NoveList™  

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What is it?

NoveList™ is an online guide to fiction for readers of all ages. This database of over 300,000 fiction titles lets you use your favorite authors to link to other books you might enjoy. Search for a specific title, author, series, or subject or browse reading lists, author-read-alikes, award winners, book discussion guides and more!  Note: The NoveList database is linked to our Library Catalog, but it does display results which may not be available in Arlington.

How Does it Work?

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Uuse the Basic Search box at the top of each page to search for a title, author, series, or topic. When you use the default All radio button, NoveList will search for your terms in the full text of all NoveList content, including annotations, reviews, and proprietary content (articles or lists).

Get a more focused search by selecting the Author, Title or Series radio buttons. Browsable lists of recommendations for similar books and authors will be shown on the search result pages - to help find more titles of interest.

NoveList™ contains entries for many thousands of fiction titles published. Be sure to click "Check the Arlington Public Library Catalog" to verify the book's availability.

Print, Email  or Save
Enter your search terms using the Basic Search box, or the Advanced Search.  
From your Result List, you may email, print or save to disk. Or save to your own NoveList folder. To Bookmark or Share a title, click this icon for options.  Watch video tutorial on how to customize the display for printing.

 Where do I go to find it?

From the library website, click Research a Topic / All Premium Sites / NoveList

• Hundreds of hand-crafted "Recommended Reads" reading lists for adults, teens and kids covering both fiction genres and topics.
• More than 500 Book Discussion Guides including questions and answers and suggestions for further reading.
• Hundreds of searchable Award Lists, Feature Articles, and BookTalks on a wide variety of genres, topics and reading levels
• Personalized reading lists you create

NoveList™ suggestions appearing in the Library Catalog

When searching a title in the Library Catalog, click the individual title record to see the NoveList™ suggestions, These appear below the list of Library holdings by branch. Depending on the title you enter, you will see: Similar Titles, Similar Authors, and/or Titles in Series.

Some titles will also show:

• Title Read-alikes
• Author read-a-likes
• Recommended Reads
• Readers' Advisory
• Discussion Guides
• Book Discussion
• Feature Articles
• Award Winners

If available, links displayed for reviews at Goodreads, a popular site for readers to catalog their books and share information about them.

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• You have an Arlington Public Library Card and you have a PIN 
• Your account is not expired and your account is free of excessive fines and fees
• To type "2020" as the first digits of your card number
• To enter a username exactly as you set it.

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