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Mainstream Fiction & Classics

This section includes information about all the novels that don't fit into any other category. That means all the novels that aren't mysteries, or romances, or science fiction, or historical novels.

Booklists

• African American Fiction
• Because it's Christmas
• Canada Reads 2008 
• Canadian Fiction Classics 
• Canadian History in Fiction 
• Family secrets
• First nations authors
• Five People You Meet in Heaven Read Alikes
• For the spirit: novels of self-discovery and inspiration
• Funny Fiction
• GLBT Fiction: Gay
• GLBT Fiction: Lesbian
• GLBT Fiction: Transgendered
• Hot new Canadian fiction 
• Literature in small bites - books under 200 pages
• Maritime Adventures
• Mobbed up: fiction about organized crime
• Novels Authored by Actors
• Real lives - fictional biographies about flesh-and-blood characters
• Sometimes You Need a Good Cry
• Street lit: Urban fiction
• The Arab World and Islam in Fiction
• The local connection: books set in the Windsor area 
• Writers from Africa
• Writers from Ireland
• Writers from Southeast Asia
• Young narrators

If you're looking for more suggestions of books to read, these Windsor Public Library resources may help:

• NoveList
• What do I read next?

Some books that offer suggestions are:

• Book Lust: Recommended Reading For Every Mood, Moment and Reason, 2003, and the follow-up book More Book Lust, 2005, both by Nancy Pearl.
• Book Sense Best Books: 125 Books Recommended by Independent Booksellers, 2004, ed. Mark Nichols
• Lost Classics, 2001

If you're still looking for more ideas, suggestions, or background information, check out the following recommended websites:

• Fresh fiction
• Adult Reading Round Table
• BookBrowse
• Book Reporter
• BookSpot.com
• Bookwire
• Good Reports - Canada's Premier Independent Book Site
• Internet Book List
• Overbooked
• Readers Advice - continuously updated
• Readers Read
• Readers' Robot
• Northwest Passages - Canadian authors
• Mathematical Fiction
• Street Fiction
• MetaCritic
• Quill & Quire Blog
• Series and sequels
• What's next. Series titles in correct order
• Mathematical Fiction
• Street Fiction
• MetaCritic

Please send your reading questions or comments to readingconnection@windsorpubliclibrary.com