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Additional Recommended Resources

Additional Resources/Websites
- Popular Awards
  - NoveList Plus - Find reading recommendations, fiction or nonfiction. Find award winners, find books that match your interests, read-alikes for your favorite titles and authors, or ready-made book lists on your favorite genres.
  - Booker Prize - the best novel of the year
  - Pulitzer Prizes - achievement in American journalism, literature, or music
  - Nobel Prize for Literature - outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, economics, promotion of peace.
  - National Book Awards - given to one book (author) in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation, and young people's literature.
  - Bram Stoker Awards - horror
  - Mystery awards - Agatha, Edgar, etc.
  - RITA Awards - romance
  - Hugo Awards - the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year
  - Audie Awards - audiobooks
  - Morris Award - honors a book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.
- And the story continues....
  - NoveList Plus - Find reading recommendations, fiction or nonfiction. Find books that match your interests, read-alikes for your favorite titles and authors, or ready-made book lists on your favorite genres.
  - Books and Authors (Gale) - Search by title, author, subject, time period, geographic location, character and reading level.
  - Calcasieu Parish Public Library's catalog
  - Kent District Library's "What's Next in a Series--Harlequin not included
  - Series & Sequels juvenile titles (Mid-Continent Public Library)
- Websites
  - AllReaders.com - run by a librarian
  - Bookpage - book reviews, interviews and more
  - Comics Worth Reading
  - Fantastic Fiction
  - fictiondb - a guide to authors and books
  - Lambda Literature - LGBTQ+
  - LibraryThing
  - Open Library
  - RA (Readers Advisory) for All

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