Massasoit Libraries: Need to Read: Find Your Book

Booklists

Some lists to get you started.

Books and Authors
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Information on 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists. Tutorial

NPR's Book Concierge
Use the filters to explore more than 300 titles NPR staff and critics loved this year. You can also combine filters! Years 2008-2018
Most Frequently Challenged Books by Decade
The Office of Intellectual Freedom receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books and compiles this information into lists in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools.

OverDrive (OCLN)
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Use your Old Colony Library Network card to access this collection of audio and eBooks that you can listen to or read on your computer or mobile device. Includes Kindle, ePub and PDF. More info

Most public libraries in Massachusetts have Overdrive. Visit your public library's website for more info. Find your public library

Search the library catalog for new titles.

20SomethingReads-Book Report Network

The Reading List

In February of 2016 an attorney in Virginia used her position to promote empathy and literacy in her community. The prosecutor recommended that the five young men who vandalized an historic black school house be sentenced to some book reading, a Holocaust Museum visit in D.C., and a conversation with an individual who attended the black school house as a child.

Teens behind racist graffiti sentenced to visit Holocaust Museum, read books by black and Jewish authors
Read the full story from the Washington Post.

The Complete Reading List
The complete list of books for students to read, as chosen by a judge in Virginia.