GoodReads Book Awards

GoodReads, is the largest website for readers and book recommendations around the world. The membership is over 6,500,000! Members use the website to track what they are reading, share recommendations and find others who have similar tastes. An excellent site for book discussions and chatting too. Since it's conception in 2007, it continues to grow each year and instituted it's own "book awards" in 2009. GoodReads 3rd Annual Book Award Winners have been annouced, and can be found here!

We know you'll find something new and interesting to read!

-EWML Reference Department

And the Winner Is...

The National Book Awards annouced their winners last week. The results are in and as follows:

FICTION: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA)

NONFICTION: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
(W. W. Norton & Company)

POETRY: Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split
(TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE: Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again
(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

To check our catalog for these titles, click here!

Give the Gift of Books this Holiday Season!

The holidays are just around the corner, and what better gift to give (and we think, receive) than a book? From coffee table eye candy to the latest thriller, or a decadent compliation of recipes for the favorite cook in your life-books offer the one option that most other gifts cannot. There is truly a book for every reader-something for everybody.

But, before you make that trip to the big book store or your local hometown bookseller, (you can almost smell the steaming lattes right now, we're guessing...) check out some of these links that sport the latest and the greatest in holiday book giving!

Books Are Great Gifts

New York Times Best Seller List

Trending Books from Barnes and Noble

RJ Julia Holiday Book List

Local Monroe Children's Bookstore Linda's Storytime Staff Picks

And don't forget, you can always visit EWML for a sneak preview of something BEFORE you buy!

2011 National Book Awards, The National Book Foundation

Established in 1950, the National Book Foundation, is an organization of publishers, editors, writers and critics who recognize literary excellence in the form of yearly book awards in four categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature. If you are looking for something new to read, or perhaps even as a gift for the holidays, try one of these National Book Award Finalists:

2011 National Book Awards, The National Book Foundation