Reading at Burlington Public Library

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction Awards

Biographies

How-to Resources

Decades of the 20th Century Resources

Book-Lovers Links

Reader's Alley

are available for your listening pleasure!
For more info...

If there is only one book you read this year, make it this one!
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Reserve your copy NOW!

Learn more about the selected novel, the author, and find interesting information about the main themes in the book. More...

Special Library Service for
BPL Readers!

Is a good book in your future? Ask the Good Book Psychic!

Get your personalized ‘reading’ by filling out a form about your reading interests and we’ll conjure up a list of up to 10 books that we think you’ll enjoy - both fiction and non-fiction! Forms are available at all Burlington Public Library locations or you may download them here.

Good Book Psychic Application
• Word - Download this form, use your computer to complete it, then e-mail it to us as an attachment to bookpsychic@bpl.on.ca.

Completed forms can be left at any BPL branch. You will hear from the Good Book Psychic within 3 weeks.

Good Book Psychic Blog
• Check out BPL's The Crystal Blog for weekly picks and great reading suggestions from library staff.

Beans 'n' Books

Join us monthly for our special blend of great books and coffee break. To see what you've missed, enjoy some great reading from our list of previously 'talked' books.

Online Book Clubs

This week's fiction selection Start reading books in your e-mail. Each day we’ll send you a 5-minute excerpt of a book. By the end of the week, you’ll have read 2-3 chapters. There's a new book starting each Monday. More…

Engaging Ideas & Meet the Author Programs

BPL hosts 2 regular meet the author series. Check What's On @ your library every month and join us at Central Library for these fascinating talks and the chance to get up close and personal with contemporary writers of both fiction and non-fiction books.

are available for YOUR book club!

We have a variety of excellent literary selections available that are certain to generate plenty of discussion. More info...

For our biography readers... browse our list of many of our recent biographies of notable and not-so-notable lives. Then link to the BPL catalogue to reserve - and wait for a call.

Featuring Canadian
Award Winning Books

The 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner is Linden MacIntyre for The Bishop's Man.
• Official Site
• Previous Award Winners

OLA's 2009 Evergreen Reading Award winner is The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway.
• Announcement
• Nominees for 2009

The 2009 Governor General's Literary Award for English language fiction winner is Kate Pullinger for The Mistress of Nothing.
• Official Site - for other award winners too!
• Previous GG Award Winners for Fiction

More Award Winning Books and Authors!

Need Help Finding a Good Book?

The Library has a number of Internet databases that can help you find your next book to read. NoveList Plus and What do I Read Next? enable you to enter your favourite author to find other authors you might enjoy, or search by type of book. We also have a poetry database, and databases with a focus on literature criticism.
Go to Internet Databases - Books & Literature.

Top 100s...

•	100 Most Important Canadian Books
•	100 Greatest Novels of all Time - from The Guardian (UK)
•	BBC's The Big Read - Top 100 Books
•	The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels
•	HRF Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books
•	CounterPunch's Top 100 Non-Fiction Works of the 20th Century
•	OCLC Top 1000 Held by Libraries
•	David Pringle's 100 Best Science Fiction Novels
•	Dr. Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Magazines For Everyone!

We subscribe to a wonderful variety of magazines - for browsing or borrowing. Check to see whether specific issues are available or place holds by linking to the BPL catalogue.
Here's a complete list of circulating magazines at BPL.

Canada Reads 2010

And the winner is... Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner! More...