Readers' Advisory |
Looking for more information on famous and not so famous literature?
Or do you simply want to read a good book? Check out these
links. |
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Bookletters: |
Our monthly newsletters full of great reading ideas |
New Fiction: |
Our monthly list of upcoming fiction titles |
New Non-Fiction: |
Our monthly list of upcoming non-fiction titles |
(Last month's lists: Fiction / Non-Fiction) |
Book Discussion Sets: |
Book Discussion Sets are sets of books for group discussion on a particular title or subject |
NoveList |
An electronic readers’ advisory resource which assists fiction
readers in finding new authors and titles |
LibraryThing |
Join what claims to be the world’s largest book club,
catalog your books from Amazon, the Library of Congress and 690 other world libraries, and find people with eerily similar tastes |
Goodreads |
See what your friends are reading, keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read, get great book recommendations from people you know, form a book club, answer book trivia, and collect your favorite quotes |
Shelfari |
The "premier social network for people who love books."
Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books - all for free |
LitFINDER |
Contains the databases: Poem Finder has 85,000
complete poems and 800,000 poem citations and excerpts; Story Finder provides
thousands of short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures,
and more and; Essay Finder is a unique database of
full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in
the 20th century |
Literature Resource Center |
Gives access to biographies,
bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age
and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists,
poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers |
What Do I Read Next? |
An electronic readers' advisory resource which assists users in
finding new fiction and non-fiction books to read |
Special Reading Lists |
An archive of some of our topical reading suggestions from past years |
Reader's Advisory is maintained by a
team of library staff members from
across the system. |
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