Did you know that Mead Public Library subscribes to a service that can give you book recommendations? It’s called Novelist, and it will let you enter the title of a book and then suggest “read-alikes” for that book! To give you an idea of what it can do for you, I’ve put a list of the current Top 5 Books in the Monarch System!

These are the five books with the longest waitlists in our library system. Under each one, you can see five more books that Novelist recommends. So get on these waitlists now – and then check out those other books while you wait!

It’s also always a good idea to check out our Lucky Day display when you stop by the library – we have special non-waitlist copies of new books and DVDs that are set aside for this display, so you might be able to skip the line if you’re lucky! (But read or watch it fast – they also can’t be renewed.)

Blue Moon by Lee Child

• Orphan X by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
• Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter
• The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie
• Adrenaline by Jeff Abbott
• Zero Day by David Baldacci

Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich

• What’s a Ghoul To Do? by Victoria Laurie
• What Looks Like Crazy by Charlotte Hughes
• Bad Manners by Marne Davis Kellogg
• Striving With Gods by Jo Bannister
• The Dangerous Edge of Things by Tina Whittle

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

• Family of Origin by C.J. Hauser
• The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
• The Children’s Crusade by Ann Packer
• Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Guardians by John Grisham

• Testimony by Scott Turow
• The Third Victim by Phillip Margolin
• The Second Chair by John T. Lescroart
• Memory Man by David Baldacci
• The Defense by Steve Cavanagh

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

• If You Want To Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais
• Home For Erring and Outcast Girls by Julie Kibler
• True Sisters by Sandra Dallas
• The Truth According To Us by Annie Barrows
• By Invitation Only by Dorothea Benton Frank