Passively Recommending Books

  Crime fiction includes mysteries, thrillers, suspense, and spy novels. All of these have many subgenres and can easily be their own list or display. Remember that readers who enjoy one often will cross over to read another. If you check out the bibliographic record of some crime fiction titles, you will often see mystery, thriller, and suspense listed as genres.  Again, as with the previous posts, I am going to try to not repeat resources. Keep in mind, many of these resources have information about multiple genres. If you have suggestions, let me know! Crime Reads is run by Literary Hub and focuses on crime fiction and non-fiction. There are a lot of lists, read likes, interviews, and news about upcoming releases. Beyond fiction, they cover TV, movies, and true crime.  One annoying thing is that those who eschew other genres will promote crime fiction, even those who believe themselves to read only "serious" literature. Setting aside the snobbery and incorrect attitude ab

  Romance is in the air - and on the blog! As before, I am going to try to not repeat any of resources I listed before. Note that you can use many of them for a variety of genres.  There are so many romance book blogs! I will list a few here but if you are a fan or have a huge patron base for them, you might want to spend time searching for them.  Harlequin is one of the publishers even those who are unfamiliar with romance know. One of the most useful things on their site is what they call " favorite romance storylines " or what other people call tropes. They also talk about " miniseries " on their site which allow " readers to return to the same town, family or cast of characters to fall in love again and again!" There are non-Harlequin authors who do this. It would be a fun way to market your series fiction - call them a miniseries.  Smart Bitches, Trashy Books has been around for a long time. It includes a blog, book reviews, book suggestions, and a p

  We all have to provide readers advisory for genres we don't read. I have not yet found the high fantasy series that really draws me in. Everyone has those books they can't get into. There is nothing wrong with that - just don't make a big show of how much you don't like reading it.  Here are some sources for news and ideas about fantasy. Science fiction and fantasy are often grouped together so check the post about science fiction for more ideas. The posts about other genres may also have resources you can use for fantasy, you check them out.  For a primer on fantasy subgenres, try this article on The Portalist. Other sites like Book Riot also have them. Searching for any of the subgenres will pull up a lot of ideas you can use.  Goodreads has a page devoted to various genres. They include the most popular books from that genre as well as links to subgenres and related genres. Their fantasy page has new releases, videos, lists, giveaways, and tags that are relate

I will be presenting on readers advisory on the following dates in 2024. If you are interested in having me speak to your library staff about passive readers advisory, book displays, or collection development, please contact me at lila [dot] denning [at]gmail [dot] com. PCI Webinars An Introduction to Passive Readers Advisory Tuesday, March 12 at 10:30 am for Florida libraries Wednesday, March 13 at 2 pm Marketing Your Collection, Services, and Programs with Better Book Displays Thursday, April 18th at 2:00 pm EST  Wednesday, June 5th at 2:00 pm  Past Presentations Love is Always in the Air - Using Book Displays/Passive Readers Advisory to Market your Romance Collection All Year Using Passive Readers’ Advisory to Market Your Colle ctio n Engaging Patrons with Book Displays Inclusive Readers Advisory for Any Library Worker Not Just In October - Bring More Horror To Your Book Displays

This is the first of some genre-focused posts. Rather than start with genres I know more about (romance and horror) I thought I would do the harder ones first so we are jumping off with science fiction. There is science fiction content on my post about general book content so check those sites as well if you are looking for science fiction book news.  Whether right or wrong, the worlds of science fiction and gaming seem to have an affiliation so I've included some gaming sites with book related content.  Also, if you have suggestions here, please let me know! The Portalist : A site run by Open Road Media (which operates other genre-focused sites like The Lineup ) focused on science fiction and fantasy. The focus is on backlist titles. There are a lot of articles with read-alikes and lists based upon a theme such as " Must Read Space Opera Books ." They also cover movies and TV shows along with weird news that will appeal to fans of the genre.  Book Riot has science fictio

Listed below are some sites where you can find information about books in general including lists, reviews, and feature articles. There is content on most of them about the various genres of fiction as well so keep that in mind. Obviously, I haven't listed all sites imaginable but let me know if there is a great one I missed! My suspicion is that I will need to make a part two of this! Barnes & Noble may seem like an odd choice but their blog has great ideas you can use to market your library's collection. Book Riot has podcasts, feature articles, newsletters and more. It's definitely a site many avid readers are using for information. Entertainment Weekly has book reviews  as well as book news and lists. You can also curate a book display by looking at what is popular in other areas of entertainment. "Books to read if you love [popular television show]" as an example.  Esquire has book content including lists, interviews,  and best of the year content for g

  I presented about passive readers advisory for Florida Library Webinars. Below you will find  a list of the websites I mentioned. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out! I will post the slides as soon as possible.   Romance Writers of America- Definition of Romance Beverly Jenkins' interview with Shondaland Brenda Jackson interview   The Ripped Bodice State of Racial Diversity in Romance Publishing RA For All Sonali Dev interview on ContemporaryRomance.org Gibson's Bookstore , Concord, NH Zodiac Bookmark examples on LibrarianDesignShare.org Goodreads Romance Novels with Astrology Signs in the Titles Romance Novels based upon your zodiac sign Sexy books to read based upon your zodiac sign Which Bridgerton character are you based upon your Zodiac sign? from OprahDaily.com Blind Date With a Book Tips and Tricks from DisruptiveLibrarian.com Blind Date With a Book from ProgrammingLibrarian.org A Guide to Romance Abbreviations and Terms Romance Glossa