Reading Recommendations

• Try our Rock Island Library BookMate service, your personal reading matchmaker! Answer a few questions on our form. Within a week, we'll send you a list of five books chosen just for you!
• Ask our staff for great ideas! We can help you find new authors, read-a-likes to authors you already follow, and  figure out what order a book falls in a series.
• Visit our Reference Desk at Main for help finding the book you want, or call 309-732-7341.

Need Ideas for the Booklovers on your giving lists?

We've assembled a number of links below. We'll add more as we find them!

• 2019 Great Graphic Novels for Teens

• Reading Rockets Holiday Buying Guide for ages 0-12
• Read It Forward Gift Guide for all ages from Penguin Random House
• NPR Book Concierge guide to great reads of 2018
• New York Times Notable Children's Books of 2018 (Use our online subscription to read this without paywalls!)
• Goodreads Choice Awards (Best books of 2018, as chosen by Goodreads subscribers)

 

Bookletters

Use our free Bookletters service to get free emails about new books, audiobooks, and DVDs.

• Sign up for the lists you want, and unsubscribe anytime
• See something you like? Search our catalog right from the newsletter!

Bookletters also offers book awards lists, "As Seen on TV" book recommendations, and lists of books in a series.

NoveList Plus and Novelist Plus K-8 Reader Services 

Looking for a good book? Log into NoveList Plus from home with your Rock Island Library card or from any Rock Island Library computer. 

• Novelist Plus to find books you might enjoy in both fiction or nonfiction
• Novelist Plus K-8 to find great children's books

 

Looking for something that's not in our catalog?

Our staff can request a special InterLibrary Loan for you. Call our Reference Desk at 309-732-7341 or email us. 
 

Know someone who needs talking books?  

Connect to the Illinois talking books program for persons with visual or physical impairments.