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Stags Read: Book Recommendations

This guide provides book recommendations with links to books from the Library's catalog and to other external websites.

Notable and Best Selling Books

New York Times

Authoritatively ranked lists of books sold in the United States, sorted by format and genre. Rankings reflect unit sales reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles published in the United States. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in tens of thousands of stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States.

 

Publisher's Weekly

Weekly news magazine focused on the international book publishing business. It is targeted at publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary agents, authors and the media. It offers feature articles and news on all aspects of the book business, bestsellers lists in a number of categories, and industry statistics, but its best known service is pre-publication book reviews, publishing some 9,000 per year.

 

Goodreads Highlights

Goodreads list of the Most Popular Books Published in 2023 and 2024

Goodreads annual Choice Awards Winners

 

Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Another app to keep track of books and find new titles is The StoryGraph.

Award Winning Books

Did you Know?

The Library has a Popular Reading Collection which consists of many New York Times print best sellers. It is located on the main level of the Library near the Young Adult books, graphic novels collections, and newspapers/magazines.

Thanks for the feedback of the Student Library Advisory Board we added genre stickers to the book spines to make it easier for you to browse.