The following reading lists were compiled by Durham County Library staff. Enjoy!
- Genre-Benders (pdf) – books that blur the lines
- Music Biographies (pdf)
- NOT Recommended Reading (pdf) – check out books your librarian didn’t like!
- TV Series – reading suggestions based on your favorite shows
Other Reading Lists
These are our older reading lists, which we’re in the process of updating. They may include books we no longer own, and they may be missing newer titles for these categories, but you’re welcome to peruse them anyway.
- Author Lists for categories that are hard to find on the shelf or in our catalog
- Award Winners
- Classic Fiction
- December Holiday Tales
- Digging Dirt 101:General Gardening Resources
- Digging Deeper: Selected Gardening Resources for Carolina Gardeners
- Divining America – Religion in American History
- Durham Potpourri
- High School Students
- The History of Our Future
- Inspirational Romances
- It’s all Greek and Roman and Egyptian to Me
- Jewish Literature
- Legal Fiction
- Medieval Mysteries
- Native American Fiction
- North Carolina Fiction 1901-1980
- Political Fiction
- Positively Eerie: Spooky Stories
- Rainbow Reading: For Teens
- Rainbow Reading: Gay
- Rainbow Reading: Lesbian
- Sister Acts
- A Taste of Adventure
- Transgender & Bisexual
- Urban Fiction – African American Authors
- Who in the World? Fictional Biographies
- Women of Faith
- Wrong Next Door: Elves, Beasts, Spirits and Other Dubious Neighbors
- Your Passage to India