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Based on your form responses, we have created this reading list just for you. Please let us know how we did so we can improve future suggestions.
Happy Reading! - Melissa, Readers' Advisory Librarian |
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In the Personalized Reading Recommendation Form, we asked you for specific titles you liked and didn't like. Any authors you mentioned enjoying or authors you didn't like help us identify what appeals to you in the books you read. Our NoveList database uses these appeals to help us identify and recommend new titles for you to try.
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Appeals for Books and Authors You Enjoyed: |
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Finder by Marilyn Green (Not listed in NoveList) Russel Hoban (author)
Storyline: Intricately Plotted; Unconventional Mood: Offbeat Style: Witty; Character Driven; Lyrical Characterization: Unlikeable; Flawed; Complex Pace: Fast-paced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey The Tanners by Robert Walser(?) |
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While Middlemarch had some of the traits you look for in books you enjoy it wasn't quite the right mix for you. While you do enjoy intricately plotted novels, you seem to gravitate towards books that are more witty in style and have a bit faster pace. Books with the following appeals will be the most enjoyable to you:
Storyline: Intricately Plotted or Uncoventional Mood: Offbeat (almost all your favorites had an offbeat mood.) Style: Witty (almost all of your favorites had a witty style) |
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What you are in the mood to read next: |
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In the form you said you wanted "something that includes a lot of information search methods (not a detective story). Maybe a character that is neuro-divergent?" You also said you wanted fiction.
You also mentioned that you enjoyed, "Stories that are pseudo-detective--not myster/thriller/suspense/detective, but in which individuals seek information and the methods they choose."
I used those statements for the following recommendations. Hopefully, I interpreted your request correctly. If I did not, please feel free to email me with more details, \telling me where I went wrong.
Melissa Wheelock
Reader's Advisory Librarian Kokomo-Howard County Public Library mwheelock@khcpl.org
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Here Are Your Suggestions | |
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| Jean Hanff Korelitz | Wildly successful author Jacob Finch Bonner, who had stolen the plot of his book from a late student, fights to hide the truth from his fans and publishers, while trying to figure out who wants to destroy him.
Genre: Psychological suspense
Themes: Books about books; Dark academia
Storyline: Intricately plotted
Characterization: Sympathetic; Flawed; Well-developed
Mood: Disturbing; Menacing; Suspenseful
Style: Compelling; Stylistically complex; Witty; Fast-paced
Media Mentions: NBC: Today Show (Jun 2021) |
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| Sulari Gentill | In the Boston Public Library, on lockdown after a threat is identified, four strangers sitting at the same table pass the time in conversation—and it just so happens that one of them is a murderer, but which one?
Genre: Mysteries; Novels-within-novels; Australian fiction
Themes: Metafiction; Books about books; Dark academia
Storyline: Intricately plotted
Mood: Darkly humorous; Suspenseful
Style: Engaging; Stylistically complex; Witty; Intensifying
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| Maria Semple | When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her in this new novel from the author of This One is Mine.
Genre: Humorous stories; Page to screen; Relationship fiction; Adult books for young adults
Themes: Web of connections
Storyline: Intricately plotted
Mood: Sardonic; Offbeat
Style: Engaging; Witty; Fun read
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| Casey McQuiston | Cynical August starts to believe in the impossible when meets Jane on the subway, a mysterious punk rocker she forms a crush on, who is literally displaced in time from the 1970s and is trying to find her way back.
Genre :LGBTQIA romances; Romantic comedies; Contemporary romances; Book club best bets
Themes: Time slip; Chosen family
Identities: Bisexual; LGBTQIA+
Storyline: Intricately plotted; Own voices
Characterization: Likeable
Mood:Funny; Romantic; Moving; Offbeat
Style: Witty; Engaging
Media Mentions: CBC Radio (Canada): The Next Chapter (Jun 2022); NBC: Today Show (May 2021) |
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| Julia Seales | A young woman growing up in a well-to-do family in Regency England hides her obsession with true crime from her etiquette-obsessed social circle joins forces with a detective when a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball.
Genre: Mysteries; Cozy mysteries; Debut title
Storyline: Intricately plotted
Mood: Atmospheric; Suspenseful; Irreverent; Offbeat
Style: Evocative; Engaging; Witty; Fast-paced; Character-driven
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| Rupert Holmes |
Preparing you for an education you'll never forget, this introduction to The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of homicidal arts, follows students as they prepare for graduation by getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live. Illustrations.
Genre: Crime fiction; Historical fiction
Storyline: Intricately plotted; Multiple perspectives
Mood: Irreverent; Darkly humorous; Offbeat; Suspenseful
Style: Compelling; Wordplay-filled; Witty
Media Mentions: CBS: Mornings (Feb 2023)
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| Deanna Raybourn | Sent on an all-expense paid vacation to mark their retirement, four assassins discover they've been marked for death, forcing them to turn against their own organization and teach them what it really means to be a woman—and a killer—of a certain age.
Genre: Thrillers and suspense; Book club best bets
Themes: Shadow organizations
Storyline: Intricately plotted
Mood: Upbeat; Funny
Style: Witty; Richly detailed; Compelling; Strong sense of place
Media Mentions: ABC: Good Morning America (Dec 2022) |
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| Elle Cosimano |
When struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan is mistaken for a contract killer, she inadvertently accepts the offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet, discovering that crime in real life is a lot harder than fiction.
Genre: Humorous stories
Themes: Caper novels; Fish out of water
Mood: Darkly humorous; Offbeat; Suspenseful |
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| Jesse Q. Sutanto |
When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.
Genre: Cozy mysteries
Themes: Culinary mysteries
Identities: Asian
Storyline: Intricately plotted; Own voices
Characterization: Likeable; Flawed
Mood: Atmospheric; Funny
Style: Evocative |
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| Benjamin Stevenson | A self-published author of crime novel writing guides attends a reunion with his family of expert killers and investigates when a body is found outside in the snow as another storm approaches.
Genre: Mysteries; Australian fiction
Themes: Large cast of characters
Storyline: First person narratives
Mood: Funny |
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If you have any questions, please send an email to mwheelock@khcpl.org. |
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