Reader's Corner

Featured Resources (access from home with your library card)

Search the Library Catalog - The library's holdings, reviews of books, and bestseller lists
New Book List and New York Times Bestseller List - From our catalog, click on "Lists", and choose the list you want. Updated weekly. Log in to your account to place a hold.
Library Blog - Our librarians write about books they've read, book news, displays and events.
Downloadable E-Books and Audiobooks - Use your Harrison Library card to download books to your computer.
Novels set in Carmel
Carmel Area Authors
B ook club recommendations - From our librarians.

GoodReads - Share book recommendations.
Indie Bound - Independent booksellers bestsellers list.
LibraryThing Suggests - Enter a favorite title, and see what LibraryThing suggests!
Local Book Clubs - Maintained by Monterey County Free Libraries.
Major Literary Awards - From BookSpot.
New York Times Book Pages - Book reviews and bestseller lists.
Overbooked - Literary and genre fiction, lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books, and hot lists of hardcover American fiction.
Reading Group Guides - Discussion guides for many book club selections.
Reviews of Books - Lengthy reviews of popular recent books from major newspapers.

Addall - Compare prices from 41 online book dealers.
Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble - Online bookstores.
Bibliofind , Bookfinder, AbeBooks, Alibris or Chegg.com - All have new, used, rare and out of print books, including textbooks. Chegg.com rents textbooks, as well.
Open Library E-Books - Thousands of books that can be read in a variety of ways- on-line, as ePubs for your reading device, as PDFs. Some are downloadable to Kindles. Many are accessible to the sight-impaired through DAISY.
Project Gutenberg - 25,000 free books online.

Blue Letter Bible - Search or compare 18 versions of the Bible at once.
California Fiction - An index to fiction taking place in California. Search by author, title, locale, decade in which story takes place, or major characters. Maintained by the Los Angeles Public Library.
Poetry Tool - Find poems by category, occasion, title, author or first line.
Short Story Index - Find a short story in a collection, then check to see if your library owns it. Maintained by the Los Angeles Public Library.
Series and Sequels - Find the order of fiction series. Search by author, title, or character name.
Series and Sequels, Juvenile - Series order for children's and young adult books. Maintained by the Mid-Continent Public Library.
Shakespeare Online - Full text of all the plays and poems, searchable.

California Libraries Catalog - Search the catalogs of California libraries, including the libraries in our area.
Library of Congress
Public Libraries in California - Links to library homepages.
WorldCat - WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.