Read On...Biography: Reading Lists For Every Taste (read On Series) [Paperback]

Categorizing hundreds of popular biographies according to their primary appealcharacter, story, setting, language, and moodand organizing them into thematic lists, this guide will help readers' advisors more effectively recommend titles.

Read On&Biography: Reading Lists for Every Tasteis that essential go-to readers' advisory guide, filling a gap in the growing readers' advisory literature with information about 450 biography titles, most published within the last decade, but also including some classic titles as well.

The book focuses on life stories written in the third person, with subjects ranging from individuals who lived in ancient times to the present-day, hailed from myriad nations, and gained fame in diverse fields. The contents are organized in order to facilitate identification of read-alikes and easy selection of titles according to appeal features such as character, story, language, setting, and mood. Written specifically with librarians and their patrons in mind, this readers' advisory title will be invaluable in public, high school, and college libraries.

This attractively bound bibliography has an annotated listing of about 450 biographies published within the last decade as part of theRead On Seriespublished by Libraries Unlimited. . . . Although this easy- and pleasant-to-use bibliography is meant primarily for public or school libraries, anyone interested in the field of current biography will enjoy perusing this book to discover new books for his personal reading pleasure. ARBA

Bottom line: Recommended if you need to update your collection, as these are quite readable, available, attractive, and relatively recent publications. Teacher Librarian

Another winner in the excellentRead On Series, this volume is the perfect complement to Rosalind Reisnel#†