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NewYork Times Best Seller List

Browse best seller lists, book reviews & news for authors, ...

TeenReads.com

New books, book reviews, author talks, reading lists and more...

Based on the Book

'Based on the Book' is a compilation of over 1,000 book titles, short stories, and plays that have been made into movies. utilizing the Internet Movie Database as the authority on release
dates, all movies in this collection have been released since 1980.

Newport Beach Public Library

Check here for the OPAC of the Newport Public Library.

Click on the tabs for the type of information you need. The "Find Information" tab has all of the online services listed. You must be a member of the library to use these services and can access them by putting in your library card number. It does not cost anything to become a member of the Newport Beach Public Library.

California Recommended
Literature (K-12)
This is the California recommended literature list of books students should read. To use this site you need to select the "Search List" option. From this page you can scroll down and select the grade
level, language, culture, genre, etc. you are interested in. Set the list up by author or title and how many titles you would like on a page. Each title is annotated.

101 Great Books

This is the College Board's recommemded list of books for readers of all ages.

Fantastic Fiction

This site has bibliographies for over 5000 authors and information on over 100,000 books. Check on books by author, awards, etext, series, and more.

Orange County Public Library

Check here for the OPAC of the Orange County Public Library. Click on the left hand side of the home page to get to their OPAC. If you are a member of the system you can use your library card number and PIN to gain access to the online resources. If you do not have a library card you can still see what materials they have in the system. It does not cost to become a member of the Orange County Public Library

Favorite Teenage Angst Books

A celebration of teenage angst and personal discovery. Here, you'll learn about great books for teens, meet interesting authors and other creative folks, and join me in honoring the joys and struggles of our teenage years.

Genreflecting

A great new way to find great new reads?
The key to your reading pleasure?
An authoritative professional guide for practicing librarians and booksellers?
The ultimate textbook and training tool for readers' advisors?
A reference book packed with information about fiction?

ALL OF THE ABOVE!
Summer Reading Program for Honors and AP Students

The EHS Language Arts Department expects honors program students to read these books prior to the beginning of the school term for their grade level course.

Huntington Beach Public Library

Check here for the OPAC of the HBPL. Select Catalog/Renewals, Login to Geoweb, and if you are not a member of the library select "Guest Login" to search the library catalog. If you have a library card from the library enter your card number (without any spaces) and your password. This will not only allow you to view the library catalog, but to use the library's online services as well. To become a member of the Huntington Beach Public Library it costs $25.00 / year if you do not live in Huntington Beach. It is free is you live in the city.

Learning About the Author
and Illustrator

Many readers are curious about the creators of the books they enjoy. Here are more than 600 links to author/illustrator sites that
will help satisfy that curiosity. Included in the site are Children's, Young Adult and Adult authors and illustrators.

What's Next?

What's Next" helps you search adult fiction in series. A "series" is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits.
e.g. Sue Grafton's "A is for Alibi", "B is for..." etc.
"Star Wars" series
Searches can be made by title, author (last name, first name), or series

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Suggestions from those who know...librarians!

FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH RECOMMENDS...

“25 Books to Read Before You’re 25”
(From Seventeen Magazine, June 2004)

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. Atonement by Ian Mcewan
3. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
4. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
6. Flannery O’Conner: The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner
7. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
8. Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
9. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
11. A Lesson Before Dying by Thomas Gaines
12. The Little Prince by Saint Antoine de Exupery
13. My Antonia by Willa Cather
14. Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
15. Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
16. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
17. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
18. The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham
19. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in books by Azar Nafisi
20. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
21. Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
22. Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
23. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
24. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
25. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy