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"I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what? They never find him. And you know why they never find him? It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid."

—Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts], Recurring Saturday Night Live comedy bit

 
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Books for Every Mood

Books for every mood

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True Tales | Mysteries | Private Eyes
Fiction Just For Fun | Science Fiction & Fantasy 
Literary Awards & Classics | Made for the Movies
Graphic Novels & Comics


True Tales

  • Fearless Females (PDF): Activists, survivors, and advocates for social change.
  • Women Wanderers (PDF): Adventurers, explorers, and pioneers in the age of discovery.
  • What a Difference a Year Makes (PDF): Books about individual pivotal years in history, and true stories each a year in duration.
  • Fork It Over: Food Writing (PDF): These books are good enough to eat.

Mysteries

  • Cozy Mysteries (PDF): Light-hearted mysteries with no graphic violence, explicit sex, or strong language.
  • Get Clued In (PDF): Edgar Award winners.
  • Murder Around the World (PDF): International mystery series set in every continent. Yes, even Antarctica!
  • Private Eye Mysteries (PDF): Winners of the Agatha and Shamus Awards.

Fiction Just For Fun

  • Pretty as a Picture (PDF): Art and artists in fiction.
  • Westerns: Spur Awards (PDF): Western winners.

Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • The Apocalypse: For when you just need a book about the end of the world. These books show the underlying fears and concerns of the times in which they were written better than most history books.
  • Sci-Fi Awards (PDF): Hugo and Nebula Award winners.

Literary Awards and Classics

  • Nobel Prize for Literature 2008 (PDF): Current and previous Nobel Laureates.
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2009 (PDF): Current and previous Pulitzer-winning titles.
  • Classics (PDF): Favorite fiction classics up to 1970.
  • Modern Classics (PDF): Fiction classics from 1970 to today.

Made for the Movies

  • Real to Reel (PDF): Biographies and true tales of adventure made into popular movies.
  • Oscars 2010 & previous years (PDF): Before they were made into Oscars-nominated films, they were great novels and non-fiction books.

Graphic Novels & Comics

  • Graphic Novel Series (PDF): Great Graphic Novel series for all age groups, available at libraries throughout Washington County.
  • When Crime Pays (PDF): Hard-boiled Graphic Novel series and stand-alones.
  • Horror (PDF): Frighteningly good Graphic Novel series and stand-alones.
  • Nonfiction Comics for Adults (PDF): Biographies, news reporting, and enjoyable true stories, told in graphic novel form.

Lists updated January 2010.

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