Thursday, September 06, 2012

Book Hunters

At the Harris County Public Library we have been participating in a Book Hunters program for a couple years now. It is great fun trying to match titles to readers tastes.

Readers fill out a detailed interest form and provide a few authors and titles that they like. For example one customer liked fantasy fiction, historic fantasy fiction, and well written history. She said that she likes trilogies and series and these are her favorite authors: Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, Robin Hobbs, and David Eddings.

Here are a some of the titles suggested to her:

Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Blackout by Connie Willis

Shadowmarch by Tad Williams

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Cold Magic by Kate Elliott

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Well of Darkness by Margaret Weis