Is it tough to know where to start when you are looking for your next book? Our database, NoveList, provides a number of great starting points!Here are just a few:
Award Winners
With Award Winning Books, you can browse lists of award winning books from the major literary awards to some of the smaller popular fiction awards. Interested in mysteries? Have you ever heard of the Dilys Award? The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association established this award in 1992 to recognize the title booksellers most enjoyed selling. The award is named in honor of Dilys Winn, the founder of New York's Murder Ink, the first mystery specialty bookstore in the U.S.
Author Read-a-Likes
Did you read all 20 books in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series? Yet you still hunger for more novels about the British Navy, Napoleonic Wars and the Age of Sail? Author Read-a-Likes can help! Look up your favorite author and NoveList will give you a concise article recommending other authors writing in a similar genre. By the way, C.S. Forester, Richard Woodman and Dewey Lambdin are recommended to readers that enjoy O'Brian!
Recommended Reads
Are you addicted to Romance Novels but are having trouble sorting through what seems like hundreds of new titles every month? So many books, so little time! NoveList provides lists of recommended reads in many genres - including 26 different types of Romance Novels.
All you need is your library card to discover that next read!
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