Publisher's Weekly Best Book of Summer as an Awesome RA Tool

One of my favorite year round tools is now live-- The Publisher's Weekly Best Books of Summer 2019.

But while the list itself is great, it is the search bar that is the reason I adore this resource:

It is a little hard to see here on the blog, but click through and look at it for yourself.

While the list itself is displayed below the search bar as a slide show of one book at a time, you can use the search bar to look at the list by genre and for all age levels.

PLUS-- every summer reads list going back to 2012 AND every "Best" of the year list going back to 2009 is also accessible right there from the main navigation bar.

So many lists of great titles across the breadth of reading preferences, easily accessible, with very few clicks, are right at your digital fingertips.

Because remember last year's [or 5 year's ago's] best summer reads are still great summer reads right now. They are even great when it isn't summer.

And PW does this every time they update with their Summer Reads of Year End Best lists, linking both together and with the backlist each time.

Also, each book comes with an annotation that gives you a way to book talk the title to any patron. Remember, one of my biggest pieces of advice when it comes to hand selling titles to patrons is that you should not be afraid to use the words of others. These PW lists are the words of others that you can easily use to book talk any title, new or old, that appears on these lists. And the annotations also link to more information, interviews, reviews, etc.... about that title or author that had previously appeared in PW.

So stop reading this post and start hunting through the treasure trove of reading suggestions with ready to use book talks that makes up the PW Summer Reads list.