Reading Ideas

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For more, search for books using Fiction AND Genre as a subject
- For example: Fiction AND Crime, Fiction AND Mystery, Fiction AND Historical.
See some of our 1,800+ fiction books by logging into this book search, then, in the left column under Library Location, click Circulating to find print books.

NONFICTION: Learn Something New

How to diagnose and fix everything electronic by Geier, Michael Jay.
Call Number: TK7870.2 .G43 2011
ISBN: 0071744223
Homemade soda by Schloss, Andrew
Call Number: TP630 .S35 2011
ISBN: 1603427961
Adobe Photoshop CS5 by Wooldridge, Mike.
Call Number: TR267.5.A3 W67 2010
ISBN: 0470612630
Grill it! : secrets to delicious flame-kissed food
Call Number: TX840.B3 G74 2011
ISBN: 0470932775
The first 20 minutes: surprising science reveals how we can exercise better, train smarter, live longer by Reynolds, Gretchen.
Call Number: GV481 .R49 2012
ISBN: 1594630933
Ultimate field guide to photography by Martin, Bob
Call Number: TR146 .U54 2009
ISBN: 1426204310
Digital photography masterclass / 2008 TR267 .A53 2008 by Ang, Tom.
Call Number: TR267 .A53 2008
ISBN: 0756636728

FICTION: Crime, Mystery, and Thriller

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Call Number: PR6108.A963 G57 2016
ISBN: 9781594634024
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Call Number: PS3606.L935 G66 2014
ISBN: 9780307588371

NONFICTION: More Interesting Topics

Enemies : a history of the FBI by Weiner, Tim.
Call Number: HV8144.F43 W45 2012
ISBN: 1400067480
Design in Nature by Adrian Bejan; J. Peder Zane
Call Number: Q 172.5.C45 B45 2012
ISBN: 0385534612
Sweet invention: a history of dessert by Krondl, Michael.
Call Number: TX773 .K7154 2011
ISBN: 1556529546
Final Jeopardy: man vs. machine and the quest to know everything by Baker, Stephen
Call Number: QA76.9.N38 B35 2011
ISBN: 0547483163
1001 Inventions: the enduring legacy of Muslim civilization by Al-Hassani, Salim T. S.
Call Number: BP190.5.S3 A15 2012
ISBN: 1426209347

Graphic Novels

Persepolis by Satrapi, Marjane,
Call Number: PN6747.S245 P4713 2003
ISBN: 037571457X

Classic Literature

Moby-Dick in Pictures by Matt Kish
Call Number: PS2384.M62 K57 2011
ISBN: 1935639137
The new annotated Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan
Call Number: PR 4621 .K55 2005
ISBN: 0393059162
Adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan
Call Number: Ebook PR4622 .A7 2001eb
ISBN: 1901843653
This is the electronic version. You can read it on the screen or download to a device.

Things That Make you Say Hmmm...

The happiness of pursuit: what neuroscience can teach us about the good life by Edelman, Shimon.
Call Number: BF441 .E234 2012
ISBN: 0465022243
Strength in what remains by Kidder, Tracy.
Call Number: E184.B89 K53 2009
ISBN: 1400066212
Concrete planet : the strange and fascinating story of the world’s most common man-made material by Courland, Robert,
Call Number: TA439 .C588 2011
ISBN: 1616144815
The social conquest of earth by Wilson, Edward O.
Call Number: GN360 .W53 2012
ISBN: 0871404133
The optimism bias : a tour of the irrationally positive brain by Sharot, Tali.
Call Number: QP360 .S466 2011
ISBN: 0307378489

Recommendations from Joyce Miller

Reference and Instruction Librarian Joyce Miller read and liked these books at the SUNY Adirondack Library. Here's her list on LibraryThing:

Joyce's LibraryThing Book List

FICTION: Short Story Collections

The Year's Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois (Editor)
Call Number: PS648.S3 Y4 2016
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature by Ilan Stavans; Edna Acosta-Belén (Editor); Harold Augenbraum (Editor); Maria Herrera-Sobek (Editor); Rolando Hinojosa (Editor); Gustavo Peacute;rez-Firmat (Editor)
Call Number: PS508.H57 N65 2011
Double-Take by Venetria K. Patton (Editor); Maureen Honey (Editor)
Call Number: PS509.N4 D68 2001
Different Seasons by Stephen King
Call Number: PS3561.I483 D5 2016
Corporeality by Hollis Seamon
Call Number: PS3569.E1755 C67 2013

Books on CD

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Larsson, Stieg
Call Number: AudioBook PT9876.22.A6933 M3613 2008
ISBN: 0307577589

These books are read cover-to-cover on CD - stop by the library to get them! They're interfiled with the circulating books.

Dress your family in corduroy and denim by Sedaris, David.
Call Number: AudioBook PS3569.E314 D74 2004
ISBN: 1586215027
Me talk pretty one day by Sedaris, David.
Call Number: Audiobook PS3569.E314 M4 2001 Vol.2
ISBN: 1586210661
"Includes live bonus tracks"

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