Readiscovery

Readiscovery contains links to sites, which will help with your enjoyment of reading.

You can see shortlists and longlists for book prizes, television and radio programmes as well as our online catalogue.

Latest news 

• The Man Booker Prize - announce their 2008 longlist
• Best of the Booker - Salman Rushdie's Midnight's was voted "Best of the Booker" which marks the 40th anniversary of the prize
• Richard and Judy Book Club - announce their Summer Read 2008 titles
• Orange Broadband - announces Rose Tremain 2008 winner
• Melissa Nathan Awards announces Comedy Romance 2008 shortlist
• Galaxy British Book awards - announces 2008 winners
• Romantic novel of the year award announces Freya North as 2008 winner

BBC Read and Write campaign part of our national library programme

Prizes  

• Aventis prize for science books
• Boardman Tasker Prize 
• British Book awards
• Christchurch City Libraries Literary Prizes & Awards
• Costa Book awards
• Debut Dagger awards
• Forward Poetry Prize
• Guardian First Book Award
• Impac Dublin Literary Award
• The Man Booker Prize  
• Orange Broadband Prize
• Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction 
• William Hill sports book of the year

Best sellers

• Amazon.co.uk Hot 100 Books

National Year of Reading

• Suffolk Celebrates National Year of Reading - Activities and events in Suffolk libraries and Record Offices
• We recommend - Read the Game, Suffolk libraries recommend reading lists for August
• We recommend - Rhythm and Rhyme, Suffolk libraries recommend reading lists for July
• We recommend - Reading Escapes, Suffolk libraries recommend reading lists for June

Information on previous months can be found on our National Year of Reading - Monthly themes page.

TV and radio programmes

• BBC Radio 4 Open Book  - Spotlights new fiction and non-fiction,picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers
• BBC Radio Five Live - Book of the month - Each month it will highlight a book, by an unknown or lesser known author writing in the UK.
• Richard and Judy Book Club - check out the titles included in Summer Read 2008

What should I read next?

• Ask Chris 
• Fantastic Fiction
• Lovereading.co.uk  
• Whichbook.net 

Book clubs

• Reading group guides 
• Branching Out
• Bloomsbury Reading Club
• The Penguin Readers' Group
• Reading groups advice 
• Reading group book list (PDF, 83Kb)  A list of recommended titles for reading groups to borrow from Suffolk libraries.
• Bookgroup.info
• Booklists 
• Meet the author - Published writers talk about themselves, their books, their inspirations, their
  dreams, their passions.
• Metacritic Books

Most popular authors in libraries

• Top 100 authors - Details of the current most borrowed authors.
• Vintage Future Classics - Libraries around the UK have helped select fifteen books that will still be read in 100 years time - 15 'Modern Classics'

Newspaper book pages

• Guardian
• Independent  
• Times online
• Telegraph

Poetry

• Poetry Archive - is an online collection of recordings of poets reading their work
• The poetry book society - was founded by T S Eliot in 1953 and provides information for anyone who enjoys poetry, dedicated readers, occasional browsers and absolute beginners. 
• Poetry Society - aims are to promote the study,use and enjoyment of poetry

 

• We welcome suggestions - Suggest a title we haven't got in Suffolk libraries

Find out what books are available in Suffolk libraries by checking the online catalogue