Reading Lists For All

As I was combing through my RSS feeds today, I noticed that there were lots of suggested reading lists which I wanted to highlight.  So for today's post, I present a roundup of recent reading lists from all over the web.

Try one of these suggested titles out for yourself, or pass a list on to your patrons.  In fact, why not use these lists as a starting point to inspire you to suggest something new to at least one patron today.

• From The Guardian UK there is this list of books in which reality "gets a little bit bendy"
• One of the best historical fiction writers today, Geraldine Brooks, shares her favorite historical fiction on the Book Beast
• From io9, Ten Works of Science Fiction that are really Fantasy
• From Lit Lists, Top 5 Manhunt Tales
• The Locus Award finalists were just released.  This is my favorite SF/Fantasy Award because it does both genres and splits them.  Click here for the full list.  I would especially suggest the short stories to patrons.  I would also suggest Locus' annual Recommended Reading List which is a recap of the best Science Fiction and Fantasy from the last year.  Here is the 2010 list (which came out in February 2011).
• The Year's Best Crime Novels including a separate lists for debuts from Booklist.

Don't forget, at the BPL we have our suggested reading lists archive and our Browsers' Corner lists.  You can access these at anytime.  I also tag all posts with "reading lists," so you can easily pull up posts with reading lists (both from the web and original) going back almost 4 years now.  So get out there and start suggesting books to your patrons.