Book Lists & Author Readalikes

Looking for a good book? To help you find the next great read, staff members from the Park Ridge Public Library have created book lists and author readalikes.

Browse all of Library's fiction book lists or follow Reader Services staff picks from the new catalog.

Book Lists

Fiction

• 2009 Award Winners
• Appeal Factor - Character
• Appeal Factor - Setting
• Appeal Factor - Story
• Beyond Bridget Jones: Chick Lit Novels
• Books for fans of Video Games
• Books Made into Oscar Award Winning Movies
• Classics from the Evening Book Discussion (2011) 
• Classics from the Evening Book Discussion (2012)  
• Coming-of-Age Novels
• Crime Solving Dynamic Duos
• Culinary Crimes
• Detecting Dames
• Edible Fiction: Books with Food
• Essential Graphic Novels
• Fantasy (for people who don't read fantasy)
• Fiction for Fans of Mad Men
• Fifteen Offbeat Reads for Christmas
• First They Were Books: Recent Movies & TV Shows
• Historical Novels
• Horror Fiction: The Undead!
• Issue-Driven Women's Fiction 
• Libraries & Librarians
• Popular British Women's Fiction
• Post-Apocalyptic Literature
• Royal Families
• Short Story Collections You Shouldn't Miss
• Spring Fiction
• Steampunk
• Stories from the Sea
• Sweet Home Chicago
• Those Violent Victorians
• Women in Business Recommended Reads
• Wrinkles in Time: Time Travel
• Young Adult/ Adult Crossovers

Non-Fiction

• Graphic Novel Memoirs

Author Readalikes

• If you like Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
• If you like Stieg Larsson's series
• If you like George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones
• If you like Nicholas Sparks
• Jane Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series
• If you like Kathryn Stockett's The Help