Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Shelfari Recommends Books & Series for 2010

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Don’t miss these popular books and series!

Can you believe it’s already March? Three months into 2010 and we hope you’re on track for reaching your reading goals. If you need a little inspiration, check out these books and series.

Popular Books

Catching Fire

If you like Ender’s Game or the Harry Potter series, you might also like:

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire is the second book in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy. It is the sequel to the 2008 bestseller, The Hunger Games, continuing the story of Katniss Everdeen and the fictional futuristic nation of Panem.

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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

If you like The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, you might also like:

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, here is a portrait of a young girl ? and society’s ideas of race, class, and beauty. It is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction …

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The Help

If you like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, you might also like:

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be …

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To Kill a Mockingbird

If you like Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, you might also like:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee introduces many diverse characters that help tell the story of racism and its domino effects: Scout, the main character, is 9 years old and struggles with understanding racism and …

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Horns

If you like books by Stephen King and Charlie Huston, you might also like:

Horns by Joe Hill

Ignatius William Perrish wakes up bleary and confused after a night of drinking and “doing terrible things” to find he has grown horns. In addition to being horribly unsightly, these inflamed protuberances give Ig an equally …

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Popular Series

Use the new Your Series link on your home page to discover new books in your favorite series, or check out these popular series you might not know about.

The Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld

This Sci-Fi fantasy series follows the adventures of “Midnighter” Jessica Day, by the author of The Uglies, Peeps and more.

Kane & Abel by Jeffrey Archer

Kane & Abel have little in common except their birthday and ruthless drive to succeed in this excellent example of Jeffrey Archer's storytelling ability.

Aurora Teagarden by Charlaine Harris

Join this petite librarian as she investigates and unravels unusual crimes in her small Georgia community.

House of Night by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

A spellbinding series about Zoey Redbird and her journey become a full-fledged vampyre by the well-known mother-daughter duo.

Tommy and Tuppence by Agatha Christie

Husband and wife team starts out as blackmailers and ended up as detectives in this series by the famous author or Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and other classic mystery series.

The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe

Focusing on the themes of personal and moral struggle within the context of colonization in Nigeria, this trilogy is one of the most well known in African literature.

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Browse popular books in your favorite subject. Click Subjects from the Books tab to find anything from Birdwatching to Vampire Romance, from Paleoclimatology to Limericks & Humorous Verse.

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