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.
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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.
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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.
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Books by Author or Series
What’s Next: Find what books are in a series – great for finding the next book in a series.
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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.
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Fantastic Fiction: Fantastic Fiction has a database of over 60,000 books. You can search by author, by title , and by series name.
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Award Winning Books Available at the Library
(the list of award winning books is a work in progress)
All Books
Booker Prize: The Booker Prize is 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 listVisit the Booker Prize website
National Book Award: The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual literary awards in the United States. They are presented for books published in the United States roughly during the award year. Awards are given in three categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Poetry.
Visit the National Book Award websitePulitzer Prize: The Pulitzer Prizes are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in “journalism, arts and letters”. They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher. In the area of Books, Drama, and Music there are seven categories: fiction, drama, history, biography, memoir or autobiography, poetry, and general nonfiction.
Visit the Pulitzer Prize websiteBy Genre
Children’s Literature
Newberry
Caldecott Medal
Children’s Literature Legacy Award (formerly the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award)
Mystery
Agatha Award: The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the traditional mystery subgenre: “books typified by the works of Agatha Christie . . . loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore or gratuitous violence, and are not classified as ‘hard-boiled.”
View the Agatha Award book list Visit the Agatha Award websiteEdgar Award: The Edgar Awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year. It is named for American writer Edgar Allan Poe, whose short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) is considered to be one of the first detective stories.
View the Edgar Award book list. Visit the Edgar Awards websiteScience Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Hugo Award: The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members. Awards are given in eighteen categories. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories.
Visit the Hugo Award websiteNebula Award: The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. They are one of the best known and most prestigious science fiction and fantasy awards. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. Awards are given in nine categories.
Visit the Nebula Awards websiteAurora Awards: The Aurora Awards are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year. The event is organized by Canvention and the awards are given out by the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association and SFSF Boreal Inc. Awards are given in ten categories.
Visit the Aurora Awards websiteBritish Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award: The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) to honour works in the genre of science fiction. Awards are given in ten categories.
Visit the BFSA Award webpagesWorld Fantasy Award: The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention. World Fantasy Awards are given in five written categories, one category for artists, and four special categories for individuals to honor their general work in the field of fantasy.
Visit the World Fantasy Award websiteBram Stoker Award: The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for “superior achievement” in dark fantasy and horror writing. They are named after Irish horror writer Bram Stoker, author of the novel Dracula, among others. Awards are given in fourteen categories.
Visit the Bram Stoker Award website