Where to Find Book Lists
Sometimes the best recommendations come from the lists that readers put together.
Here is where you will find “best of” lists, book recommendations by theme or audience, and places you can search for your own ideas.
PAGE INDEX
- Book Search Sites
- General Reading Ideas & Lists
- Read Aloud Lists and Ideas
- Specialized Book Lists
- Wordless Books Lists
See also Booklists by Audience, Read Alikes by Audience, Booklists by Theme, and Books to Movies
General Reading Ideas & Lists
5 Star Reads 5 Minutes for Books (scroll down to see the children’s and young adult books)
80 Kids Books to Movie Adaptations by librarian Megan Daley @ Daley Reads
100 Notable Books Children’s Book Council of Australia
100 Titles for Reading and Sharing New York Public Library
The Best of the Best Kids Books – 2008 by Susan Thomsen @ Chicken Spaghetti
Book of the Week Cooperative Children’s Book Center
Booklights PBS Parents blog
Children’s Book Council Reading Lists Children’s Book Council
Children’s Literature Assembly Notable Books – organized by genre
Children’s Notables Lists American Library Association (ALSC)
Cybils Award Winners (Children’s Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards)
Getting Boys into Reading with Fiction by Trevor Cairney @ Literacy, Families and Learning
Getting Boys into reading with Nonfiction Material by Trevor Cairney @ Literacy, Families and Learning
On-Lion for Kids York Public Library by the New York PublicLibrary
Pragmatic Mom’s List of Lists (300+) by Mia Wenjen. Diverse books, sorted by theme and audience
ReadKiddoRead by James Patterson
Recommendations for Kids Indie Bound (scroll to the bottom to find previous kids’ lists)
Teachers Book Wizard by Scholastic, Inc.
Top 100 101 Picture Books Poll Results by Elizabeth Bird at A Fuse #8 Production
Unshelved Book Club – Book reviews written as a full-page, full-color comic strips
What Kids Who Don’t Like to Read Read(tm) – Parent’s Choice Foundation
YA (Young Adult) Reading Lists American Library Association (YALSA)
Book Search Sites
Africa Access offers a form to search its data bases for books on Africa. It has fields for all of the logical elements: audience age, subject, author, illustrator, etc.
Database of Award-Winning Books created by Lisa R. Bartle, searcheable by genre, age, award, et al.
Juvenile Series and Sequels database created by the Mid-Continent Public Library in Missouri
LibraryThing’s Book Suggester LibraryThing is a service that allows users to catalog their personal libraries. You can not only search for books that might interest you, but you can also exclude those that don’t.
WhatShouldIReadNext? lets you type in something you’ve read and liked to find something similar that other users read, loved, and recommend.
WhichBook lets you search for a book based on what you are in the mood for.
Read Aloud Ideas and Lists
Back-to-School Bonanza: Books for Reading Aloud by Curriculum Connections/School Library Journal
Out Loud: Books for 10-year-olds that Should Be Read Aloud by Patricia Springstubb @ From the Mixed Up Files
Preview from THE PIT Read Alouds (2009-2010) by Bill @ Literate Lives
Preview from THE PIT Read Alouds 2 (2009-2010) by Bill @ Literate Lives
Read Aloud America Booklist 2009
Thinking about 5th Grade Read Alouds by Karen Terlecky @ Choice Literacy
Funny Read Alouds (chapter books) by Erica @ What Do We Do All Day
Read Aloud Chapter Books for 8-11 (2nd-5th grade) year olds by Erica @ What Do We Do All Day
Chapter Books to Read to 4-6 Year Olds (This is my most popular list!) by Erica @ What Do We Do All Day
Chapter Books with an Old Fashioned Flair by Erica @ What Do We Do All Day
Books to Read During the Summer by Erica @ What Do We Do All Day
Chapter Books for 3 year olds and Preschoolers by Erica @ What Do We Do All Day
Great Audiobooks for Kids (chapter books) by Erica @ What Do We Do All Day
Lists of Wordless Books
Colorin Colorado – This list is an excerpt of a collection from Jim Trelease’s Read Aloud Handbook (5th edition)
ReadingAtoZ.com – There are more than 150 titles on this list, with lesson plans
Weber County (Utah) Public Library – This is an annotated list with their recommended wordless picture books
Specialized Book Lists
80 Kids Books to Movie Adaptations by librarian Megan Daley @ Daley Reads
ATN Book Lists – Built for Librarians and maintained by Nancy Keane. 2000+ lists
Booklists for Kids on the Autism Spectrum by Spectrum Mom
Booklist of Series Books created by Kidsreads.com
Caldecott Medal winners in Spanish Isabel Schon International Center at the San Diego Public Library
Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature Read Kutub Kids
Newbery Medal winners in Spanish Isabel Schon International Center at the San Diego Public Library
Your Arabic Library (ages 2 to 4) – Read Kutub Kids