Genres and sub-genres
Fiction
The
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
To
Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Poetry
The
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
Leaves
of Grass by Walt Whitman
The
Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Childrens
Little
House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Charlotte’s
Web by E.B. Whie
A
Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Young Adult
Just
One Day by Gayle Forman
Splintered
by A.G. Howard
The Shadowhunter’s
Codex by Cassandra Clare
Drama (mainly intended to be performed in a
play)
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Romeo
and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Crime
In
Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The
Godfather by Mario Puzo
And
Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Mystery /Thriller
Presumed
Innocent by Scott Turow
The
Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Mystic
River by Dennis Lehane
Romance
Effortless
by S.C. Stephens
Beautiful
Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Slammed
by Colleen Hoover
History
A
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The
Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Gone
with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Fantasy
Dune
by Frank Herbert
Enders
Game by Orson Scott Card
Brave
New World by Aldous Huxley
Adventure
King
Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Treasure
Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Supernatural / Paranormal
Silver
Shadows by Richelle Mead
Illusive
by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Halfway
to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Horror
Interview
with a Vampire by Anne Rice
Salems
Lot by Stephen King
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Western
True
Grit by Charles Portis
Riders
of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
The
Virginian by Owen Wister
Literary Fiction (eg Salmon Rushdie,
Margaret Atwood)
Nineteen
Eighty-Four by George Orwell
To
Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Humour/Comic
Life,
the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
The
Zombie survival guide by Max Brooks
Your
still hot to me by Jean Kittson
Science fiction
The
Long Mars by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
The
Dark Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson
Divergent
by Veronica Roth
Hybrid – a combination of 2 or more genres
The
Invisible Man by Herbert George Wells (Sci-Fi & Romance)
World
without End by Ken Follett (Historical & Adventure)
The
Mosaic of Shadows by Tom Harper (Adventure & Romance)
Erotica
The
Mammoth Book of Erotic Romance and Domination by Maxim Jakubowski
Shadow’s
Stand by Sarah McCarty
A
Girl Walks into a Wedding by Helena S Paige
Short story
Shooting
an Elephant by George Orwell
The
Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page
Bellflower
by Guy de Maupassant
Novella
The
Third Man by Graham Greene
Breakfast
at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Three
Blind Mice by Agatha Christie
Graphic Novels
The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
Hellboy:
Library Edition Volume 1: Seed of Destruction/Wake the Devil by Mike Mignola
Marvels
(New Printing) by Kurt Busiek
Abridged or condensed novels (Readers
Digest)
Crossfire
by Dick Francis
Letters
from Home by Kristina McMorris
Sweet
Misfortune by Kevin Alan Milne
Translated Fiction
Horses
of God by Mahi Binebine (from French)
Blinding
by Mircea Cartarescu (from Romanian)
Tirza
by Arnon Grunberg (from Dutch)
Non-Fiction
The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Blink:
The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics:
A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt
Biography
John
Adams by David McCullough
The
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Into
the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Autobiography
Angelas
Ashes by Frank McCourt
The
Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Night
by Ellie Wiesel
Memoirs
Eat,
pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Running
with scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Naked
by David Sedaris
Titles of 3 well-respected scholarly books
on literature that you would find on the reference shelves of a university
library
The Collected Letters of W.B.Yeats: Volume
IV 1905-1907 by John Kelly, Ronald Schuchard
Adonis to Zorro. Oxford Dictionary of
reference and allusion Third Edition by Andrew Delahunty, Sheila Dignen
Cervantes in Seventeenth-Century England /
The Tapestry Turned by Dale B.J. Randall, Jackson C. Boswell
Other useful reference books (at least 5) on literature and/or fiction and/or reading as a cultural activity
On writing: A memoir of the craft by Stephen King
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century by M.H. Abrams
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J.A. Cuddon
The Reader's Companion to World Literature by Lillian Herlands Hornstein
On Literature by Umberto Eco
How Fiction Works by James Wood
A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose by B.R. Myers
New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction by Kingsley Amis
Terrors of Uncertainty: The Cultural Contexts of Horror Fiction
Readers advisor - give a description (reasonably current) - what do they do and what skills and knowledge do they need?
Doing a bit of research about readers advisory gives me the impression that it is more a service rather than a person - a service which a lot of libraries try to offer in one form or another. It is something that a lot of people who work in a library will face - the request to recommend a book. A reading adviser needs to understand that they cannot just recommend their own favourite books, as that would not be a broad enough base. One of the databases which can help is the Ebsco Novelist database, where you can find the 'Adult Popular Fiction Checklist, which contains many genres, and nearly 300 different authors. Discussing with friends, too, can be helpful. It is vital to keep up-to-date with the latest authors, as well as not losing track of the classics. Using resources such as goodreads and librarything can certainly be helpful as well. The right questions must be asked of the patron, but sometimes they may not be prepared to answer a lot of questions, just looking for something which they can pick up quickly.
It would probably be beneficial to keep some sort of list for yourself - which can be easy to check if someone requests a specific genre.
With the advent of these databases, it can be a very simple matter to offer this service, particularly as many of them also offer the opportunity to leave a personal review.
Other useful reference books (at least 5) on literature and/or fiction and/or reading as a cultural activity
On writing: A memoir of the craft by Stephen King
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century by M.H. Abrams
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J.A. Cuddon
The Reader's Companion to World Literature by Lillian Herlands Hornstein
On Literature by Umberto Eco
How Fiction Works by James Wood
A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose by B.R. Myers
New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction by Kingsley Amis
Terrors of Uncertainty: The Cultural Contexts of Horror Fiction
Readers advisor - give a description (reasonably current) - what do they do and what skills and knowledge do they need?
Doing a bit of research about readers advisory gives me the impression that it is more a service rather than a person - a service which a lot of libraries try to offer in one form or another. It is something that a lot of people who work in a library will face - the request to recommend a book. A reading adviser needs to understand that they cannot just recommend their own favourite books, as that would not be a broad enough base. One of the databases which can help is the Ebsco Novelist database, where you can find the 'Adult Popular Fiction Checklist, which contains many genres, and nearly 300 different authors. Discussing with friends, too, can be helpful. It is vital to keep up-to-date with the latest authors, as well as not losing track of the classics. Using resources such as goodreads and librarything can certainly be helpful as well. The right questions must be asked of the patron, but sometimes they may not be prepared to answer a lot of questions, just looking for something which they can pick up quickly.
It would probably be beneficial to keep some sort of list for yourself - which can be easy to check if someone requests a specific genre.
With the advent of these databases, it can be a very simple matter to offer this service, particularly as many of them also offer the opportunity to leave a personal review.
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