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Book Lists and Websites

In addition to awardwinners and bestsellers, we’ve put together booklists and links to websites for fans of all types of fiction.

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Agatha Award - "honor the traditional mystery - books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. The genre is generally characterized by mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence; usually featuring an amateur detective, they have a confined setting and characters who know one another."

American Library Association Notable Books for Adults - "selected for their significant contribution to the expansion of knowledge or for the pleasure they can provide to adult readers"

Bram Stoker Awards - "for superior achievement" in horror

Edgar Awards - "named after Mystery Writers of America's patron saint, Edgar Allan Poe, and are awarded to authors of

Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards - includes the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards

Man Booker Prize - "premier British award for fiction written in English by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the British Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa"

Nobel Prize in Literature - "has distinguished the works of authors from different languages and cultural backgrounds. It has been awarded to unknown masters as well as authors acclaimed worldwide."

Pulitzer Prize in Fiction - "for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life"

RITA Award - "the highest award of excellence in the genre of romance fiction"

The Lifetime Reading Plan - Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major's list of books to read over a lifetime

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Reading Reference Books

Be sure to stop by the Adult Reference Desk and look at our reader’s advisory books. These are reference books covering a variety of fiction genres, including:

The What Do I Read Next series

Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction

Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction

Christian Fiction: A Guide to the Genre

Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre

Detecting Men and Detecting Women

Hooked on Horror: A Guide to Reading Interests in Horror Fiction

Blood, Bedlam, Bullets, and Badguys: A Reader’s Guide to Adventure/Suspense Fiction

Strictly Science Fiction: A Guide to Reading Interests

Book Club Resources

You’re invited to attend the Adult Book Discussion at 10 a.m. on the second Saturday of the month in the Wilton Room.

Books are available at the Circulation Desk the month before the discussion.

Looking for a book for your own book club? Try our list of Best Book Group Books, suggested by the members of Fiction-L and other area libraries. We also have a Book Club Collection for book groups to check out.

If you're just starting to lead a book discussion, check out Book Discussion: A Leader's Guide. If you're looking for book discussion questions, try Reading Group Guides, which has discussion questions for many books as well as a set of generic discussion questions, and Reading Group Center, which includes discussion questions for Random House books and links to Random House author interviews and essays.