Books for Every Mood

Listed by Subject or Type

True Tales | Mysteries | Private Eyes
Fiction Just For Fun | Science Fiction & Fantasy 
Literary Awards & Classics | Made for the Movies
Graphic Novels & Comics

True Tales

• Fearless Females (PDF): Activists, survivors, and advocates for social change.
• Women Wanderers (PDF): Adventurers, explorers, and pioneers in the age of discovery.
• What a Difference a Year Makes (PDF): Books about individual pivotal years in history, and true stories each a year in duration.
• Fork It Over: Food Writing (PDF): These books are good enough to eat.

Mysteries

• Cozy Mysteries (PDF): Light-hearted mysteries with no graphic violence, explicit sex, or strong language.
• Get Clued In (PDF): Edgar Award winners.
• Murder Around the World (PDF): International mystery series set in every continent. Yes, even Antarctica!
• Private Eye Mysteries (PDF): Winners of the Agatha and Shamus Awards.

Fiction Just For Fun

• Pretty as a Picture (PDF): Art and artists in fiction.
• Westerns: Spur Awards (PDF): Western winners.

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• The Apocalypse: For when you just need a book about the end of the world. These books show the underlying fears and concerns of the times in which they were written better than most history books.
• Sci-Fi Awards (PDF): Hugo and Nebula Award winners.

Literary Awards and Classics

• Nobel Prize for Literature 2008 (PDF): Current and previous Nobel Laureates.
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2009 (PDF): Current and previous Pulitzer-winning titles.
• Classics (PDF): Favorite fiction classics up to 1970.
• Modern Classics (PDF): Fiction classics from 1970 to today.

Made for the Movies

• Real to Reel (PDF): Biographies and true tales of adventure made into popular movies.
• Oscars 2010 & previous years (PDF): Before they were made into Oscars-nominated films, they were great novels and non-fiction books.

• Graphic Novel Series (PDF): Great Graphic Novel series for all age groups, available at libraries throughout Washington County.
• When Crime Pays (PDF): Hard-boiled Graphic Novel series and stand-alones.
• Horror (PDF): Frighteningly good Graphic Novel series and stand-alones.
• Nonfiction Comics for Adults (PDF): Biographies, news reporting, and enjoyable true stories, told in graphic novel form.

Lists updated January 2010.