Book selection
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Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11
What to read
Popular series fiction for K-6 readers
A measuring rod to test text books, and reference books in schools, colleges and libraries
Developing and promoting graphic novel collections
Selecting materials for libraries
A Book Is a Present
First selection of five hundred children's books
US Federal official publications
Book selection for school libraries
The best reading
The unreluctant years
National libraries and foreign scholarship
A guide for implementing accreditation standard 404.2, materials selection policy
Genreflecting
Acquisitions in Health Sciences Libraries
Biography and children
Book selection
How to read slowly
An evaluation of the fiction collections in the elementary school libraries of an Alberta school district
The multimedia library
Graphic novels in your media center
Living with books
The president, the professor, and the college library
Developing library and information center collections
Children's Book Corner
Censorship and selection
How to form a library
Book selection handbook for elementary and secondary school
A method of selecting foreign stories for the American elementary schools
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Book Explorer lets readers browse the free, readable part of the Open Library catalogue by familiar genres, or by the exact subject tags Open Library assigns each book. Every book has its own page with a reader where one is available, plus links to Open Library, your library, Libby and Amazon.
Fiction
- All Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Children's Fiction
- Mystery & Detective
- Romance
- Fantasy
- Thriller & Suspense
- Historical Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Graphic Novels & Comics
- Humor
- Short Stories
- Horror
- Young Adult Fiction
- Western
Non-fiction
- All Non-fiction
- History
- Biography & Memoir
- Religion & Spirituality
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Travel
- Philosophy
- Business & Economics
- Science
- Art & Photography
- Cooking
- Self-Help
- Music
- Health & Fitness
- Sports & Recreation
- Humor
- True Crime