Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1978-1998

by Joyce Saricks and Nancy Pearl

Recommending books to readers of contemporary mainstream, or literary, fiction is perhaps the most challenging of all endeavors for readers' advisors. Pearl and her co-authors attempt to ease the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156308659X
• ISBN13: 9781563086595
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Unique and Valuable Reference

My local library has just acquired a copy of Now Read This for reference only, and I'm tempted to buy my own copy, even though the book is costly. In its annotations I can find fiction most to my taste. In addition, it provides guidance to selections for my book discussion group, as well as for the eight book reviews I write annually. The four categories are especially useful to me, since I found I have been reading in only one, and now will be sampling the other three. This provision of Now Read This will be of inestimable value to librarians in their efforts to help patrons.