Don't Miss Lists and Other Reading Resources

 

Audiobooks

• OverDrive Downloadable Audiobooks - Listen to audiobooks on your computer, using your digital audio device or by burning CDs. [more] [search and reserve OverDrive titles]
• Playaway Audiobooks - Check out an MP3 player pre-loaded with an audiobook. [more] [search and reserve Playaway titles] New Fiction Audiobooks on CD
• New Nonfiction Audiobooks on CD
• Women Sleuths (2006) (books and audiobooks)
• more...

Bestsellers

• Beyond Bestsellers: Best of the New, Recommendations from Madison Public Library Staff
• Fiction Hardcover
• Nonfiction Hardcover
• Last Year's Bestselling Fiction Titles
• Last Year's Bestselling Nonfiction Titles
• Mass Market
• Trade Paperback
• see also Awards

Book Awards and Genre for Adults

• Academy Award
• Grammy Award
• Nobel Prize
• Pulitzer Prize
• more...

Children and Teen Literature

• Children and Teen Book Lists
• Children and Teen Award Winners

Fiction for Adults

• New Adult Fiction
• New Graphic Novels
• New Inspirational Fiction Books
• African American Fiction (2009)
• Contemporary Wisconsin Authors (fiction and non-fiction works) (2009)
• Fiction Bestsellers: 1881-2008 (2009)
• Generation X (2008)
• Lost Book List (2008)
• Man's Best Friend (2008)
• Off the Beat: Recommendations from Madison Police Officers (fiction, non-fiction, children's and teen works) (2009)
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Read-Alikes (2008)
• Vampires (2006)
• more...

Movies on VHS and DVD

• New Feature DVDs
• New Foreign Language DVDs
• New Special Interest DVDs
• Islamic World Videos at Madison Public Library (2005)
• Wisconsin Film Festival Titles from Past Years (2009)
• more...

Music on Compact Disc

• Adult New CDs
• more...

Mysteries for Adults

• New Mysteries
• Cozy Mysteries (2009)
• Women Sleuths (2006) (books and audiobooks)
• "Retired" Women Sleuths (2006)
• more...

Nonfiction for Adults

• New Adult Foreign Language Books
• New Adult Nonfiction
• African-American Culture: 2007 to Present (2009)
• African-American Culture: a Retrospective List to 2006 (2009)
• Baking Bread (2008)
• Beyond Bestsellers: The Best of the New (2009)
• Contemporary Wisconsin Authors (fiction and non-fiction works) (2009)
• Economics/Investment Classic Titles (2009)
• Genealogy (2006)
• Greening Our World (March 2009) PDF version or HTML version
• History Books, Recommended: published 2008 (2009)
• Investment Resources at the Library (2008)
• Microhistories (2007)
• Nonfiction that Reads Like Fiction (2009)
• Off the Beat: Recommendations from Madison Police Officers (fiction, non-fiction, children's and teen works) (2009)
• Poetry by Dewey (2009)
• Starting a Small Business (rev. 2009)
• Thanks for the Memoirs (2007)
• Understanding the Middle East (Fall 2008)
• Wisconsin Sons and Daughters (Winter 2007)
• more...

links to a commercial list service offered by Madison Public Library
monthly lists of materials in the Library's online catalog

 

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