for searching - using keywords or phrases, or author names or subjects or series names.
It now includes many reader-provided reviews accessible from the catalog home page, and on pages of individual titles. Please feel free to add your own reviews!
We also offer access to additional tools below to find books to match your interests.
Book suggestions, delivered to your e-mail!
- E-newsletter Book Lists - Choose from a variety of different book lists, e-mailed to you monthly.
- Daily e-mailed excerpts of beginning chapters of new books in DearReader's Online Book Clubs.
Other Book Lists Online:
- Accelerated Reader - Read the Books.com - A service for AR lists for local area elementary and middle schools. Individual book titles link directly to our catalog so that you may check availability or place holds.
- Find a large variety of book lists for all ages in our Book Lists pages.
Novelist Book Selection Tools Online:
Access these premium online book selection tools and E-Sources free from library computers, or at home with a library card.
- NoveList - Focuses on fiction, in two editions, one for adult reading, and another for students: Novelist K-8 grades.
NoveList offers browsable lists such as notable books and award list books by genre, articles on popular writers and literary trends, other authors you might like, and expanded genre lists for various reading levels.
You can access data from NoveList directly from many fiction book records in the library catalog. Simply use the Full Display tab and look at the right-hand sidebar for the NoveList link.
Alternate access to the above Novelist resources is available via the library catalog: E-Sources by Subject under Books and Reading.
Web Linked Resources
Other Internet book-related sites, including Publisher's Weekly website and What's Next? (series tool) are available via Books & Literature section of our Research Corner's Subject links.
Print Resources at Libraries
Many local library branches have print resources on hand, to help you find good books, such as "Genreflecting," "Now Read This" or "What Do I Read Next" which suggest titles based on genre, story setting, character type and similar authors.
Next time you visit a library, ask your staff to introduce these treasures to you. Our staff is happy to discuss good books with you!
Happy reading!
Request for Purchase
Pierce County Library System welcomes suggestions of specific new books and other materials we might purchase for our libraries. To suggest a particular item, please submit your request: send an email to ask a librarian.