Ravenous Readers Corner

  • BTBL Book Subject Categories (WORD), (PDF)
    • What is BTBL Staff Reading? Winter 2012/13 (WORD), (PDF)
    • Summer Reading Picks from BTBL Staff 2013 (WORD), (PDF)
    • What We're Reading: BTBL Staff Picks Summer 2014 (WORD), (PDF)
    • What We're Reading: BTBL Staff Picks Winter 2014/15 (WORD), (PDF)
    • BTBL Staff Picks: Revisiting Books from Childhood Fall 2015 (WORD), (PDF)
    • Adventure: Apocalypse and Disaster Novels (WORD), (PDF)
    • Adventure in the Great Outdoors, Non-Fiction Books (WORD), (PDF)
    • Adventure: Novels About Epidemics and Superbugs (WORD), (PDF)
    • Adventure: Treasure Hunting, Conspiracies, Secret Societies (WORD), (PDF)
    • Art History, Artists, and Photographers (WORD), (PDF)
    • Award Winning Books: National Book Award (WORD), (PDF)
    • Banned Books (WORD), (PDF)
    • Baseball: the Game, the Players, the History (WORD), (PDF)
    • Biographies and Memoirs from the Golden Age of Hollywood (WORD), (PDF)
    • Biographies and Memoirs of the Presidents of the United States of America (WORD), (PDF)
    • Biographies of Country Music Stars (WORD), (PDF)
    • Biographies of Jazz and Blues Singers and Musicians (WORD), (PDF)
    • Biographies of Rock N Roll Stars (WORD), (PDF)
    • Books Referenced in "The End of Your Life Book Club" (WORD), (PDF)
    • Cesar Chavez Day (WORD), (PDF)
    • Children's Animal Stories (WORD), (PDF)
    • Children's Books in Print/Braille (WORD), (PDF)
    • Children's Classics for Young and Adult Readers (WORD), (PDF)
    • Children's Newbery Award Winners (WORD), (PDF)
    • Classic Books by California Authors (WORD), (PDF)
    • Classics: Pre-20th Century English Novels (WORD), (PDF)
    • Cookbooks: All American Recipes (WORD), (PDF)
    • Cookbooks: Dessert Recipes (WORD), (PDF)
    • Cookbooks: From Around the World (WORD), (PDF)
    • Cookbooks: Quick and Easy Recipes (WORD), (PDF)
    • Cookbooks: Vegetarian and Vegan (WORD), (PDF)
    • Current Events and Concerns about the Environment: Climate Change, Ecology, and Pollution (WORD), (PDF)
    • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners (WORD), (PDF)
    • Diabetes: Non-Fiction Guides (WORD), (PDF)
    • Fantasy Series (WORD), (PDF)
    • Fantasy: Urban Fantasy Series (WORD), (PDF)
    • Gardening Books (WORD), (PDF)
    • Gentle and Inoffensive Fiction (WORD), (PDF)
    • History: American Civil War (WORD), (PDF)
    • History: American Revolution (WORD), (PDF)
    • History: California (WORD), (PDF)
    • Holidays in the Springtime, Fiction and Non-Fiction Books (WORD), (PDF)
    • Horror and Frightfully Suspenseful Stories (WORD), (PDF)
    • Independent Living for People with Disabilities (WORD), (PDF)
    • Inspirational Non-Fiction Books about People with Disabilities (WORD), (PDF)
    • International Crime Novels (WORD), (PDF)
    • Inventions, Ideas, and Scientists that Shaped the World (WORD), (PDF)
    • Job Searching and Career Development (WORD), (PDF)
    • Movie Books: Seen the Movie? Read the Book that Inspired It (WORD), (PDF)
    • Mysteries: Agatha Award Winners (WORD), (PDF)
    • Mysteries: Culinary (WORD), (PDF)
    • Mysteries: Historical (WORD), (PDF)
    • Mysteries: Spy and Espionage Novels (WORD), (PDF)
    • Mysteries: True Crime (WORD), (PDF)
    • Nobel Prize in Literature (WORD), (PDF)
    • Popular and Contemporary Fiction Favorites 2006 Through 2008 (WORD), (PDF)
    • Popular and Contemporary Fiction Favorites 2009 Through 2011 (WORD), (PDF)
    • Popular and Contemporary Fiction Favorites 2012 Through 2014 (WORD), (PDF)
    • Popular and Contemporary Fiction Favorites 2012 Through 2014 (WORD), (PDF)
    • Popular and Contemporary Fiction Favorites 2015 Through 2017 (WORD), (PDF)
    • President Obama Recommends (WORD), (PDF)
    • Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction (WORD), (PDF)
    • Romance: Amish (WORD), (PDF)
    • Romance: RITA Award-Winning Books (WORD), (PDF)
    • Romance: Gentle and Inspirational (WORD), (PDF)
    • Romance Novels: Historical (WORD), (PDF)
    • Romance: Paranormal (WORD), (PDF)
    • Romance: Spicy Novels (WORD), (PDF)
    • Science Fiction Space Opera Novels (WORD), (PDF)
    • Short, Sweet and Simple Fiction (WORD), (PDF)
    • Travel, Sports, and Adventure for People with Disabilities (WORD), (PDF)
    • Vampires: The Classics and Contemporaries (WORD), (PDF)
    • Women's Lives and Relationships Fiction (WORD), (PDF)
    • World Literature (WORD), (PDF)
    • Young Adult: Action, Adventure, and Intrigue (WORD), (PDF)
    • Young Adult and Children's Books: Schneider Family Book Award (WORD), (PDF)
    • Young Adult: Contemporary Realistic Novels (WORD), (PDF)
    • Read-Alikes for Barbara Kingsolver (WORD), (PDF)
    • Read-Alikes for the Hunger Games Series (WORD), (PDF)
    • Read-Alikes for Lilian Jackson Braun (WORD), (PDF)
    • Read-Alikes for Nicholas Sparks (WORD), (PDF)
    • Read-Alikes for the Stephanie Plum Series (WORD), (PDF)
    • Read-Alikes for VC Andrews (WORD), (PDF)
    • Read-Alikes for Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour (WORD), (PDF)

    This monthly report lists NLS production-related information on books selected from the combined bestseller lists of the Los Angeles Times (LAT), the New York Times (NYT), and the Washington Post (WP): NLS Bestseller Report.

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