Books: The Top 5 of the Top 5 With your hosts: Kaite Mediatore Stover on Horror Neil Hollands on Fantasy Rebecca Vnuk on Womens Fiction Barry Trott on.

Books: The Top 5 of the Top 5

With your hosts:

Kaite Mediatore Stover on Horror

Neil Hollands on Fantasy

Rebecca Vnuk on Women’s Fiction

Barry Trott on Crime/Mystery

David Wright on Humor

PLA 2010

Why the Top 5 of the Top 5?• Sometimes, we just need quick

answers for patrons who want “a good book”.

• Having a brain full of books in different genres makes the RA experience a lot less indimidating!

• See Public Libraries Article, “Jack of All Trades Reader’s Advisory”, Jan/Feb 2010 issue.

Today’s Categories Are…Of course, there are any number of genres we could have decided on as the “top 5”. It’s our party, so we say:

Fantasy Horror

Women’s FicCrimeHumor

Check in with us at the next PLA to see if we’ve changed our minds at

that time.

OK. We’ve lied a little…We really can’t shove 125 books at you in 75

minutes…but you can get all the info from us online, we swear.

What we can feature today in each genre:– 5up-and-comers

– 5 trends– Our favorites

• Handouts have the additional info: – Classics, Must-Know Books

Go to:http://shelfrenewal.com/pla2010presentation/

For the full and complete powerpoints/booklists!

Blood is the New Black:

Horror gets Hip

Kaite Mediatore Stover

Up and Comers

Fantasy: Neil Hollands

Up-and-Coming Fantasy Authors

Women’s Fiction: Rebecca Vnuk

Up-and-comers in Women’s Fiction

Crime: Barry Trott

Up-and-Coming crime fiction writers

David Wright

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Humor

Mysterious Trends: Speculative Crime Fiction

Historical mysteries

Contemporary Cozies

Foreign Crime

Police Procedurals

Women’s Fic Trends: Crafty Women

Humorous Women’s Fic

Chick Lit Grows Up: Bridget gets married, has a baby, gets

widowed…

Issue-Driven

Ensemble Fiction

Trends in Fantasy: Urban /paranormal

fantasy

Darker epic fantasy

Young adult fantasy

Cross-genre/interstitial work

Series launches

Horrific Trends: • Comic Horror: Dark and dry wit; just add

‘zombie’ and it’s funnier and scarier• Women as Evil Protagonists: Hell really hath

no fury like a woman mildly annoyed with a razor sharp knife and a syringe

• Your environment is trying to kill you: Cell phones, the family dog, germs, computer games, etc.

• Bloody fingers in other genres: Cross over into thrillers/mysteries/literary fiction

• Blood is the new Black: a timeless quality to horror: Everything old is new and scary again

Kaite’s Favorites

Neil’s Favorites

Rebecca’s Favorites

Barry’s Favorites

David’s Favorites