Book News & Reviews
Whatever your taste, your library has a book for you. On this page are websites you can explore and recommendations that will help you get more from your reading. Why not start with our Reading for Pleasure brochure?
Book Reviews & Releases
Prize Winners
- The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency"
- The Man Booker Prize for fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.
- The Pulitzer Prize, is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City.
- The Costa Book Awards are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. However, they are also open to writers from the Republic of Ireland. They were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006, when Costa Coffee, a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship.
- Miles Franklin Literary Award - The Miles Franklin Literary Award celebrates Australian character and creativity and nurtures the continuing life of literature about Australia. It is awarded for the novel of the year which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases.
If you liked ...
- If you liked - Hennepin County Library has put online "a handy reference guide to authors and genres." Users may browse all the subject categories, which range from Christian Fiction to techno-thrillers and horror. Search the databse by author or theme, or view the links to other resources from Hennepin County Library. A wonderful readers' advisory resource for librarians and book lovers alike!
Not sure what you're looking for?
- Whichbook gives the opportunity to make choices such as plot shape, type of main character, country the book is set in. This website starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of the 'good read' they are looking for but don't quite know how to define.
- Why not try looking at a Reading Map for inspiration.