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This is the place for finding a title suggested by library staff. The Durham County Library offers a Reader's Advisory service which is located on the third floor of the Main library. To reach a staff member with a question about reader's advisory, please call us at 919-560-0147 or email us at libraryfiction@durhamcountync.gov.
Some of the links including NoveList are subscription databases that are provided by NCLIVE. Use from outside the library requires your library card number.
Let's Talk About It
Join Durham County Library for a series of book discussions with scholars from North Carolina Central University on five seminal works. Multiple copies of each title are available from Stanford L. Warren Library.
| Apr. 10 - 2 p.m. | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | Stanford L. Warren - Registration |
| Apr. 24 - 2 p.m. | Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell | Stanford L. Warren - Registration |
NoveList Online Reader's Advisory
Web Site Recommendations by Genre
- General Fiction
- Science Fiction - Fantasy
- Mystery
- Horror
- Romance
- African-American
- Inspirational
- Westerns
- All Book Lovers
Reading Lists for All Ages
Our staff has compiled many lists with different types of reading choices. Check out these lists for adults, or head over to the Kid's pages for reading lists by grade level or Lexile score level.
Check out the reading list Jaki Shelton Green the Piedmont Poet Laureate has compiled for the Durham County Library.
Download eBooks and eAudioBooks
You can download both eBooks and eAudioBooks to your computer or hand-held device. Check out our Downloadables page.
Season's Readings
Read book reviews and find staff picks from our award-winning annual publication, Season's Readings. Check out the 2009 online version of Season's Readings.
Award Winning Titles
American Book Awards
Book Sense Book of the Year
Caldecott Medal
Man Booker Award
National Book Critics Circle
National Book Awards
Newberry Medal
Nobel Prize in Literature
North Carolina Literary Awards
Pen/Faulkner Foundation Award
Pulitizer Prizes
Book Club Kits
Everything for your next book club meeting in a sturdy tote! Check out the Book Club Kit page.
- Readers guides
- Suggested reading
- Questions to think and talk about
- 15 copies of each book
- Choose from 23 titles by authors such as Lee Smith, Oliver Sacks, Barbara Kingsolver and Truman Capote.
Book Club Kits are made possible by a generous grant from the Friends of the Durham Library.
Join an Online Book Club
Book Clubs
Book Club Directory - please help us grow this list by sending us your book club information.
Check out one of the book clubs sponsored by the Durham County Library. To find out when they meet next, try our Online Calendar of Events
Last Update: March 22, 2010
