Award-Winning Books and Videos

American Library Association National Awards

• The Caldecott Medal -- Beautifully illustrated pictures books for children.
• The Newbery Medal -- The most distinguished examples of children's literature in America.
• The Printz Award -- Awarded for excellence in young adult literature.
• The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video -- Honoring outstanding video productions for children.
• The Coretta Scott King Award -- Awarded to outstanding African American authors and illustrators.
• The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal -- Authors who have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
• The Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature For Young Adults -- For lifetime achievement in writing for teenagers.

Missouri Awards

• Gateway Readers Award -- Missouri high school students choose their favorite books written for teens.
• The Mark Twain Award -- Missouri school children in grades 4-8 vote on their favorite book.
• The Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award -- Missouri preschoolers and kindergartners vote on their favorite read-aloud books.
• The Show-Me Readers Award -- Missouri school children in grades 1-3 vote on their favorite book.
• Truman Readers Award -- Missouri middle school/junior high students vote for their favorite book from a list of nominated titles.

Children's Book and Material Lists

• Books, CDs, DVDs & More for Kids
• Books, CDs, DVDs & More for Grownups

Young Adults/Teens Book and Material Lists

• TeenThing Booklists

Adult Book and Material Lists

Featured List

• ALA's Top 30 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009

Audiobooks

• 2009 Audie Award Winners
  
• 2010 Audie Award Winners & Finalists
  
• AudioFile Golden Voice Award Winners
  

Christian Fiction

• African-American Christian Fiction
  
• American Sagas
  
• Amish and Mennonite Fiction
  
• Apocalyptic Fiction
  
• Centered Around Christmas
  
• Christian Mysteries and Detective Stories
  
• Contemporary Romance
  
• European Sagas
  
• Featuring Biblical Characters
  
• If You Liked, "The Shack", You Might Like...
  
• Science Fiction
  
• Suspense
  
• Thrillers
  
• Westerns
  

Fantasy

• Dragons, Giants, and Other Magical Creatures
  
• Epic Fantasy for Tolkien Fans
  
• Fairy Tales for Adults
  
• Fairytales, Folktales, Myths and Legends
  
• Fantastic Females: Fantasy fiction with strong female characters
  
• Fantasy Classics
  
• Funny Fantasy
  
• Good Fantasy Fiction
  
• High Fantasy: Swords, Sorcery, and Magical Quests
  
• Tales of Talking Animals
  
• Tales of the Round Table: King Arthur and His Knights
  
• Through the Looking-Glass: Travel to Fantasy Worlds
  
• What If...Alternative Histories
  

Fiction

• Academy Award Winners-Best Picture
  
• Action is the Name of the Game
  
• African American Fiction: Classic
  
• African American Fiction: Contemporary
  
• Ancient Egypt
  
• Ancient Greece
  
• Bite into Books
  
• Chatting up the Books
  
• Chick Lit : When You are in the Mood for Fluff
  
• Christmas Stories
  
• Civil War
  
• Colonial America & the Revolutionary War
  
• Contemporary Southern Voices
  
• Curl up with a Comedy!
  
• Desperate Housewives
  
• Did You Know They Could Write Too? Books by Celebrities
  
• Dog Lover's Mysteries
  
• Espionage
  
• Family Sagas (courtesy of Novelist)
  
• Fiction About Art and Artists
  
• From the Page to the Screen - Books that have become films
  
• GLBT
  
• If you like James Patterson, you might like...
  
• If you like Jane Austen...Sequels to Austen's works
  
• If you like Tom Clancy, you might like...
  
• If you liked "Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons", You Might Like...
  
• If you liked "Memoirs of a Geisha", You Might Like...
  
• If you liked "The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time", You Might Like...
  
• If you liked "The Help", you might like...
  
• If you liked "The Kite Runner", You Might Like...
  
• If you liked "The Lovely Bones", You Might Like...
  
• If you liked "The Time Traveler's Wife", You Might Like...
  
• If you liked "To Kill a Mockingbird," you might like...
  
• If You Liked The Da Vinci Code...
  
• If you liked THE PASSAGE by Justin Cronin
  
• Indulge Your Sense of Humor
  
• Inspiration for Slumdog Millionaire
  
• Legal Thrillers
  
• Lesser-known Works by Well-Known Writers
  
• Library Station; July's Featured Author - Michael Crichton...read-a-likes
  
• LOST! Quoted Books (want more LOST? attend our LOST in the Library Program)
  
• LOST! Sawyer's Booklist (want more LOST? attend our LOST in the Library Program)
  
• M.D. or Medical Death
  
• Many Manly Men Doing Manly Things
  
• Middle Ages
  
• Native American Authors
  
• New York Times Fiction Bestsellers
  
• Political Thrillers
  
• Read Like a Kid Again
  
• Read Up On Down Under
  
• Renaissance Europe
  
• Sea Stories
  
• Sports Fiction: Baseball
  
• Sports Fiction: Basketball, Hockey, Golf, and More
  
• Sports Fiction: Football
  
• Steampunk
  
• Stories of the Navy SEALs
  
• Suspense/Thrillers
  
• Tall Tales / Flights of Fancy
  
• Terminal Illnesses, Death, and Mourning
  
• These make you laugh
  
• Travel To...
  
• Urban Lit
  
• Warm Weather Reading
  
• World War II
  

Horror

• Back from the Dead: Mummies and Other Creepy Creatures
  
• Classic Tales of Terror
  
• Horror Stories
  
• I like My Horror With a Side of Humor
  
• If You Like "Twilight", You Might Like...
  
• If you liked the ultra-violent zombie mayhem of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," you might enjoy..
  
• Killer Animals
  
• Mythological Creatures
  
• Psychological Horror
  
• Scary Science: Robots, Aliens, Mad Scientists, and Experiments Gone Wrong
  
• Supernatural Scares: Witches, Demons, and Possession
  
• Things That Go Bump in the Night
  
• Vampire Fiction
  
• Werewolf Fiction
  
• Zombies Attack!
  

Mystery

• Booklist's Best Crime Novel Debuts
  
• Booklist's Best Crime Novels of the Year
  
• Cooking Up Crime
  
• Cozy Mysteries
  
• Crime Fighting Couples
  
• Culinary Crimes
  
• English Mysteries
  
• Forensic Mysteries
  
• Gardens and Gumshoes Galore
  
• Hilarious Homicides
  
• Historical Mysteries
  
• Medical Mysteries
  
• Museums and Mysteries
  
• Mysteries by African American Authors
  
• Saintly Sleuths
  
• Scandinavian Mysteries
  
• Sisterhood of Senior Sleuths
  
• Spunky Women Sleuths
  
• Women of Mystery
  

Romance

• Classic Romance
  
• Contemporary Romance
  
• Fangs for the Laughs: Humorous Paranormal Romance
  
• Feel the Heat -- Romance in the Tropics
  
• Gentle Romances
  
• Gothic Romance
  
• Historical Romance
  
• If You Liked Bridget Jones' Diary, Try These Authors
  
• Love in the Old West
  
• Only a Summer Love
  
• Regency Romance Authors
  
• Romance by African American Authors
  
• Romantic Suspense
  
• Scottish and Irish Romances
  
• The RITA Awards: The Romance Writers of America Pick the Best Romances of 2007
  
• The RITA Awards: The Romance Writers of America Pick the Best Romances of 2008
  
• The RITA Awards: The Romance Writers of America Pick the Best Romances of 2009
  
• Time Travel Romance
  
• Vampire Romance
  
• Vintage Love Stories
  
• Werewolf Romance
  

Science Fiction

• 2008 Hugo Award Recommendations
  
• 2009 Hugo Award Recommendations
  
• 2010 Hugo Award Recommendations
  
• After the End
  
• Cyberpunk
  
• Dystopian Days
  
• Explorers in Spaceships
  
• First Contact - Colonialism Beyond Eearth's Boundaries
  
• Incendiary Sci-Fi: Controversial Science Fiction Titles
  
• Military and Space Battles
  
• Real Good Science Fiction
  
• Science Fiction Classics
  
• Space Operas
  
• Women in Space: Science Fiction By or About Women
  

Westerns

• Cowboys and Indians: Settlers and Native Americans in the West
  
• Don't Mess With Texas
  
• If You Like Louis L'Amour
  
• Move 'em out! Cattle Drives in Western Fiction
  
• The Best Western Novels from The Western Writers of America
  
• The Iron Horse Rides West - Railroads in Western Fiction
  
• The Women of the West
  

Nonfiction

• A Year in the Life of...
  
• Adventures and Misadventures in the Outdoors
  
• Alzheimer's -- Learning and Coping
  
• American Civil War
  
• Astronomy
  
• Book Group Helps
  
• Books that Changed the World
  
• Bullying
  
• Business Plans
  
• Card Making
  
• Childhood Memoirs
  
• Christmas Crafts, Decorations, and Recipes
  
• Christmas Is . . .
  
• Classical History Booklist: From Greece to Rome and Everything in Between
  
• Conflict and Culture: The History of the Middle East
  
• Cooking for the Holidays
  
• Crocheting -- New Books for a Crafting Renaissance
  
• CSI Fans
  
• Culinary Literature
  
• Destination Wedding Planning
  
• Digital Photography
  
• Digital Scrapbooking
  
• Elizabeth I: A True Renaissance Woman
  
• Getting Your Hands Dirty in the Garden
  
• Grass Roots Solutions: Peace From the Ground Up
  
• Great Women in History
  
• Green Living
  
• Hand Weaving
  
• History of the American Revolution
  
• Home-Based Business
  
• Hot Nonfiction for those Hot Summer Days - 2010
  
• Ideas for Valentine's Day
  
• In Honor of Our Mothers
  
• Inspirational Reading
  
• Interior Design
  
• Journey Back In Time
  
• Keeping the Peace at Work
  
• Knitting as Craft -- Knitting as Philosophy
  
• More than Knights, Ladies, and Chivalry: The History of The Middle Ages
  
• Mummies, Pyramids, Gods and Goddesses: The Secrets of Ancient Egypt
  
• New Year's Resolutions
  
• New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers
  
• Peace
  
• Quilting
  
• Read a Banned Book! Banned Books Week is September 25- October 2,
  
• Real Sports Stories
  
• Recession Survival Guide
  
• Remembering 9/11
  
• Science of Water (Technical Works)
  
• Scrapbooking - Books from Creating Keepsakes & Simple Scrapbooks
  
• Scrapbooking - Books from Memory Makers
  
• Scrapbooking - Organization & Idea Books
  
• Scrapbooking DVDs
  
• Sizzling Science Reads for Summer
  
• St. Louis Cardinals: Past and Present
  
• Tales of Travel
  
• The Best Western Nonfiction from The Western Writers of America
  
• The History of the Great Depression
  
• The History of the Holocaust
  
• The History of World War II
  
• The Search: Books about Personal Pilgrimages
  
• The Social Context of Modern Egypt
  
• True Crime
  
• Wedding Planning? These Books Might Help!
  
• Wilderness Survival Skills
  
• Women and Violence
  

Missouri Authors

• Missouri Writes For Kids -- A list of Missouri authors and the books they've written.
• Missouri Author's Directory -- A project of the Missouri Center for the Book.

NextReads Archives

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