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Staff Recommendations

Let IPL's expert staff help find the next great read! Fill out a short form and an IPL librarian will send customized list of 5 books based on the answers. 

Find Me Five

Click on an audience to get started:

Adult

Teen

Tween

Kids



Surprise Me

Not sure what to read or watch next? Choose Surprise Me! An IPL librarian will be happy to pick out some recommendations. Fill out the short form and 5-20 titles will be chosen and placed on hold for pick up at the preferred library branch location.


Select Reads

Select Reads offers over forty free email subscriptions newsletters, including a variety of fiction genres, non-fiction and movies. Once a month, a newsletter goes out that will notify the subscriber of new and popular titles at Irving Public Library. See an interesting title? Click on it right in the newsletter to place it on hold in the library's catalog.

Book Alerts
Award Winners
Best Sellers

Search for Reading Recommendations

  1. SelectReads
  2. SelectReads is a free newsletter subscription service that notifies you every month about new and interesting books and DVDs at the Irving Public Library. Choose from over forty newsletters of popular genres, non-fiction, and media.
  3. NoveList
  4. NoveList provides "read-alikes" for popular authors, book discussion guides, series information, and other details on 176,000 fiction titles.

Find a Great Read

  1. Library Reads
  2. This website highlights new books by up-and-coming authors as selected by public librarians around the nation. 
  3. Online Book Clubs
  4. Receive a five-minute selection from a chapter of a book via email every Monday-Friday. There are multiple genres to choose from!