Manderino Library: Reader's Resources: Home

Introduction

You've got some free time on your hands and want to find a good book. Here's some recommendations and some tools you can use to find reading to suit your mood.

Bestseller Lists

Other Tools

Google Books

Google Books
Search the full-text of millions of books. Use as a "discovery" tool to find books on your topic. Books in the public domain (generally, pre-1923) are available full-text. Newer books offer limited viewing--from many pages to nothing.Note: This is just for books (and some magazines). To find scholarly articles, use Google Scholar.

Learn more About Google Books and the Google Books Library Project.
Additional info at: Google Books Wikipedia Article

Places to find Recommendations

Goodreads
Awards & YALSA Booklists
The Top 100 Sports Books of All Time
From Sports Illustrated
Genres Book Search via WorldCat

Literature Resource Center [Note: Do not use Chrome]
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Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on authors from all time periods, in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. For literary research, this is the place to begin! (Gale)

Literature Resource Center includes most, but not all, of: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and other selected Gale literary resources.
Gale Literary Index is a master index to every literary series published by Gale in print--including some series not included in LRC. This index is helpful if you have access to the print versions of the Gale resources.

Facebook WeRead
If you have a Facebook account, you can use this app to keep track of what you've read, would like to read, and find out what your friends are reading.

Recommendation Generators

Search: E-Books & Library Catalog

NOTE: Although direct access to the Library book shelves is closed, you can still request books and other items from our collection for Curbside Pickup. See our Guide to learn how.

Search for E-Books along with physical Books, DVDs, and other items. This search combines our online E-Book collections and our Library Catalog of physical items in Manderino Library.

Search ONLY physical items located in Manderino: Library Catalog
Search other libraries with E-ZBorrow (need more info?)
Locate items with Google Books
View the library's E-Books Guide
You can Renew Library Materials Online (need step-by-step directions?)