What Should I Read Next?
Need something new to read? Check out some of our favorite book lists, book review, and book service sites for readers!
The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Teens can vote online between August 15th and Teen Read Week in October. The library will post a link to the voting page when the voting goes live.
Books and media on these lists have been selected for teens from 12 to 18 years of age, the award-winning titles and the titles on YALSA's selected lists span a broad range of reading and maturity levels. We encourage adults to take an active role in helping individual teens choose those books that are the best fit for them and their families.
Book Awards
Learn more about the Alex Awards, Edwards Award, Morris Award, Odyssey Award, Nonfiction Award, and Printz Award and read speeches from winners
Selected Book & Media Lists
Learn more about YALSA's Book and Media Lists, including Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults, Best Fiction for Young Adults, Fabulous Films for Young Adults, Great Graphic Novels for Teens, Outstanding Books for the College Bound, Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, Readers' Choice, and the Teens' Top Ten.
Summer Reading at New York State Libraries
Summertime is fun time for readers of all ages! Browse through our site for summer reading-related materials.
From the Book Report Network, the Teenreads site provides book review, feature articles, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, contests and more every week.
What is the next book in your favorite series? This site provides detailed listings of authors and characters/series in both publication order and chronological order. Search the site or browse by author or character/series.
YourNextRead: Book Recommendations (USA)
Enter a title, author, genre (or pick from the featured covers) and see the covers of other similar books. Links you to more information from Amazon.
Enter a book you like and the site will analyze their huge database of real readers' favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.
Whichbook enables millions of combinations of factors and then suggests books which most closely match your needs. Click to open up to 4 sliders and move the indicator to set your choices.
LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. Up to 200 books with a free account.
Free public domain audio books.
Guys Read is a web-based literacy program for boys founded by author and First National Ambassador of Young People's Literature Jon Scieszka. The mission of the site is to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.