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Readers' Advisory: Adult Resources

Guide to finding reading recommendations.

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Reading Challenges

Stuck in a reading slump? Looking for new authors, genres or a good challenge? The challenges below are filled with exciting reading prompts that will help you explore new genres, authors & more!

Themed Bibliographies

Have You Met?

Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, and Anxious People, as well as two novellas and one work of nonfiction. His books are published in more than forty countries.

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Library Resources

To access the resources below from home you'll need to log in using your library card and PIN (last four digits of whatever phone number we have on file for you).

Blogs, Podcasts and More

Best of 2022!

The best Fiction of 2022!

Even More Recommendations!

Fantastic Fiction

Bibliographies for over 40,000 authors. Use the browse menu on the left to find an author by surname, or use the search box above to search for an author or book.  Information on over 500,000 books. Throughout the site, just click on a book to see its cover picture, description and publication details.

All Readers

AllReaders.com contains detailed book and movie reviews from many different genres of books!

Read.gov: Adults

From the Library of Congress

WorldCat Genres

Browse dozens of fiction genres for hundreds of titles, authors, subjects, characters, locations, and more, ranked by popularity in the world's libraries.

Challenge

Alamance County Public Libraries loves a good reading challenge, so we have plenty for you to choose from.  Check out some of our challenges below!

Or try a challenge below!