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Find Your Next Book

Don’t know what to read next? Try the resources below to find your next read or fill out our Reader’s Advisory Form and we will select three books for you based on your reading preferences.

Book Reviews

BookPage: This is a monthly book review publication distributed to 400,000 avid readers through subscribing bookstores and public libraries. It is a broad-based selection guide to the best new books published every month.
Goto the Bookpage Website

Booklist Reader: Booklist Reader is a monthly publication from the American Library Association that the Bruce Area Library subscribes to. It features readers’ advisory recommendations for readers of all ages. It has top-10 lists; must reads; interviews with (and articles by) top authors and illustrators; and adult, youth, and audio recommendations for all communities and all who love to read. We will be getting 25 print copies starting in the spring. But you do not have to wait for the print copy! Our print subscription comes with digital access to the current copy and to past copies.
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Novelist Plus: Search hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and nonfiction titles. Retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more. Enter your library card to access and find your new favorites.
Goto the Novelist Plus Website

Library-Reads: LibraryReads is a list of the top ten books published every month that librarians across the country love, along with reviews from the librarians.
Goto the Library Reads Websitee

Books by Author and Books in a Series

What’s Next: Find what books are in a series – great for finding the next book in a series.
Goto the What’s Next website.

Bookseries.org: This helpful website’s goal is to provide full and comprehensive listings of every single author there is and every series they have ever written both in publication order and chronological order.
Goto the Book Series Website

Fantastic Fiction: Fantastic Fiction has a database of over 60,000 books. You can search by author, by title , and by series name.
Goto the Fantastic Fiction Website.

Award Winning Books Available at the Library

(the list of award winning books is a work in progress)

General

Booker Prize: a literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
View the Booker Prize book list.

  • National Book Award
    • Fiction
    • Non-fiction
    • Poetry
  • Pulitzer Prize for
    • History
    • Fiction
    • Poetry
    • Drama
    • General Nonfiction
  • Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
  • Canadian Governor General’s Award

By Genre

Children’s Literature

  • Newberry
  • Caldecott Medal
  • Children’s Literature Legacy Award (formerly the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award)

Mystery

  • Edgar Allan Poe Awards
  • Agatha Award
  • Edgar Award

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

  • Hugo Award
  • Nebula Award
  • Aurora Awards
  • BSFA award
  • World Fantasy Award
  • Bram Stoker Award

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