LibGuides: New & Noteworthy Collection: Getting Started

Recent Additions

The Adjunct Underclass: how America's colleges betrayed their faculty, their students, and their mission by Herb Childress
Call Number: LB2844.1.P3 C55 2019
Publication Date: 2019
All the Lives We Ever Lived: seeking solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth
Call Number: CT275.S5769 A3 2019
Publication Date: 2019
Doing Justice: a prosecutor's thoughts on crime, punishment, and the rule of law by Preet Bharara
Call Number: KF8700 .B43 2019
Publication Date: 2019
It's Great to Suck at Something: the unexpected joy of wiping out and what it can teach us about patience, resilience, and the stuff that really matters by Karen Rinaldi
Call Number: BF637.S4 R5736 2019
Publication Date: 2019
The Moment of Lift: how empowering women changes the world by Melinda Gates
Call Number: HQ1155 .G38 2019
Publication Date: 2019
Putin's World: Russia against the West and with the rest by Angela Stent
Call Number: DK510.764 .S75 2019
ISBN: 9781455533022
Publication Date: 2019

Reviews and Discussion

Reviews, author interviews, book discussions, books by genre, and more

Novelist Plus
Find lists of recommendations for fiction and non-fiction books based on genres, award winners, etc.

The A.V. Club
An entertainment website published by The Onion. It includes interviews, reviews, features, and other entertainment-related articles.
BookForum
"A showcase for rigorous and elegant writing" (the Village Voice). Founded in 1994, the print magazine is published five times a year and the website is updated daily.
BookPage
A monthly book review publication. The tone is upbeat and literate, focusing on bestsellers as well as new discoveries. All of the content from the print edition is posted on BookPage.com each month.
BookReporter
The Book Report Network offers book reviews, features, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts from new releases, contests and more every week.
Book Riot
Provides not only book recommendations and reviews but also features like blog posts and podcasts on all things related to books, giveaways, quizzes, and reading pathways.
Goodreads
Track the books you're reading, have read, and want to read, and get personalized book recommendations tailored to your literary tastes.
Literary Hub
Literary Hub is an organizing principle in the service of literary culture, a single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life.
Literary Kicks
A website about literature. It's also about music, philosophy, Internet culture, pacifism, visual art, world history, literary criticism, pop culture, politics, and bad television.
New York Review of Books
Described as “the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language” (Esquire), it includes essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film.
Urban Bookish
A space for the readers and writers of the Urban Fiction genre. The mission of Urban Bookish is to bring exposure and attention to the Urban Fiction genre by connecting readers with some of their favorite authors.
Well-Read Black Girl
Our goal is to introduce a cohort of diverse writers to future generations – contemporary authors who are non-binary, queer, trans, and disabled. To address inequalities and improve communities through reading and reflecting on the works of Black women.

Award Winners

Agatha Awards (Mystery)
Bram Stoker Awards (Horror)
Carnegie Medals for Excellence (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Edgar Awards (Mystery)
Hugo Award (Science Fiction Fantasy)
Lambda Literary Awards (LGBT literature)
Man Booker Prize (Fiction)
Women's Prize for Fiction (Ficton)
National Book Awards (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Nobel Prize for Literature (given to authors, not specific works)
PEN/Faulkner Award (Fiction)
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Nebula Awards (Science Fiction and Fantasy)

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eBooks & Audiobooks

OverDrive

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