Featured Titles in the Library

Popular Catalog Searches

Best Books • Group Reading • Reading Interests

Selected Magazines in the Library

Bookmarks • New York Times Book Review • Realms of Fantasy

Premium Online Resources for Library Cardholders

• Books and Authors
  expert book reviews, recommendations, author biographies, and more
• Literature Criticism Online
  modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres
• Literature eBook Collection (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
  texts providing in-depth analysis of noted literary works and of the life, works, career, and critical importance of noted authors
• Literature Resource Center
  literary criticism, author biographies, work overviews, and more
• LitFinder
  locate poems, plays, speeches, stories and essays
• NoveList
  guide to fiction; author read-alikes, award winners, book discussion guides and more
• Scribner Writers Series
  more than 2,000 original, scholar-signed biocritical entries averaging 15-20 pages each
• Sirs Renaissance
  full-text articles on art and literature
• Something About the Author
  examines the life and work of authors and illustrators of books for young adults and children
• Twayne's Authors Series
  in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and the development of literary genres

More Magazine and Newspaper Articles

Internet Resources

Book Reviews • Reading Groups • Reading Lists

Book Reviews

• Amazon.com
  offers reviews for thousands of titles
• New York Times Sunday Book Review
  current reviews from the New York Times as well as the option to search for reviews back to 1981
• Salon
  includes reviews of intriguing new books

Reading Groups

• Book Discussion Kits
  Rochester Hills Public library collection of over one hundred thirty different fiction and nonfiction titles for your book group
• Reading Group Guides

• Reading Group Choices
  yearly choices for book group readers
• LitLovers 
  find books, reviews, discussion guides, or take a literature course.
  
  

Reading Lists

• Good Reads
  recommended titles, both fiction and nonfiction, from the RHPL staff
• Lists of Lists
  from Fiction-L, a readers' advisory listserv
• Michigan Center for the Book - Book Lists
  Michigan books and authors