Books for every mood
Find some good books to read by subject, genre or mood. Read online or print for your next trip to the library.
Check out the lists below!
True Tales | Mysteries | Private Eyes
Fiction Just For Fun
SciFi, Fantasy and Graphic Novels
Literary Awards and Classics | Made for the Movies
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.
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, Fantasy and Graphic Novels
- 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.
- Graphic Novel Series (PDF): Great Graphic Novel series for all age groups, available at libraries throughout Washington County.
- Nonfiction Comics for Adults (PDF): Biographies, news reporting, and enjoyable true stories, told in graphic novel form.
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.
Made for the Movies
- Real to Reel (PDF): Biographies and true tales of adventure made into popular movies.
- Oscars 2009 & previous years (PDF): Before they were made into Oscars-nominated films, they were great novels and non-fiction books.
Lists updated August 2009 -- all books held by WCCLS libraries as of this date

