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Web Sites of Interest
- Book Browse Reading GuidesMore than 500 reading and discussion guides of popular works are available on this site. Search by title, author or genre.
- Reading Group ChoicesThis website suggests books and discussion topics for reading groups.
- Reading Group GuidesThe online community for reading groups. More than 3,000 guides (with discussion questions) available.
- Readers Advisor Online BlogThe blog is a free service of Reader's Advisor Online. You'll find essential news, tips, fun stuff and a community for exploring reader's advisory issues.
- NPR Books PageNational Public Radio provides this list of editor picks, book lists and short reviews.
Recent Additions to the BCC Library
Click here for a list of newly-added books and media, organized by category.
The list is usually updated monthly.
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"Good Books" Guide
We have found that students often ask for recommendations for books to read for pleasure in between classes or to take home and enjoy.
The library has a great selection of popular fiction on the Main floor. We are also making an effort to increase our offerings of other genres, such as urban fiction, historical fiction, mystery and romance.
This guide will help open the door to the great reading you can find here, as well as provide pathways to other sources or websites you might find interesting.
Happy reading!
Award Winners and Finalists
Call Number: PS3555.G292 V57 2011
Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, confront their pasts in this story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.
2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Call Number: PS3557.O668 L67 2010
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.
2010 National Book Award winner.
2010 National Book Award winner.
Call Number: PS3558.A8378 L54 2010
The fourth collection by the author portrays the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. It sets what it means to be "light longing for lightness" against what it means to "burn with all the humanity fire strips away." Hayes navigates melancholy, irreverence, and the sublime.
2010 National Book Award winner for poetry
2010 National Book Award winner for poetry
Call Number: ML420.S672 A3 2010
In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
2010 National Book Award winner for non-fiction.
2010 National Book Award winner for non-fiction.
Call Number: PZ7.G1273 Gr 2008
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
2009 Hugo Award and 2009 Newbery Award winner.
2009 Hugo Award and 2009 Newbery Award winner.
Call Number: PS3554.E355 P75 2010
Becoming wealthier and more socially connected throughout their marriage, Adam and Cynthia Morey also find themselves increasingly subject to the temptations of excess and risky behavior while their children struggle with their own privilege-based challenges.
2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction finalist.
2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction finalist.
Local Book Clubs
- Paramus Public LibraryScroll down this page for information about their next book club meeting.
- Ridgewood Public LibraryBook Circle meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month.
- BCCLSRefer to the BCCLS (Bergen County Cooperative Library System) homepage to find a book club in your hometown.
Books to Movies
If you want to read the book before you see the movie (or if you loved the movie and want to read the book), check these out:
Call Number: PZ7.C6837 Hun 2008
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Call Number: PZ7.S4654 Inv 2007 (graphic novels)
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