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Book Selection Tools
Tools offered by the Library to find books to match your interests.
Lists of book suggestions, updated monthly:
- Pearl's Picks - suggestions from Nancy Pearl, author of Book Lust.
- DearReader.com Book Lists - choose from a variety of different book lists, e-mailed monthly to you. (DearReader also offers daily e-mailed excerpts of beginning chapters of new books in their Online Book Clubs.)
Other Book Lists Online:
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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, to check availability or place holds.
(See also alternative access to school's Accelerated Reader Lists online.)
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A large variety of book lists for all ages are available in our Book Lists pages.
Searching Tools Online:
The following are premium online book selection tools via our E-Sources on-line collection.
E-Sources are free to you from branches and home, but require a valid library card for home access.
- Novelist - Novelist focuses on fiction. It comes in two editions, one for adult reading, and another for students: Novelist K-8 grades.
Novelist offers browseable lists such as notable books and award list books by genre, articles on popular writers and literary trends, "Read-Alike" author suggestions, and expanded genre lists for various reading levels.
Novelist also has a searchable database which allows you to indicate specific books, authors or topics you have enjoyed in the past.
FYI - Data from Novelist can also be accessed directly from many fiction book records the library catalog. Use the Full Display tab then look at the right-hand sidebar for the Novelist link.
- What Do I Read Next? Includes fiction and non-fiction titles for adult, young adult and children.
What Do I Read Next? offers searching based on author, series, genre and keyword, plus a wide variety of topic and story setting parameters to look for likely candidate books.
WDIRN? also offers a large number of recommended title lists, award-winners and best-sellers, archived from 1990s forward.
(Alternate access to the above resources is available via the library catalog: E-Sources by Subject under Books, Poems & Literature -> Book Selection - Reader's Services.)
Web Linked Resources
Other Internet book-related sites, including Publisher's Weekly web site and What's Next? (a series resource from KDL), are available via Books & Literature section of our Research Corner's Subject links.
Print Resources at Branches
Your local library has many books for reader's advisory 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 branch, ask your staff to introduce these treasures to you. Our staff is happy to discuss good books with you!
Happy Reading!