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Books & Reading
Award Winners & Best Sellers
Award winning books for adults, teens, and children.
Free Newsletters
Book reviews and recommendations delivered by e-mail!
New York Times Best Sellers
Book Clubs & Reading Groups
Club Book - bringing best-selling and award-winning national and regional authors to library communities throughout the seven-county metropolitan region.
Audio Books
- Books on Cassette
- Books on CD
- Downloadable Audio Books
- Playaway - self-playing digitial audiobooks.
New Fiction
Books in the Media
Non-Fiction Preview
Explore Books and Authors
Authors A-Z
Fascinating insights into the lives of thousands of authors and illustrators, including biographies, interviews and what inspires them to write.
Booked in Saint Paul
Suggestions from Saint Paul Public Library staff.
Books & Reading Web Sites
Sites to help you find, read about, and rate books and authors online.
Genre Fiction
Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Urban Lit.
Literature Resource Center
Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, writers, and their works.
Includes articles from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
- Access from home (requires a library card)
- Access at the library
LitFinder
Search poems, essays, speeches, stories, and plays.
Many of the citations include the full text of the items indexed.
- Access from home (requires a library card)
- Access at the library
Minnesota Reads
Blog that publishes book reviews by Minnesota readers and talks to Minnesotans about what they’re reading.
NoveList Plus
Find new authors and titles, based on what you already like to read.
You can also learn more about books and authors.
- Access from home (requires a library card)
- Access at the library
NoveList K-8 Plus
Find award-winners, recommended reads, author biographies, and more!
Includes books for younger kids (ages 0-8), older kids (9-12) and teens (13-18).
- Access from home (requires a library card)
- Access at the library
Poetry
Poems and poets.
WorldCat
Find books, music, videos, articles, and more in libraries near you and across the country.
Search WorldCat.org or...
- Access the WorldCat library interface from home (requires a library card)
- Access WorldCat at the library
Minnesota Books and Authors
Minnesota Authors Biography Project
Biographical sketches and bibliographies of Minnesota authors.
Minnesota Children's Authors & Illustrators
A list of Minnesota's own plus a printable (pdf) version.
Minnesota Fiction Authors
A list of Minnesota fiction authors, with links to their works in the Saint Paul Public Library's catalog.
Set in the Twin Cities (PDF)
Books set in the Twin Cities and Minnesota.
