Tools to Find Great Books
Tools from Wake County Public Libraries
Tools from Other Sources
Tools from Wake County Public Libraries
Customized Reading Lists
Wake County Public Libraries is happy to provide our community of readers with a customized, exciting service to help you find great books to read. Fill out our online reader profile, and Wake County Public Library staff will create a list of books and authors you might enjoy! There is a print version of this survey, if you prefer; please ask at your library.
Library Staff
Wake County Public Library Staff read widely and can offer you reading suggestions. Please ask a staff member at your library for some great reading recommendations.
Reading and Book Lists Prepared by Wake County Staff
We offer hundreds of reading lists for adults, teens and children. These lists are available on the Web from The Reader's Corner Web page. Books featured on these lists are linked to the library catalog. Most adult reading lists and some teens and kids lists are also available in paper format – please ask at your library.
Tools from Other Sources
LibraryThing for Libraries – a new feature in the library catalog!
Get book recommendations for books in the Wake County Public Library System while you search the library catalog. All of the recommendations and tags come from LibraryThing.com, a book cataloging website. More than 260,000 LibraryThing members (i.e., readers like you!) have added more than 23 million tags, 245,000 reviews and 2.8 million ratings to more than 18 million books. Tags are keywords and labels used by regular people to categorize books. Click on a tag or use the search box to find one. The items are not sorted alphabetically, but by their relevance to the tags.
NoveList
NoveList is a fiction database that provides access to reviews, summaries and much more for more than 135,000 fiction titles. NoveList allows readers to select a favorite author or title to locate other authors and titles of interest. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. In the example below, you can click on the “Find Similar Books” button to find books similar to The Kite Runner.
Please note: to access Novelist outside of a library branch, you'll need your library barcode number and PIN (personal identification number).
What's Next? Books in Series from Kent District Library
The What's Next database helps you search series fiction. This is a great resource if you want to know the order of books in a series.
