Resources for Readers

Welcome to our Reader's Advisory page! Here, you'll find lists of many of our favorite books as well as curated lists of great books by genre or theme.

Welcome to our 2025 Reading Challenge: Booked for the Year!

This year, you'll have the opportunity to participate in our challenge either using a physical Bingo Card that you'll pick up at the library OR by using a digital Bingo Card through Beanstack!

If you'd like to participate digitally, you'll follow this link to our Reading Challenge page: https://eldredgelibrary.beanstack.org/reader365 .

Register here and then click on Challenges and Select "Booked for the Year." Once you've done that, you can choose "Bingo Card," click on the space you'd like to begin with, and follow the instructions from there! Each space will require two activities: Selecting/Reading a book and Logging the Book you've read!

Once you've unlocked a Bingo Badge, you'll be entered into a Grand Prize drawing. For each Bingo you earn, you gain an entry into the drawing.

Good luck and have fun!

If you have any questions throughout the process, please don't hesitate to contact Mike at mmccartney@clamsnet.org!

Are you still finishing our 2024 Reading Challenge, Tales in Time? You can find the list of books here!

What Should I Read Next?

We have compiled lists of books for a variety of genres. These are a work in progress, to be updated and changed as new books continue to be published. If there is a genre you are interested in, please inquire at the Reference Desk. Adobe Reader is needed to read these files. Happy Reading!

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Read Around the World

Looking for something new or something you may have missed? Click on each of the pictures, then click on each book jacket to be directed to the CLAMS page to place a request.

What We're Reading - Staff Picks

We love to read here at the Eldredge, and we like to talk about it! Here are some of our recent staff picks. You can also find staff pick books highlighted throughout the library.

The Briar Club - Kate Quinn
The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman
Tiny Pep Talks by Paula Skaggs
Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins

Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall
Duma Key - Stephen King
The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carre

An Affair of Spies - Ronald H. Balson
Rumpole Returns - John Mortimer
Somewhere Beyond the Sea - T.J. Klune

The Dutch House - Anne Patchett (Audiobook narrated by Tom Hanks)
Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green

Margo's Got Money Troubles - Rufi Thorpe (Audiobook narrated by Elle Fanning)

What We're Reading - Trustee Recommendations

The Library is privately managed by a Board of Trustees. Their role is to oversee the function, finances and facility, prepare and adopt written policies that govern the Libraries activities and act as an advocate for the Library within our community. The Trustees are of course not only library supporters, but big readers! Here's what they currently recommend:

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James MacBride

The Revenge of Geography by Robert Kaplan

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

The Wager by David Grann

How to Know a Person by David Brook

The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons

A Little Ray of Sunshine by Kristan Higgins

Top Twelve Most Checked Out Books at EPL in 2024!

Online Resources

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles. For school media specialists and teachers there are Standards-Based Thematic Units and Picture Book Extenders, as well as specific teaching guides for using fiction in the classroom.

BookPage is a monthly book review publication distributed to more than 450,000 avid readers through subscribing bookstores and public libraries. Founded in 1988 and located in Nashville, TN, BookPage serves as a broad-based selection guide to the best new books published every month. The tone is upbeat and literate, focusing on bestsellers as well as new discoveries. All of the content from the print edition is posted on BookPage.com each month.

Booklist Reader is Booklist’s new library patron–facing magazine, featuring diverse readers' advisory recommendations, in print and on audio, for readers of all ages.