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BOOKMARKED

Bookmarked: Automatic Hold Service

Forgetting if you’ve placed a hold? Try Bookmarked: Automatic Hold Service from the Plainville Public Library! Choose from our selected authors, and we’ll reserve their new titles for you, notifying you as soon as they become available. You’ll automatically be added to the hold list whenever your favorite authors release something new.

 

Complete this form, and we'll do the rest!

       
         
         
Prize Winner

Lists of Award Winning Books

 

BookBrowse Major Book Awards

 

Goodreads Prize Winners Book List

       
         
All about romance

All About Romance

Created in 1996 and since then has offered unbiased book reviews, author interviews, industry commentary and much more to romance readers.

 

       
Book Marks

Book Marks

Every day, the Book Marks staff scours the most important and active outlets of literary journalism in the US and beyond and logs their book reviews. When a book is reviewed by at least three outlets, each of those reviews is assigned an individual rating (Rave, Positive, Mixed or Pan). These ratings are then averaged into a result and the book becomes part of our Book Marks database.

       
Bookfinity

Bookfinity

Start making custom lists, leave unique book reviews, and receive personalized book recommendations based on your reading personality. Created by book lovers, for book lovers. Bookfinity makes it easy to discover your next favorite read.

       
Bookpage

BookPage

BookPage highlights the best new books across all genres, as chosen by our editors. Every book we cover is one that we are excited to recommend to readers. 

       
Celebrity Book Club

Celebrity Book Clubs

Discover the latest celebrity book club picks or past picks to add to your reading list here.

       
CT Center for the Books

CT Center For The Book

The Connecticut Center for the Book promotes the written and spoken word throughout the state.  We also work to promote awareness of CT libraries, as well as CT Authors and their books.

       
Fantasticfiction

Fantastic Fiction

Search and browse the complete works of over 50,000 bestselling fiction authors, with all the latest books and series listed in order.

       
Gnooks

Gnooks

Gnod (Global Network of Discovery) is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what literature they like and what they don't like.  It will ask you which authors you like and then think about which other authors you might like too.  

       
Goodreads

Goodreads

Find and read more books you'll love, and keep track of the books you want to read.

       
Historical Fiction

Historical Novels

A guide to historical novels and authors of historical fiction; books organized by setting, with information on literary style and genre.

       
Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

Book reviews, recommendations, and the latest literary news from the most trusted voice in book discovery, Kirkus Reviews.

       
Literature map

Literature Map

Based on Gnooks, Gnod's literature recommendation system. The more people like an author and another author, the closer together these two authors will move on the Literature-Map.

       
NYT

New York Times: The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

       
No flying no tights

No Flying, No Tights

Graphic novel, comics, manga, and anime, reader-made reviews made by kids, teens, and adults. No Flying, No Tights is recognized as a major hub for graphic literature.

       
Shomberg

Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries and is a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.The Black Liberation Reading List represent books with a particular focus on books by Black authors. 

       
Stop you're killing me

Stop You're Killing Me

A resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books. 

       
What should I read next

What Should I Read Next?

Discover books you'll love!

Enter a book you like and the site will analyze our huge database of real readers' favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.

       
KDL What's Next

What's Next

Our What's Next®: Books in Series database helps you search series fiction.  A series is two or more books linked by character(s),settings, or other common traits.

 

What's Next®: Books in Series Database of Kent District Library

       
Whichbook

Whichbook

Fancy something unusual and unpredictable? Funny or sexy? No problem. Use our unique mood and emotion search to find great books with exactly the flavour you've asked for.

       
Worlds without end

Worlds Without End

Worlds Without End is a fan-run web site and growing online community, dedicated to identifying, reading and sharing the best Speculative Fiction books the genre has to offer.