Books & More:  Find your next favorite book!

Select Reads:  Allows you to generate booklists, book newsletters and recommendations based on what you like to read.  All of the Library's newsletters can be found here, too.  Including our monthly newsletter, the FOL Third Thursday Book Club newsletter, special event newsletters, and more!
New Book Alerts:   A free online service that showcases the newest titles purchased by your local library.  You can select to receive alerts via email and/or RSS feeds. If you see a new title that you are interested in, just click "check catalog" to place a hold on the item right away.

Author Check:  Track your favorite authors and get an alert when the Library receives a book by them!  Each time a title by that author is ordered for the Library's collection, you will received an email alert.  To get started, click on the icon and create your personal Authorcheck account - all that is needed is your name, email address and a password. 

Try our Online Book Clubs - new books to try and love.  Sign up for one, or several book clubs, depending on what you like to read. Immediately, you will receive a welcome message from us thanking them for joining.  The next morning, start receiving your daily "dose of book."  Choose from these book clubs:  Fiction, Romance, Good News, Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Pre-Publication, Classics, Audio Books, Teens, Nonfiction, Business, Authorbuzz, First Look

Our Read Alikes author and book lists are created by the Culpeper County Library staff and volunteers.  Features a growing list of read alike recommendations.

So, what is a "read alike"?  You can probably figure it out without a definition, but a read-alike is a book or series or another author that shares a commonality with another book or series or author that might appeal to the same reader. It could be a similar tone, setting, depth of characterization or type of plot, or even something else.

Books & Authors is a digital reader’s advisory resource, offering book suggestions from experts, information on specific book titles, author biographies and more. It offers access to more than 146,000 titles, and the list continually grows.

All books are recommended by librarians or other experts, are award winners or appear on bestseller lists. Over 40,000 nonfiction titles are included in business, biography, science and more. Fiction selections reflect the genres readers like best: mystery, science fiction, inspirational, romance, nonfiction, western, horror and fantasy. Check out the “read-a-like wizard”. 

 

 

Find a Good Book
  • Amazon
    • Online retailer of books, movies, music...and so much more.
  • Barnes & Noble
    • The world's largest bookseller.
  • Based on the Book
    • 'Based on the Book' is a compilation of over 1,450 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures.
  • Best Sellers - The New York Times
    • Based on weekly sales reports, lists are divided among fiction and non-fiction, print and eBook, paperback and hardcover.
  • Book Seer: What Should I Read Next?
    • Just finished reading a great book and wondering what to read next? Ask the famous bookseer.
  • BookHive (Children's books)
    • Your guide to children's literature and books.
  • BookPage
    • BookPage is a monthly book review publication distributed to 400,000 avid readers through subscribing bookstores and public libraries. The Culpeper County Library distributes a limited number of print copies monthly, thanks to the Friends of the Library.
  • Christian Book Expo
    • Find award winning and best selling faith-based books.
  • Current Virginia Authors
    • A selected list of current Virginia authors for the general reader. Compiled by Tom H. Ray, Collections Management Coordinator, Library of Virginia, January 2015
  • Friends of the Culpeper County Library Used Bookstore
    • Located inside the Culpeper County Library, adjacent to the Adult Reading Area.
  • Goodreads
    • Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations.
  • Guys Read (Children & Teen books)
    • This is the place to come if you’re looking for something to get a guy reading.
  • Literature Map
    • Literature Map is not only helpful, but it is a lot of fun to play with. Type in an author’s name and the website generates a web of other authors that have similar writing styles and genres.
  • NPR Books
    • Author interviews and book reviews, lists of books created by NPR editors and other authors. Includes original content by Nancy Pearl. If people in America are talking about a book or author, it will show up here.
  • Reader's Advisory Link Farm
    • Contains links to reading guides, read-alike lists, reviews, and much more.
  • Readers' Advisor Online
    • The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television.
  • Titles to Know and Recommend from EarlyWord
    • News for Collection Development and Readers Advisory Librarians.
  • Your Next Read
    • Your Next Read provides book recommendations in two ways, and you can sign up and create you own “Map” of books.
 
Find the Next Book in a Series
 
For Book Clubs
  • African American Literature Book Club
    • Started in 1997, AALBC.com (African American Literature Book Club) is the largest, most frequently visited web site of its kind.
  • Book Browse
    • How to find or start a book club; free reading guides, excerpts, reviews, etc.
  • Book Club Central
    • Book Club Central is an online resource for book clubs and readers featuring book reviews, author interviews, discussion questions and more. Award-winning actor, producer, and avid reader Sarah Jessica Parker is the Honorary Chair of Book Club Central. Ms. Parker will offer her own book selections as part of SJP Picks.
  • Create Your Own Reading Guides
    • Starting points for creating your own discussion questions.
  • FOL (Friends of the Library) Third Thursday Book Club Special Event Notification
    • Click here to subscribe to the FOL Third Thursday Book Club special event notification. Sponsored by the Friends of the Culpeper County Library.
  • FOL (Friends of the Library) Third Thursday Book Club...present and previously discussed books
    • A list of all books discussed by the FOL Third Thursday Book Club, 1997 to present.
  • Oprah's Book Club
    • Features all 74 official selections.
  • Oprah's Book Club 2.0
    • Oprah's Book Club 2.0 - a re-launch of the original Oprah's Book Club, which ran for 15 years and ended in 2011, but as the "2.0" name suggests, digital media is the new focus. It incorporates the use of various social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter) and e-readers that allow for the quoting and uploading of passages and notes for discussion, among other features.
  • Reader's Circle
    • A book club networking site serving the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with over 200,000 readers connected annually. Use to find a nearby book club or to start your own.
  • Reading Group Choices
    • Reading Group Choices selects discussible books and suggests discussion topics for reading groups.
  • Reading Group Guides
    • The online community for reading groups. Over 4,000 reading guides available!
  • World Book Club
    • World Book Club invites the globe's great authors to discuss their best known novel.