Fantasy fiction with strong female characters. For ages 9 and up.

Experience new places through characters from around the world!

Juvenile fiction books set at school. Follow along as the characters in these books make new friends, try new things, and get up to all kinds of shenanigans.

This list features main characters who are not quite human- warrior cats, talking owls, rats with swords, etc.

These books either feature Irish characters or take place in Ireland. Print, Large Print, and eBooks.

Ever read a book told through letters or diary entries? Epistolary novels can make a book and its characters feel exceedingly intimate. Add one of these to your reading list!

As in film westerns, the western novel has been revived in newer and unconventional ways in recent years. There has been the rise in popularity of the “weird western”: a hybrid genre which blends elements of the traditional western (a lawless frontier, a hero pit against all odds) with those of other types of fiction such as noir, mystery, horror and science-fiction (namely, the alternate Victorian universe known as steampunk).

Films within the noir genre are quite diverse, but have a few things in common: a dark and brooding atmosphere, a cynical protagonist with a complicated past, and plotlines that are fatalistic. Noir fiction has developed alongside these films since the 1930s and 1940s and has the same characteristics. Although classic noir novels by such authors as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett are detective stories, others are written in the form of psychological thrillers, and horror, western and science-fiction novels.

Favourite fiction from the 1910s through the 1940s.

Where fantasy and science fiction come together like clockwork!