St. Mary`s County Library

Adult Reading Suggestions

  • Cosmos
  • Novelist
  • Booklist Magazine
  • Bookpage
  • Washington Post Book World - Free registration with email address and a password is required.
  • What's Next - This site was developed by the Kent District Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan to locate adult fiction titles in series. It can be searched by author, title, or series name.
  • Overbooked: a Resource for Read - This site is for ravenous & omnivorous readers. Overbooked provides information about fiction and readable nonfiction.
  • Based on the Book - ‘Based on the Book’  is a compilation of over 1,250 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. Utilizing the Internet Movie Database as the authority, all movies in this collection have been released as feature-length films in the United States, in English, since 1980. Created by Mid-Continent Public Library
  • Reader’s Advice 
  • Pratt has a great Subject Guide for Books, Literature & Writing on their Website (www.prattlibrary.org) located under the Find Answers Tab.  Under Fiction, they have General Fiction and the five genres.  The five genres have been divided into subgenres which are described in detail and examples of authors for each subgenre are given.

General Fiction
Mystery

Science Fiction

Historical Fiction
Horror
Romance

 

 

 

 

 
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